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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

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655 points jonkuipers | 3 comments | 07 Jul 25 22:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.461s | source
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yesimahuman ◴[09 Jul 25 01:10 UTC] No.44505439[source]▶
Congrats! I'm a customer. Haven't used it too much but so far I like having it to check in periodically. One wish list item: live securities prices to avoid having to copy/paste values all the time. For example, with that you can have a live snapshot of the values in most brokerages
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1. throwaway2037 ◴[09 Jul 25 11:35 UTC] No.44508738[source]▶

    > live securities prices
This is probably impossible in 2025. Many stock exchanges now make more money from selling data feeds than trading fees. It is a little bit crazy. The best that you can hope for is a delayed feed, or last closes.
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2. fullstackchris ◴[09 Jul 25 13:08 UTC] No.44509607[source]▶
This is incorrect. Almost all brokers nowadays allow for OAuth connections where you can stream any data you'd see in your broker platform to any consuming web application (given the consuming web application does all the paperwork, dev work, and so on)
3. yesimahuman ◴[09 Jul 25 13:35 UTC] No.44509886[source]▶
That's the best part about VTSAX and chill: you only ever have last closes. Really though this does not need to be real time at all, just recent enough to save me toil