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Comment by IronKettle | Hacker News Reader

Related, kinda:

Robinhood seems to be pulling in a lot of different directions and there's all these "early access" features that never seem to actually, well, launch.

I've now signed up for:

* Web access (otherwise it's mobile-only)

* Options trading

* And now, cryptocurrency trading (because why not)

and I haven't gotten access to any of them yet, even though Robinhood for web has been in "early access" for quite awhile now.

So I signed up for this, but I have very little faith that I'll get access any time soon (even with the vague promise of early February).

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I remember being in a startup that promised features before they could deliver, and how it was a symptom of shoddy business practices in general. So when I consider the fact that I have a decent amount of money tied up in Robinhood, and I see them promising features without delivering, I get uneasy.

Otherwise it's a great product. I'm really only writing this in the hope that a Robinhood person catches eye on this comment and takes it to heart.

I’m using web access and it’s great- they just haven’t fully rolled it out yet I suppose.

I'm really confused about why web access hasn't launched yet? Would think that is the easiest of them all and entirely in their own fate. Options and crypto seem like much more complicated endeavors but a website, ffs.

people will not spend more money trading on a website. not having one is an inconvenience. options and crypto are more places for people to put their money

I blame Apple. No, really. When Robinhood first launched it was intentionally targeted at iOS users, hence the almost automatic focus of building an app vice a mobile friendly progressive web app. Then the push to target Android users - but since "we do apps" is already the corporate mindset, the next thing is not a web page, but yet another app. Eventually they get around to the web.

A company I left a few years ago went down the same path.

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