[HN Gopher] Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally fi... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP Hello HN crowd. I worked on this project on weekends and evenings. I'm excited I made it into a presentable MVP, and it is so satisfying. I would like to get some honest feedback from this great community. I made www.freeoptionscreener.com, to scratch a personal itch. I myself trade options as a hobby, and I didn't find a screener that satisfies my need to be able to explore raw options data freely and without preset constraints. So I made this app that allows playing with options market data and extract interesting opportunities. The techs used: - Laravel + Jquery + Mysql - Tradier API for market data - DigitalOcean for hosting - OVH for domain name It costs me 5$/month to run the website. I'll be glade to continue if it proves to be a viable product in the long run and maybe I will take it to the next level and try monetize it. Note: the app is not suitable for phone screens yet, although this is a planned feature. Author : mrhichem Score : 96 points Date : 2021-08-26 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago) | qeternity wrote: | Cool project! | | Not to hijack your thread but I want to leave some thoughts as a | former vol trader. | | Anyone trading options more than lottery tickets should really | invest time into learning about BSM/greeks and some more advanced | options structures and vol strategies. | | For instance, if you paper traded a delta neutral book simulating | a market maker, you'd understand how options pinning works (it's | not manipulation, it's a side effect). | xupybd wrote: | I love your stack choice. Simple boring and obviously very | functional. | mrhichem wrote: | Indeed. | paulgb wrote: | Looks good! Small typo, Open Intereset -> Open Interest :) | mrhichem wrote: | oh my god.thank you for spotting it. will fix this right away | bennyp101 wrote: | I have no idea what any of the site means! | | But, I'd love to know you found time, I'm years behind on | personal projects, 2 young kids as well - genuinely interested in | how you made it work, I'm just shattered by the end of the day! | | Upvote from me because if you can ship a useful tool whilst | managing a family life then go you! Gratz! | mzarate06 wrote: | Nice work! | | I was looking for a way to screen for unusual option volume | (Volume noticeably above Open Interest), but didn't see a way to | do that directly. I do see the filters for Volume and Open | Interest, and I can play with those in various combinations to | see what I want, but I think something like a single filter that | allowed viewing all contracts where Volume > Open Interest would | address this in a more direct way. | | p.s. I know the level of commitment required to launch an MVP, | and to grow and support thereafter. I had a job at the time, and | it was a lot to juggle. I don't think I could have done it if I | also had a family. I wish you the best of luck moving this | forward! | nbrempel wrote: | Love this! Minor nit: days to expiry for expiring tomorrow shows | (2) and presumably (1) for options expiring today. I think | usually this is denoted 1 and 0 (DTE) | qeternity wrote: | Former hedge fund trader here: this is correct. | Jorge1o1 wrote: | Cool site, and congrats for shipping! | | Some minor nitpicks: | | 1. I filtered to ITM but got options that were out of the money | in my results | | 2. Rather than needing the 10,30,50,any moneyness picker, why not | a slider? | | 3. In fact, there should probably be a slider for Delta... it's | really difficult to find options that are near or at the money | since sorting by delta either starts at 1 or 0 | | 4. I didnt see a CSV export button anywhere? | | Overall nice job though! | | [edited for spacing] | ipaddr wrote: | 4. Part of the paid strategy | donnythecroc wrote: | Great business model right there | mrhichem wrote: | very valuable feedback. A slider for delta is my next feature | to implement. But afraid of too many sliders that might be | confusing. | | You can sort by ITM/OTM column to find near or at the money | options. | | The CSV also is something I should add. | eps wrote: | Clickable - https://www.freeoptionscreener.com | Sasha914 wrote: | Nice.. I've java program somewhere that draws the profit and loss | over time and price with color code for profit/loss. (price on y | , time on x). Can be a nice feature to have. my 2c | mrhichem wrote: | Indeed. can be useful. Have this feature down on the features | backlog. | bmitch2112 wrote: | I don't know anything about trading options but wanted to say | with a 9-5 job and 2 kids, getting any kind of MVP out is a great | accomplishment. Well done. | mrhichem wrote: | thank you for the kind words | anish_m wrote: | Second this. It's not only intellectually draining, | emotionally too. Great job. | mNovak wrote: | I like the numbers inside slider thumbs, haven't seen that one | before! Otherwise not qualified to comment on functionality | mrhichem wrote: | thanks. | thrower123 wrote: | The title of your post doesn't provide any reason that anyone | would ever investigate what you did. | | I don't care about your trials and tribulations making whatever | you made, I just want to know what it is. | | And I still don't know what it is after reading your post... | giantg2 wrote: | "With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP | ... | | I worked on this project on weekends and evenings." | | I can't wait until my kid is old enough that I can really work on | stuff when watching them on nights and weekends. | chrisrickard wrote: | First of all: congrats on shipping, not an easy feat. | | Constructive criticism: I had no idea what this site was about | until I spent a minute looking around.. and now I only _think_ I | get. | | Granted I am (probably) not your target market, however I think | maybe a landing page or at least a popup tutorial - which I can | then "Skip" at my peril would be a smart addition. | nbrempel wrote: | Counter point: as someone who plays with trading options as a | hobby I instantly knew what this is! | donnythecroc wrote: | Yep same here. I usually agree with the whole "your | grandmother should get it" but don't think that applies here. | amyunus wrote: | I don't have idea what it is. But first, congrats! I immediately | open this thread after reading the title. Having 9to5 job and | kids (2!), it is truly hard making time, even you make it to | finish the MVP. Applause! | | - I spot a typo on the About description, should be | opportunities. - Email us to contact@go2.broker? - I'm not sure | why expiration date 2021-08-27 has 2d | willhinsa wrote: | I read the title as though achieving a 9-5 job and having 2 kids | _was_ the MVP. I like that interpretation as well :) | mrhichem wrote: | cool interpretation :) | contingencies wrote: | Congrats. | | Interface-wise, what a lot of people do now when facing a large | number of filtering or sorting options is they collapse them and | provide a summary with a filter button to pop them back out. This | may reduce visual clutter. The description field information is | also 100% redundant. Strike and other price columns should have a | currency symbol. It is conventional to use either decimal point | vertical alignment or right-alignment with fixed-width fonts when | displaying numbers in series. Do not underestimate the value of | color for comparing figures, eg. high vs. low volume or interest. | | Some kind of clickable action to purchase brokerage via third | party services for which you can obtain referral kickbacks might | generate revenue. | mrhichem wrote: | very valuable feedback. thanks a lot | Jefro118 wrote: | This is great - I was trying to calculate option profit for | something a few months ago and it was a huge pain using the free | options I found on Google so I think this might have legs. Best | of luck. | mrhichem wrote: | thanks | trangus_1985 wrote: | Using color to describe information ranges is an excellent way to | add a passive dimension of information, and allow people to | screen out inferior choices. | | "Dimming" the entire screen on a choice change is extremely | visually distracting. A small spinner on the data sheet would be | an excellent indicator that "this data is about to change". | | Excellent tool, I'm going to play around with it tonight. | mrhichem wrote: | feedback like this is the reason I love this community. | definitly considering going by your remark | cushychicken wrote: | Congratulations on shipping. | | It is no mean feat around a day job and a family. | | Nice work getting over the hump! | mrhichem wrote: | thanks. | awa wrote: | Congrats! Looks really interesting, I do see a few data issue | e.g. NVDA Sep 17 2021 $405.00 Put NVDA(Stock) put 726.44 405 | 321.44(44%) 2021-09-17(61d) 2 3 0.98 1.29 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 | 0.0000 2.000 | | Have you looked into https://optionstrat.com/ | mrhichem wrote: | thank you for spotting this issue. And for the link, definitely | useful. | nlh wrote: | Before I've even checked it out: Congrats on shipping!!!! I know | how hard it is to get something done with the constraints of a | day job & family. | | I read SO many comments on here from folks lamenting their lack | of energy + time to do something like this despite the desire to | do so. So 10000 congrats on pushing through and getting something | live. | | Now to actually check it out (and I'll come back and update this | comment with actual feedback ;) | mrhichem wrote: | thanks. looking forward for the feedback. | boplicity wrote: | How did you balance the responsibilities of being a parent, | especially in terms of the endless chores, and the time | commitment to make this happen? | mrhichem wrote: | I always put work on my project second behind being parent and | husband. I sometimes wakeup early before staring my job. | sometimes late nigh before going to bed after my kids sleep. | Working from home covid policies also helped reducing commute | time. I made small but contineous progress each day. | drm509 wrote: | Can I contribute to your repo? I know only Scala but I have need | of more features like OI, volumes, etc and backtests to find UOA. | you can reach me at eamocanu on GitHub or gmail | mrhichem wrote: | What are OI and UOA? | waydegg wrote: | Open Interest and Unusual Options Activity ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-26 23:01 UTC)