With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP
Hello HN crowd. I worked on this project on weekends and evenings. I'm excited I made it into a presentable MVP, and it is so satisfying. I would like to get some honest feedback from this great community. I made https://freeoptionscreener.com/, to scratch a personal itch. I myself trade options as a hobby, and I didn't find a screener that satisfies my need to be able to explore raw options data freely and without preset constraints. So I made this app that allows playing with options market data and extract interesting opportunities. The techs used: - Laravel + Jquery +…
With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP launched on August 26, 2021 with 501 votes, #16 of 2,953 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Free Options Screener is a web application that lets retail traders explore and analyze raw options market data without preset filters or constraints. Built for hobbyist options traders, it provides customizable screening tools to identify trading opportunities by working directly with market data. The tool runs on Laravel and jQuery, sources data from the Tradier API, and costs five dollars monthly to operate.
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Hello HN crowd. I worked on this project on weekends and evenings. I'm excited I made it into a presentable MVP, and it is so satisfying. I would like to get some honest feedback from this great community. I made https://freeoptionscreener.com/, to scratch a personal itch. I myself trade options as a…
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