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Would love to chat. Email us at hello [at] enombic [dot] com and we'll find a time
Spot on :)
Agreed. We're excited to improve this part of the product
Love this suggestion. We've got lots of plans for helping folks communicate their thesis & decision making. Personally I like the README metaphor, but we also want to facilitate comments & discussions
Agreed! We haven't brought optimization in-product yet because we want to get it right, but we've been having fun doing things like this more informally. E.g. https://enombic.com/mandelbrot/wsb-MPT uses the markowitz model to calculate its weights.

One of our main goals with enombic is to empower retail investors with more advanced tooling, glad to hear you're sympathetic to this. Would love to chat more about it if you want, hello [at] enombic [dot] com.

Lots of our early users have asked a similar question. We're actively working on search & browse to help improve how you discover and bring together great indexes and stocks, many of which will no doubt be themed. CRISPR is a good example, we've definitely noticed an interest in biotech developing on our platform, e.g. https://enombic.com/aml/biotech.

Another neat thing is to see how the metrics improve when you bring differently-themed indexes together (e.g. https://enombic.com/aml/diversified), since the underlying assets are more decorrelated.

This is a great question that we've put a lot of thought into, since we share the same concerns you do. We currently monetize via a subscription model for premium features, such as unlimited private indexes and access to full version histories of your and other users' indexes.

However, part of what appeals to us about bringing more of the financial stack in-house is exploring innovative models beyond PFOF & MER. Lots of room for creativity here.

Glad you like our site design too. :)

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:19PM (#26269057)
Thanks for mentioning them! Yes some folks have pointed us to Trading212.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:05PM (#26268922)
Thanks Peter! It's been terrific having you on and getting your feedback.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:02PM (#26268898)
Thanks! We're excited to help folks work together to level up their diversification strategy for exactly the reasons you shared.

Re: popular indexes and creator incentives, we have lots of ideas in the works. Glad you're interested in it!

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#26268859)
Thanks! Appreciate you checking us out. Getting a lot of engagement, we'll be bringing folks in as quickly as we can handle.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:53PM (#26268817)
Thanks for the link, we'll definitely check them out.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:52PM (#26268811)
Thanks for checking us out! Any user can invest in any other user's index, as long as it's public.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:40PM (#26268686)
good catch, will fix shortly :)
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:26PM (#26268546)
Nice, glad to hear it. We lean new contributions as well.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:16PM (#26268440)
Hey! Great questions/feedback:

1. Would love both, but no specific timeline yet.

2. Agreed, re: social. We have some preliminary social features, but keen on building out more. Most of our users have group chats with friends like you've described (as do we). We want to bring the right parts of that experience in-product.

3. Thanks, yeah it's an exciting part of the product we look forward to building more advanced features for.

4. We're based in the bay area, our tech stack is react, nextjs, swr, python, aiohttp, redis, postgres (& timescaledb), k8s, terraform, aws.

Looking forward to getting you signed up!

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:19PM (#26267720)
Thanks! We are. :) Looking in particular for a strong backend engineer. Tech stack is python, aiohttp, redis, postgres (& timescaledb), k8s, terraform, aws (react, nextjs, swr on the frontend).

Know anyone?

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:05PM (#26267551)
Hey, thanks for checking us out. We want to get the UX right first with our existing feature set, and then consider expanding to more advanced things such as derivatives or options. We'll keep your request in mind!

Also agree, re: API tooling. We'd love to find folks who want to write code against our API. Is that something you'd use?

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:53PM (#26267402)
Thanks! Couldn't agree more. On the strategies front, we have some exciting ideas in the works. Github is one of our favorite products, tons to draw on for more advanced strategy development. Glad you appreciate the analogy.

Great to hear you've been working on some things in open source finance. We love getting feedback from folks who are building in the space. Looking forward to getting you on the product.

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:36PM (#26267187)
Thanks! Looking forward to getting you on the product.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:21PM (#26266981)
Thanks! We're especially excited to hear from folks who've DIY'd this kind of strategy before, would love your feedback.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:01PM (#26266707)
Hey, thanks for checking us out! If you submit to join the waitlist, we'll prioritize you in the queue. Attempting to sign up or login in at this time will just route you back to the landing page. It's not a very clear UX at the moment, thanks for reporting it.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:45PM (#26266492)
Hey, thanks for taking a look! Great questions, we take security and data seriously. All communication is encrypted end to end (of course), but we also ensure data at rest is encrypted, using KMS & RDS.

Brokerages handle your account based information, but we generate additional data around your investments to help give you a richer picture into your portfolio performance.

One particularly fun part of our data structures is the indexes themselves, which are all nest-able and fully versioned, creating a rich graph of historical performance data. Looking forward to exposing more features around this in the future.

Our tech stack is react, nextjs, swr, python, aiohttp, redis, postgres (& timescaledb), k8s, terraform, aws.

Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:33PM (#26266315)
Thanks! Yeah we were recently pointed to Motif by some of our early users. Have loved seeing their enthusiasm for it, hoping we can provide a great experience as well.
Re:Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:22PM (#26266173)
Thanks! Yes we're looking forward to getting more content on the landing page soon. For now, all the links above are public pages, so you can explore those to see some of our features.

We are currently the latter; we're powered by existing brokerages, but are working to become our own.