Building Obelion Terminal: It Started With a Blueprint, Not a Codebase

When I first started working on Obelion Terminal, I wasn't thinking about which technologies to use or how many features we could squeeze into a trading platform.

I was thinking about the experience.

I'd look at existing charting platforms and notice little things that could be better. Things that might seem insignificant individually, but become frustrating when you're using a platform every single day.

For example, why should someone have to constantly work around UTC when their natural working timezone is different? Why should adding an indicator across multiple charts feel like repetitive work? Why should mobile chart interactions feel like an afterthought?

These were the kinds of questions I wanted to address.

I put together the initial blueprint and started mapping out how I wanted the platform to work. Once we had a direction, we assembled a distributed development team with people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, and Ukraine.

Managing a team across different countries wasn't always easy. Communication, expectations, and having everyone understand the bigger picture became just as important as the development itself.

As the product grew, so did the ambition. We eventually reached a point where existing scripting capabilities weren't enough for what we wanted to offer, so we took on the challenge of developing our own scripting language.

More recently, we also adopted AI much more aggressively. My partners pushed for this shift as development demands increased. We realized that if the industry was changing how quickly products could be built, we needed to adapt too.

Looking back, one thing stands out to me: the original vision mattered just as much as the execution.

A startup doesn't need to build everything at once. But it does need to understand what problem it's trying to solve and why its decisions matter to the people using the product.

That's what we've tried to do with Obelion.

We're now bringing that vision to life, and I'm genuinely interested in hearing what other founders and traders think.

You can explore the platform here: https://obelion.net