I'm the founder of Tiingo and just saw a huge influx of users! Thank you HN!
I 100% agree with you. The podcasts are there for educational purposes and I try my best to emphasize the limits of quantitative modeling and backtesting. I was a former quant trader and saw experienced people make the same mistakes.
My goal on the site is therefore give tools, but not recommendations. It's the reason I don't associate with brokerages either, I want the data to be unbiased as possible.
My hope is that newcomers and experienced individuals alike come onboard and listen to the podcasts that emphasize just this.
In terms of pricing strategy, I will be enforcing a minimum $1/month floor coming in the next couple weeks.
But either way, people deserve so much better and I'm going to try my best to make sure the tools and information remain intellectually honest.
-Rishi