Great write up & very accurate detailing of the problem. While I was head of growth @ Kalshi (YC19) you would be shocked to discover how much we spent on data licensing.

> But, I started to get an idea of why there aren't great apps from indie developers focused on the stock market: getting quality financial market data is a nightmare. The good data you need for commercial use will cost $2,000/mon to start.

>I wouldn't ship an app with unreliable or inaccurate data. It never met my quality bar.

Stammys data challenges really resonated with me as I work to solve this problem for betting markets (instead of stock markets) with my new startup wagerapi.com

Have you ever wanted to know the Hex, RGB, and Pantone colors of every NBA team? No? Well too bad because I'm building https://nbacolors.com

Marcin is a type wizard. I really enjoyed this typography talk from him as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD-sjtFoEI

And quite a writer too. I'm reading the article right now and it is great fun!

This is amazingly clever "remote work" marketing. Congrats on shipping this!

Outside of Runner, what plugins are you missing?

Im extremely impressed with what you've built here. Id love to connect, any chance you can drop me a note toni @ figma?

Thanks!! Sure, will do.

An online design tool. Think of it as sketch/photoshop/illustrator in the browser.

Thanks. For a single-person or maybe two-person team working in the same office, would you recommend Figma or Sketch?

Both would work well assuming you are using them for UI design. Note that Sketch is Mac only though. Although Figma runs in the browser, they also have Electron-based desktop apps for Mac and Windows.

Purchasing Sketch gives you one year of updates. If you decide not to renew the subscription, the app is still yours to keep and run - but you won't get any new updates. Figma follows the SaaS model of subscription, but they do have a free tier.

Sketch also has a lot more tutorials and plugins than Figma at the moment, in case that is important.

Our designers use Figma, and I've had to interact with it a fair bit as a developer. It's great. :) I can't speak to feature parity with sketch (I've used both though), but I really like the cross-platform nature of Figma, and its performance has been great for the projects I've worked with.

I have used Sketch a lot and can recommend it quite highly. I'm not a big fan of in-browser tools so it's not a knock on Figma at all, I haven't used it beyond a very short demo.

edit: I've used sketch from a design and a front end devs perspective and it was nice to use from both.

As a Linux user Figma is the only good tool I've found that lets me design UIs.

I don’t have a huge amount of experience, but Figma is a real pleasure to use. Performance -wise it was great compared with sketch when I tried it. Ymmv

Because of Parker Conrad

Saved you a click.

And a rich kid from the Upper West Side.

Startups are much easier when your born wealthy and your parents have wealthy/connected friends.

I'd be a rockstar if I was blessed with such a path.

Not jaded this is just the reality for many successful startup founders.

He went to Harvard. He described his own high school efforts as "mediocre grades". Clearly smart and driven, but taking lessons from his experience is probably unwise. OT: at some point the Ivy's reputations have to get a little tarnished when it becomes obvious they admit mostly legacies and donors.

I wonder what portion of startups with significant early funding are founded by children and/or relations of already wealthy and successful people?

This is no longer true. You can now export .fig files to save locally on linux/mac/windows

Vonnegut is the author that I wish I was, and was a major influence on my reading, thinking and creating. Strongly recommend picking up a few of his novels, you wont be able to put them down. My favorites are Slaughterhouse Five, Cats Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

I agree that everyone should try and read Vonnegut but don't expect everyone to enjoy it or find in it the awakening I sure did.

I think his writing really clicks with a particular type of person at a particular time in their life; if either is not quite right it seems reactions range from disinterest to hostility.

I discovered Sirens of Titan and Player Piano in high school and loved them immediately (unlike so much assigned reading) but I'm not sure I'd feel the same if I was to read them for the first time at this stage in my life. For instance, I still enjoy re-reading Hocus Pocus or Jailbird but not so much Slaughterhouse Five. I can't precisely say why, but so it goes...

I kinda had the same feeling with Slaughterhouse Five as you. I know with music this has happened to me...but some albums, if I listen to them enough, I start to really like them. Maybe you should try reading SH5 a few times and see how it settles in...the first time reading it was soo good...

Timequake is also a great one if you've enjoyed his other work

  I taught how to be sociable with ink on paper. I told
  my students that when they were writing they should be
  good dates on blind dates, should show strangers good
  times. Alternatively, they should run really nice
  whorehouses, come one, come all, although they were in
  fact working in perfect solitude. I said I expected
  them to do this with nothing but idiosyncratic
  arrangements in horizontal lines of twenty-six phonetic
  symbols, ten numbers, and maybe eight punctuation
  marks, because it wasn't anything that hadn't been done
  before.

  — Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

Timequake is one of my favourites too, but really every Vonnegut book I have read is a treat.

Sure the Bible might be the greatest story ever told, but the most popular story is about a couple who has a good time fornicating, but then stops for one reason or another while it is still a novelty.