Waddle - A platform for investing with friends and communities online | Product...

Hey Product Hunters!

Long-time builders, first-time makers here :).

First off, just wanted to say it’s been truly inspiring to see all the amazing stuff being built here, as well as the feedback from the Product Hunt community, so 👏 to everyone for their hard work!

After two years of working on Waddle, we’re excited to announce that the public beta is now available!

Back when we started, we noticed that even though the internet has allowed us to connect with friends and communities online in more ways than ever, investing is still largely done through siloed investing apps. We wanted to build an investment app that embraced the same connectedness we leverage elsewhere in our lives so that anyone can experience investing in a shared way. Our app attempts to break down the siloed approach in a few different ways:

Private Groups

Create a private group to invest with friends. Receive automatic notifications when your friends make trades, as well as daily updates to see who has the big winners/losers of the day. Manage group watchlists, and track real-time portfolio performance among your friends to see who's up and who's down. There's also a discussion board to post the latest news, share research ideas, and maybe some friendly trolling. 😆

Public Communities

In addition to private groups, we also have “Stock Communities” you can join by either following or investing in a given symbol. A number of visualizations allow you to see investing trends from actual holders of the stock. Show off your analysis by sharing your price target prediction for a particular symbol, compare your prediction with the overall community, and see how well the community predicts the actual price!

Movements

If you have a particular read on a stock, or basket of stocks, that you want to share with the community, you can create a “Movement”, which represents a tradable asset that others can buy and add directly to their portfolio. Track how your movement is trending with a bunch of metrics updated in real-time: historical movement performance, the number of people and total dollars invested, as well as who’s making (or losing!) money based on your idea.

Getting Started

Signing up is easy and can be done with just your email. We also offer paper trading functionality that can be enabled with just a click. With a paper account you can try out most of the site features, and you can always open a real brokerage account at any time. Note that at the moment, registering for a brokerage account is only supported for US citizens/residents.

Thanks so much for reading!

Roger and Vova

Love the micro-communities that you guys are building. Also, by making it social you'll increase the accountability and support, which should hopefully improve investment outcomes for everyone.

Love your work!