Hey Hunters, I'm Josh. Built an AI quant trading desk that runs locally

First post on PH. I'm Josh, a senior software engineer (16+ years) and active options trader. Been building AutoQuant for the last few months, launching here on June 30.

Quick background: I trade credit spreads and sell premium myself, and got tired of every algo tool being either a black-box cloud SaaS (Composer, TrendSpider) or a blank IDE that assumed I had a quant team (QuantConnect, Lean). AutoQuant is the in-between. Desktop app, AI Loop that iteratively writes and refines strategies for me, runs locally so my data stays mine, and I can drop into Python whenever.

What's there today:

- AI Loop for equity, options, and cross-sectional strategies

- Monte Carlo significance testing (p-values, deflated Sharpe) so I can tell real edge from overfitting

- Visual Flow Builder for non-coders

- Paper and live trading via Alpaca

Excited to be here. Would love to meet other indie builders in fintech, dev tools, or AI. Also genuinely curious: what's worked for you in pre-launch hustle that wasn't obvious from the PH guides?

Prelaunch page if curious: https://www.producthunt.com/products/autoquant