1. Do you think there's an opportunity for you to obtain 3rd-party insurance on deposits, as a sort of middle ground between uninsured deposits and FDIC?
2. How/why did you choose to partner with Fidelity?
3. Have you launched on any other financially-focused websites? If so, how was your product received by those crowds?
4. Out of curiosity, what tech are y'all building with?
Best of luck!
1. It's a good question, I don't think we have really looked into this, so honestly I can say much. But worth of further investigation on our side!
2. It turns out that we need a number of features (investment account, checking account with debit card, etc, ability to spend money against your investments, and a few more), and there are not too many players left that we could build on top of. So it was process of elimination mostly.
3. We haven't, this is our first big public launch.
4. We are built on AWS using lambdas and DynamoDB. We are using Typescript as our main programming language, both in the front-end and backend, which is very convenient, especially since we are using a monorepo. Makes code-sharing very easy. Our frontend is built using React.
Pay X% to limit your maximum losses in a year to Y.
For example, right now you can buy yearlong puts on SPY at a strike price of $260 (58% of the current value) for 1% of the current price.
How are you managing financial numbers safely in TS? Any library to ensure its "safe"?
I ask not to challenge you or critique, but i have a deep interest in fintech and love Typescript. The ability to use it for fintech would be great, i just assumed it'd be too clunky to be practical.