Coming Soon: Price Pipeline Health Widget join the sprint
> Sprint starts next week — engineers, designers and beta users welcome DM me.
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Pocket Portfolio’s promise is reliability: never show 0.00 and always explain a number. We already ru...
Designing a “Never-0.00” Price Pipeline in the Real World
> Your users don’t care why a quote failed—they care that the number didn’t flash 0.00. Here’s a pragmatic, production-ready pipeline that returns the best price you can get within a strict ...
OpenBrokerCSV v0.1 — Let’s Standardise Broker CSVs So Everyone Can Build Better Tools
> Every broker exports a different CSV. That’s fine until you try to import… anything. Let’s fix this together with a small, pragmatic standard and a lightweight...
Today’s ship: Mock-Trade Lab, 5-min CSV Import, and bulletproof Price Fallbacks
> We’re building Pocket Portfolio in the open. Today we shipped three slices that make the app instantly useful.
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1 Mock-Trade & Scenario Lab live
What: Add/remove ...
DISCUSS The “Never 0.00” Challenge — design a resilient price pipeline client → edge together
> New group, first thread. Let’s start with a problem every finance app faces: your quotes flicker to 0.00 right when users need truth. How do we design a ...
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Building finance tools people actually trust: a practical playbook from the Pocket Portfolio trenches
> I’m 22s, one of the folks behind Pocket Portfolio — an open-source, no-paywall investing dashboard where you can import a CSV -> get clean li...