Ask HN: Review my bootstrapped startup, Quantonomics
Published in 2011, this chronicle by @didigogo details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing.
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
If I'm going to take a service seriously, I don't want to spot spelling errors within 20 seconds of hitting the homepage.
stradegies->strategies
That said, interesting idea using JS to create buying/selling patterns and test them against historic data. That could be handy, if not just geeky fun :)
http://quantonomics.com/
Looks kind of neat, although being in the middle of 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street', and being pretty convinced of the "buy an index fund and hold it" strategy, I don't think I'm the target market.
Interesting concept. Some major JS errors going on all over the site which doesn't give me much confidence on the accuracy of the experiments. Needs some major work but the concept overall is solid.
Here's a small change you can make to engage users:
Tell them benefits not features. Users will like that more. Make all the bullet points speak for how awesome your product is!
Top left: fix the typo in the most important part of the page - the title! (Should be 'Quantonomics')
Please checkout my new startup and let me know what you think. Its a marketplace to buy, sell, trade stock applications.
Homepage: http://quantonomics.com
Example Source: http://quantonomics.com/community/forum/3-trading-systems
Marketplace: http://quantonomics.com/applications
Documentation: http://quantonomics.com/documentation