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Please put a TLDR at the top of this post. There is currently one sentence that refers to “financial education” but no further details on what that entails until you read a long story about how you met. I skimmed the post but still don’t know what market you’re in or how you’re differentiated. Most HNers will care more about your product/vision than the story of how you met.

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I would normally agree but when editing this text I found it so exuberant that I just decided to leave it as is.

You're right, there likely was an opportunity for a TLDR there.

I will post one for you here for your convenience:

TLDR; Stock Unlock is a web app providing investment education and analysis tools, which is built by a group of stock nerds with an interesting company origin story. We are on a mission to show everyone that investing isn't meant to be hard, the tooling today is just inaccessible/hard to use. By focusing on education and building tools which save our communities time, Stock Unlock is looking to be the online place for everyone to learn to invest/manage their own capital.

I hope that's not too sale-y? I am much better at writing code than english, I promise :p

If this is still unclear please let me know and I'd love to give more insights.

This helps, but it's still pretty high-level. Investment education could mean a lot of things, and it's not quite clear how people interact with the product.

Also, I have somewhat of a shady knee-jerk reaction when I hear about any stock-analysis-tools-to-help-you-make-money. I always think "if this is such a great system, why don't you keep it a secret and use it yourself with your own money or money you've raised?" If getting a few dollars a week from a bunch of people is more lucrative than using the tool internally, how valuable can the tool be?

Just my 2¢!

Our investment education right now is 100s of interactive "?" widgets all over the site that are built from 200+ pages of definitions written by Daniel Pronk. Things like definitions, how to calculate, how investors use this, etc (I hope that further clarifies, you're right that "investment education" is vague)

And I see your points and it's definitely a trustless space we are in which is why we are built off the ground from discord communities/not people leaving finance jobs in suits. We will work on our branding, we never promise people will make money, only that we provide resources to help people better analyze and understand stocks. Sure, that should result in better money management, but as a co-founder I'd never promise returns/tell someone this will get you rich

Your 2cents is worth a dollar to me. Appreciate all this!

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