building @tryalphatrade - a trading app built for traders, not their fees
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The trading apps of today are too focused on earning fees, increasing platform addictiveness, and preying on vulnerable newcomers by creating pyramid schemes disguised as referral trees (the data shows retail users by and large lose money while their volume enriches referrers, platforms, KOLs, etc - often these personalities "flex" their fabricated PnLs while majority of their income is from referral fees). Retail was the loser of this cycle while platforms like @Pumpfun and @tryfomo were the winners.
The platforms are to blame for creating this machiavellian charade. Our current market conditions are a direct result of their greed.
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the goat is back when we needed him most 🙏
I made a list of great startups to join. It's called the Breakout List.
The list has 92 companies. These are the 20 with 25 or fewer employees:
- Hone (@moritz_stephan, @CarloWillem, @oqbrady)
- Normal (@ansonyuu, @hudzah)
- Standard Intelligence (@G413N, @devanshpandey)
- Tacit Labs (@ninklefitz, @AmDroste)
- American Terawatt (@atroyn, @rslparker, @aranibatta)
- Conduit (@clemvonstengel, @riopopper)
- Convergent (Omkar Savant, Vivek Katara, @debnilsur)
- Core Automation (@MillionInt, @_arohan_)
- Engram (@dan_biderman, @EyubogluSabri, @realJessyLin)
- Instinct (@noahrshinn)
- Keenable (@styskin, Matthias Petri)
- Lumaril (Mark Elliot, Ben Duffield)
- Neion Bio (@Dimkell, Sam Levin)
- Pangram Labs (@max_spero_, @bradley_emi)
- Quadrillion (@echinaceous)
- Re (@karnsaroya, @AnandDhillon, @thecliffwhite, @benaneesh)
- Ricursive (@annadgoldie, @Azaliamirh)
- Sail Research (@neilmovva, @blintzbase)
- Trajectory (@rronak_, @michaelelabd, @QuantumArjun)
- Watney Robotics (Sean Cheong, Ryan Gannon)
Picks from Elad Gil, Charlie Songhurst, Keith Rabois, Mike Vernal, Alana Goyal, Sonya Huang, Ramtin Naimi, Marc Bhargava, Cory Levy, Aashay Sanghvi, Konstantine Buhler, John Luttig, Varun Gupta, Ray Tonsing and Avichal Garg.
Disclosure: I'm a small investor in American Terawatt, Convergent, Standard Intelligence and Trajectory (in this post), and in Factory, Physical Intelligence and SF Compute (elsewhere on the list). I didn't vote.
The full list is on Breakout List.
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At @tryalphatrade we've always believed in performance over everything else, especially since trading apps have pages with hundreds of UI updates per second.
Our investment in building with Swift from Day 1 has paid off. Alpha's performance benchmarks dominate both @fomo and @Pumpfun across the board.
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Officially launching our beta today!
Alpha is a native crypto trading app allowing users to trade seamlessly across 40+ different chains. Check out our website for more info tryalpha.xyz
We are a team of 1 entirely focused on building + improving the product, so still working through growth motions (will focus more on this once we're on the App store). Right now distribution is primarily to friends & family.
Feedback greatly appreciated!
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The reality of building for the App Store is waiting for 3 weeks to hear back only to get rejected for some mundane reason
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Kudos to @fomo for pulling off a non-traditional domain (.family) at their scale. You almost never see companies of this size successfully build their brand around a TLD like that.
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At @tryalphatrade we've added a "Memes" tab to tokenized stock pages (+ a dedicated sheet) to find stock paired tokens like @ArtificiallyInu more easily!
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Lowkey I didn't know you could just casually rename bodies of waters and shit with a single signature
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tiktok gen z influencers are saying texting/posting in all lowercase is cringe now? wtf do kids these days know about proper grammar smh
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Web scraping is so much easier nowadays, I feel like we need to rethink the web to make it a more agent accessible plane. Most online traffic now is scrapers/bots.
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IMHO Paper will overtake Figma in a few years. In an AI + coding agent driven landscape there's no shot unstructured canvas model survives. The agents need to work and generate within structured systems only.
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apparently github outage fix took twice as long because dev had to wait for their claude usage limit to reset
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a token symbol written in Hebrew turned one of our push notifications back to front
took an afternoon in the string builder before we worked out the string was never the problem
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