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Looking good. A couple of UI suggestions:

- Look into making the percentage editable after you've added it to your portfolio. Ideally you shouldn't have to delete and re-enter to change that.

- If the Timetric API allows you to theme the graph to light-on-dark, it would look a lot more at-home with the rest of the site.

- If I'm not logged in, where are my temporary portfolios? I tried to name two of them "test" in a row and was informed there was already one by that name, but there appears to be nowhere to access these. I'd suggest simply not prompting unauthenticated users to name portfolios at all until they log in.

Thanks for this! The last thing you point out is a really good catch.

I went to all the trouble of creating an interesting test portfolio before finally getting told that this tool proves useless to me because it uses Flash. Please at least say up front that you require Flash, so I don't waste my time. Better yet, just like you created an impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML, please consider making an impressive interface for viewing a portfolio using only HTML.

> impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML

They didn't do that either. "Sorry, Stocx requires your browser to support javascript". It's not hard to make two text fields and a submit button work, and that should have been revision one.

While I do tend to believe AJAX sites should try to work in browsers that only do HTML, I wouldn't put that anywhere near on the level of "don't require Flash". Almost any modern browser, including FOSS browsers, supports JavaScript and AJAX. That just leaves out text-mode browsers and paranoid NoScript users. :) Requiring Flash, on the other hand, leaves out people like me who refuse the proprietary Flash plugin, as well as many users on smartphones and other platforms that don't have Flash plugins.

So, my first reaction, is I wouldn't use it, but I don't own stocks so that is not a surprise. My second reaction is who would use it and I get stuck there too.

The front page is not that valuable, because it is relatively easy to add up to 100. The second page where it aggregates the portfolio into one graph seems useful, but in order for a user to actually use that page, they would have to commit to a portfolio on the front page. This confusing me because I thought the whole point was to get information while you were building portfolios.

You should consider moving that graph of the combined portfolios to the front page under where you enter the stocks. This way when people are adding and subtracting stocks they can actually see what impact it has on the aggregate and then maybe your site can be useful for that.

Overall, I am instinctually concerned about your site because it seems like you have put a lot of time and effort into something that doesn't do much, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do with a start up. Generally you want to put very little effort into a site that does a lot!

Actually, this didn't take too long to build on top of our platform, which we built for Timetric (http://timetric.com/) - that's where the vast majority of our effort has gone.

I couldn't enter the stock symbol for Sirius XM - SIRI.

When I got to the R it seemed like it would autocomplete to a random stock.

FF 3.5.8, Win XP

Thanks for checking it out. Sirius isn't an S+P 500 stock (we started it with a pretty restricted universe of equities, the S+P 500 from the US and the FTSE 350), but we'll see if we can get the autocomplete to behave a bit better; it's pulling the top element off the list when the autocomplete closes.

Here's my portfolio

50% Google

15% Nasdaq

53% Microsoft

After 4 Years I finished with 14% increasing, going through picks of 60% and loses of %37.

Good app and a very useful one. I don't invest, but I like stats and to play with numbers.

The leaderboard is also useful to know combination that are successful.

Just one notice: The %number are always in Red, make them in green when there's a win and Red when there's a loss

uh....118%?

I think he meant 35, not 53

yes, but i don't have the edit button right now

1) At first, the Clear Button is at right and the Create is at left. When you click "Create" you have a popup. The cancel is at left and the Create is at right. You should try to put all your creation button at the same position... all right or all left and not changing them because it's confuse and error prone.

2) Font is very weird here : http://goo.gl/wFyS

The .cx TLD has negative connotations for me. I don't know if this will be a relevant issue for your intended audience.

(I'm just about old enough to remember That Site, yes. I think our intended audience hasn't spent quite so long in the dingier corners of Slashdot threads; I hope so, anyway!)

As long as you have no animal references in the domain name, I think you're fine.

Here ya go http://opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZpZXdz...

Thanks!

(We wanted a short URL for Twitter, which straight away sends you off into the land of weird country-code domains...)

Cool url. Loads slowly. Visually a little too shiny for my taste (can we bury the wet look already?). I'm not target audience so I didn't really know what it would be useful for.

Minor bug report: you can add the same stock twice, and it gets two separate entries rather than adding to the same entry.

Thanks - yes, this is an error. We'll fix it shortly!

I typed in TM, but didn't get Toyota.

Similar over here: tried "IVV" but didn't get the ETF I expected

At the moment we're only doing FTSE 350 (London) and S+P 500 (US); we'll be adding more stocks, instruments and ETFs soon. What ones would you all be most interested in?

In addition to ETFs, I would also like to be able to add mutual funds. Specifically, those offered by Vanguard.

FF 3.5.8 Win7, can't add anything. Enter ticker, percent, click plus sign, nothing.

We think that's because you managed to beat the autocomplete :) Try again now?

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