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AlBentley

38 karma · joined November 17, 2014

Founder Simply Wall St
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AlBentley··on Apps SDK
exactly. Booking.com etc can just use OpenAI APIs to enable a similar voice/ chat interface on top of their search, and then the UX is not limited to 'cards'.

The UI 'cards' will naturally becoming ever increasing, and soon you end up back with a full app within ChatGPT or ChatGPT just becomes an app launcher.

The only advantage I can see is if ChatGPT can use data from other apps/ chats in your searches e.g. find me hotels in NYC for my upcoming trip (and it already knows the types of hotels you like, your budget and your dates)

AlBentley··on Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis
Simply Wall St has and will always have a free plan ;)

UI looks great though, nice work!

AlBentley··on Finance sites erroneously show Amazon, Apple, other stocks crashing
Turns out they are scraping price data, the bots must have failed!
AlBentley··on How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
We definitely do NOT dismiss it!!! It just means you need to spend a lot more time finding the real reason, or maybe you are getting traffic from the wrong group of people who have no interest in your product anyway.

Good example would be Product Hunt or Techcrunch as a traffic source, mostly useless for any testing as everyone on those sites is just interested in 'new products' or startups and is unlikely to be in your target demo.

AlBentley··on How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
To clarify what I mean by "doesn't solve major problem": it actually might solve a major problem for them but due to shit messaging/ UX/ onboarding/ trust/ bugs/ whatever they haven't realised it.

So you are correct but all those things I just consider to be part of the product as a whole.

AlBentley··on The forgotten underground world of Swiss bunkers
Below the ski resort of Verbier (Swiss) there is bunker which has been converted into a hostel. I've stayed there for a week and it is very bad, and this is just sleeping there at night. Think tiny 3 story bunks, 10+ person dorms, 2 showers and almost no communal area.

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Hotel_Review-g198848-d306983-...

AlBentley··on How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
Our experience when trying this approach is 90% reply with 'lack of time' which is not the true reason but basically means the product didn't solve a major problem for them.
AlBentley··on Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
I have been thinking about this a lot. How were you able to measure the fact you were ranking poorly before making the switch?

We use a .st domain, and whilst it is not explicitly mentioned on Googles generic list there are very few localized .st sites so I am hoping Google is counting it as a generic domain.

Note most of our users are in the US!

AlBentley··on Atlassian's success reminds what a crappy place Australia is for tech business
If you think your startup will only succeed with a fast internet connection you should probably find a better idea.
AlBentley··on Atlassian's success reminds what a crappy place Australia is for tech business
What about R&D tax rebate?
AlBentley··on Show HN: Simply Wall St – A new visual way to look at the stock market
The data is update daily from our provider Capital IQ. We are looking at pulling 15 min delayed price data in soon for the value screen.
AlBentley··on Show HN: Simply Wall St – Pinterest for Stocks in the US, UK and Aus
Thanks man, all the data comes from S&P Capital IQ.