Been thinking about this a lot for anything where the core pitch depends on numbers - finance, health, fitness, anything with metrics attached.
You can publish real data, real logs, whatever proof exists - but a brand-new account with no history saying "trust me, the numbers are real" is exactly what a scam would also say. The data being genuinely real doesn't automatically solve that problem.
For anyone who's launched something like this - how did you actually get people to believe you early on? Public/verifiable data, third-party validation, just time and reputation compounding, something else entirely? Genuinely curious what's actually worked for people here versus what sounds good in theory.
Starting with my small journey, I'm a software engineer, and a jobless trader on the side. I traded manually for a while, and the strategies were usually fine - I was the broken part. Panic-closed winners, revenge-traded after losses, moved stop losses mid-trade. Wiped accounts more than once, not because the edge didn't exist, because I couldn't execute it without emotion taking over.
That's what became RichGoon - automates backtested strategies on your own broker so execution isn't a decision you make in the moment anymore. One of the strategies on it has helped users pass real prop firm evaluations
Curious what else is out there in this space, and figured this could be a useful thread for anyone building something trading/fintech-adjacent.
I'll go first: I'm building RichGoon, automates backtested trading strategies on your own broker instead of manually executing trades. Built it after blowing a few accounts trading manually myself - one of the strategies on it has since helped users pass real prop firm evaluations (240 trades, 93.3% win rate, full trade log public, not a screenshot).
Launching on PH Sept 22. https://www.richgoon.app/
