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Jun 29, 2024 05:30 AM
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Alchimista is a mobile app that makes it easy to look for stocks and the market. View quotes and performance, and tap any ticker to see an interactive graph. Stocks also includes business news from top publications around the world.
Product Features
Feature 1: Checking Stock
Feature 2: Note
Feature 3: Idea Chat
Feature 3: Favourite stock watchlist
Feature 4: Market Alarm
Feature 5: Additional (Economic Calendar, FX rate, Hot Stocks, Cryptocurrency, Global News)
What am I trying to achieve?
The focus of Alchimista is to build a mobile application to enable better decision by improving the features from the current apps. We try to lower the entry barrier and make the information handier, as the information gap makes investors more advantageous. Without the hassle of advertisement and charging fees, users will be able to view the stock quote, financial details, related news, and more importantly, interactive graphs that allows them to annotate.
Why building this?
There are many mobile apps in the markets, both Android and Apple; however, many of them require further subscription or creating an account to use their services. The high fee hinders the beginners to learn and have a gist of how investing works. Many apps have their own uniqueness, but they are yet to be comprehensive. More details will be discussed in the section of competitive analysis.
Who can use this app?
We believe that everyone has a chance to be financial freedom, regardless of age, gender, or occupation, as long as ones have their phone in their pocket. However, rather than targeting those who are really using the trading brokerage platform, the app is ideally targeting beginners who are into investment and are keen to learn to invest but do not want to subscribe to the services they are not determined to.
Software infrastructure
Here lists out the infrastructure for the features:
- The user information is authenticated using Firebase (FirebaseAuth).
- The Financial information is fetched from the Finnhub.
- The news of a searched stock is fetched using Finnhub’s News API.
- The global news is using the NewsCatcher News API.
- The note data is stored in a local device using CoreData.
- The real-time stock chart is back up by TradingView.
This app utilises the above third-party code, the Use of which is hereby acknowledged.
Reference
Following is the list of tutorials and codes that I followed and referenced to build Alchemista:
Proposal
- Author:Jason Siu
- URL:https://jason-siu.com/article/alchemista
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