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From the website:

"Quant Competitions Achievement

In 2024, I achieved 7th place at Quantiacs, a global quantitative trading competition. With a background in financial software, I built AIvestor to democratize AI-powered investing tools that were previously only available to institutions."

I have no idea of the legitimacy of Quantiacs, but for someone with these claims what they are selling is extremely unfaithful. Anyone with a sufficient knowledge of markets would understand the issues with what is being presented on the "portfolio" page, and the approach is bunk.

It appears that the product is based on some vibe-coded slop (https://github.com/LaurentiuGabriel/gpt-trading-agent). I personally would feel bad even thinking about trying to sell something like this to people.

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This post went a bit too far with the accusations and therefore I am responding. First of all, I am not sure why you felt the need to search for me on the Internet, considering the original post has nothing to do with this SaaS. Do you really have that much free time and you don't know how to fill the gaps that you start researching and potentially doxx people?

Quantiacs is absolutely a legit competition. If you are interested in quant trading it's impossible not to have heard about it. Here I can see that you have absolutely no clue about this field, which is fine, but don't act as if you're a market guru which "knows about current markets".

I don't know what knowledge you have about the current markets, these stocks shown on the landing page are picked by the agent. The SaaS I built is built on the OSS chatbot I created. I host it on a machine I pay for, I change the models frequently and you get support for any technical issues. People can still use the OSS agent, but they need to host it themselves, use their own API keys, do changes themselves etc.

I have no problem selling something that works for me and that I worked hard to bring up and I don't care what a random on the internet has to say, but do not spread misinformation about something that you have no idea on how it works.

You literally have a link to your Github on your SaaS product - are you that dense? You included your whole profile on there. It took me no more than 5 minutes to click it, see that you have a repo related to your product, and view one source file of AI slop.

Anyway, I stand by what I said. Advertising with "Look, AI picked my stocks and number went up" is disingenuous.

There's no reference to AIvestor in the article I shared. You decided to dig through Google, GH and what not to find stuff that could potentially be used against me personally and you really failed, exposing yourself as a rando sore loser on the Internet.

That's correct, there is no reference to AIvestor in the article you shared. However, the parent comment of this thread, the one I responded to and the one you are responding to, shares the link to your AI slop product. Once again, I did not have to dig through Google at all - it's all available on your product page. You're repeatedly proving how dense you are.

"Democratize" in 2026 means "sell".

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