Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and various things.
Unfortunately despite the insane amount of time I've spend on it (many, many weeks with 20 hours on it) I've lost interest. It's just so hard to find quality stock/financial data that allows commercial use which I'd need to put this in the app store and charge for it. I pay a few hundred a month now for data that always has issues, APIs that don't work consistently, staff that's unresponsive/rude when I tell them their API doesn't work or is wrong. I've dealt with 3 stock data providers already and I still had to build a scraping engine to get certain bits of data. The real providers charge thousands per month for this data for good APIs, which I can't afford. All that and only for US data. International data was another headache I gave up on.
So yea, it's not a fun space to be in. If there was just a single API that was solid, worked and was not insanely expensive this would be a joy to work on. Polygon.io is the best API for this data but they don't understand indie developers and were telling me they had an amazing new plan for developers that was still close to $1k/mo.
Now I'm wondering if I should try to sell it to someone with more resources to build out.
Hi,
Would you be open to some collaboration? We are developing an app for net worth tracking (Sumio.app) and bought access to APIs with stocks, ETFs, crypto, and exchange rates... We are indie developers too, our ultimate goal is to create a privacy-first mobile app for financial planning. Technically we are competitors to Stocketa, but maybe we could find a way to collaborate.
Best,
Lukas
It's called Stocketa. Here's the site: https://stocketa.com/
and I opened up a few hundred Testflight spots if you want to play with it:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/3dZwTVhS
Unfortunately despite the insane amount of time I've spend on it (many, many weeks with 20 hours on it) I've lost interest. It's just so hard to find quality stock/financial data that allows commercial use which I'd need to put this in the app store and charge for it. I pay a few hundred a month now for data that always has issues, APIs that don't work consistently, staff that's unresponsive/rude when I tell them their API doesn't work or is wrong. I've dealt with 3 stock data providers already and I still had to build a scraping engine to get certain bits of data. The real providers charge thousands per month for this data for good APIs, which I can't afford. All that and only for US data. International data was another headache I gave up on.
So yea, it's not a fun space to be in. If there was just a single API that was solid, worked and was not insanely expensive this would be a joy to work on. Polygon.io is the best API for this data but they don't understand indie developers and were telling me they had an amazing new plan for developers that was still close to $1k/mo.
Now I'm wondering if I should try to sell it to someone with more resources to build out.