NVST.ly - Social Investing

Hey BobbyT, 2% (of 90) have rated 1 star but only you have left a review, so without knowing the context or genuineness of the other, the claim of mediocracy can be chalked up to one mans opinion. Trying to copy other platforms? Is this what Facebook did after MySpace? Is this what Google did after Yahoo? See where I'm going with this brother? Innovators innovate, we improve on, and we create. Sure we take inspiration from those that came before us. SpaceX and the other examples I gave were not the first, but they are the best- and that is what this brand strives for. We surround ourselves with those better than us so we all become better, and that's how I would describe our team at NVSTly- which is a word play of "invest" as a stock ticker and making it and adjective- to answer your curiosity of what it means. NVSTly is a Trade Hub product, just 1 of many. We don't maintain with any competitors, we lead. There's been many that have tried and unfortunately failed, and I do mean unfortunately as competition for me personally is what drives me. I welcome it, I embrace it, it is truly at the core of what keeps me going and always progressing. There's no sad stories here, the testimonials and reviews contradict that to the fullest. The site is laggy- an unfortunate circumstance of developing in public, we just never stop. Believe it or not, I personally am the most frustrated when I experience the app being slow to load, it eats at me. We want to display real-time trades and finance data, the issue with this is we have to fetch ALL that data when a user visits lets say the trades page, where we fetch 5 trades at a time and the market data for each of those unique tickers, then calculate the real-time profit/loss of the position. 1-3 seconds to load all this does seem slow, but you know that data is only 1-3 seconds old. Now we can cache this data and load everything in milliseconds, but as a daytrader what good is that data even if it's only 1 minute old? Volatility can be a hell of a thing in 60 seconds. After recording this video, I've noticed something we can improve on- when trades have been loaded on the trades page for the first time, and you click on one to see the insights, then go back to the trades page- why are we fetching all that data again when we already did just previously? I've passed this along to our dev team and suggested them to cache already loaded data, if a new trades has been submitted during the time after being on trades page then we should fetch that separately, 1-2 new trades should theoretically load quicker. https://streamable.com/0zjsio To address getting something for free, our entire app is free. As we continue to build in public, PRO membership isn't even required for real-time trades feed. Sounds like your on our email list- have you ever seen us push member subscriptions? We don't do this for money, I firmly believe if you put out a banger product and good user experience the growth of that product will provide monetization opportunities eventually. And because our app is free and we don't paywall our product (as the only few of our competitors left do) we're on a tight bootstrapped budget, resources and data aren't free. But as we continue to improve interactive responsiveness, when we are able to afford that superior streamlined data, you can bet on us putting that revenue back into the platform to continue exceeding user expectations. Apologies for the novel here, I take my work and passion serious. Negative experiences is fuel for my drive for excellency in what I do. Whether your review is genuine or not, as our main competitor just replied to one of my reviews 2.45 hours after your review, which could be coincidental but seeing as how we haven't had a new review in days I suspect your account may be his- if I'm wrong about this then I sincerely apologize. If you are or were a genuine user, check back with us in a week or less and you'll notice something has been added or changed, we're always rolling out items on our never ending to do list.