akrai

Hey Hacker News!

My friend and I have been working on a comprehensive investment research platform — Feather.

We launched our waitlist on HN two weeks ago and received lots of feedback. With this in mind, we went back to the drawing board, wrote thousands of lines of code, and added a bunch of features. We’re now thrilled to share what we’ve been working on.

Our updated platform covers 48,000 companies, 180,000 options, 3,500,000 bonds, 3,000 commodities, 11,000 institutions, 10,000 individuals, and 24 countries. Feather allows you to discover, analyze, and identify winning trades ahead of the market.

Excited to re-launch Feather’s early-access waitlist with revamped features and share with the HN community.

Check it out!

https://try-feather.com

Hey,

Wanted to share what my friend and I built — Feather. It provides investors with all imaginable financial data, without breaking the bank. Effectively 90 percent of the Bloomberg Terminal, at 5 percent of the price.

We just opened sign ups for early access — all you need to sign up is your email address. We’ll open access to the software in order of sign ups, and we’d love to have you onboard.

Check it out!

https://try-feather.com

Much has been made of the move to remote teams, especially after the coronavirus pandemic. The pros and cons of remote teams are hotly debated, and their impacts are especially relevant to startups.

Remote work’s benefits to startups include hiring competitiveness — engineers increasingly prefer remote work, and more talent is available by considering remote employees. However, in-person work arguably enables more effective collaboration, spontaneous idea generation, work ethic, and creativity — items which are of top priority to startups where every bit of increased productivity and performance makes the difference between success and failure.

While I of course do not expect any conclusive decision either way, I want to open the floor to debate on this topic. What, to you, is better — building a startup remotely, or in-person?

Work is shifting online, and employers and employees now have access to opportunities they’ve never had access to before. In a way, the new remote work economy is the greatest democratization of economic opportunity in history — no matter where you are, you can access the best jobs (or, if you are an employer, the best talent), and it’s now commonly acceptable to have such remote work. What are the best startup opportunities to thrive in this new economy?

Anything, with unlimited time and resources, you would like to build.

Has to be in the realm of possibility (ie. within the laws of physics) but that’s the only restriction.

Preferably with code, but can be anything else too.

Surprise us.

I’ve been working a lot with AWS, and increasingly feel it’s excessively complicated and overbloated for a vast majority of use cases. Is it a good idea to make a simpler version of AWS with only simple CRUD functionality, authentication, and a few other essential, easy-to-use features?

Hi! I’ve been curious about this for a while now, and have spent quite a bit of time reading research reports about it. After pouring through statistics and studies, I’ve decided to ask some entrepreneurs directly for input. So, here it goes. As an emerging business, where do you keep your cash reserves? In a bank savings account, in a money market fund, invested in equities (I imagine this is for larger businesses holding the reserves for longer periods of time), or somewhere else?