Personal finance and investing
Retail trading tools and journals
Tools for retail traders to journal trades and analyze behavior, practice with paper trading and simulators, backtest and automate strategies, and get AI-generated signals or chart analysis.
Built for: Active retail and aspiring traders
Projects since May 04
219
Different builders
210
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+8%
AI is the core
24%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (60%), mobile app (11%), ai agent or bot (8.7%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- DeepTrade — Lets a user chat with a Telegram bot that researches stocks, drafts Upstox orders, and places them only after manual confirmation.“I spent 2 weeks fighting the Upstox API so I could talk to my broker on Telegram - open-sourced the whole thing”
- Gold Runner — Lets players fly a gold price chart in a 60-second endless runner that teaches trading pitfalls by dodging scam signals, over-leverage and missing stop losses while collecting take-profit gates.“I made this, Gold Runner Flight game. You fly as a gold price chart and hit take profits while avoiding scams and margin calls (60 sec gameplay, no signup)”
- Windmill — Converts a plain-English trading strategy into an AI agent that paper-trades or live-trades Kalshi prediction markets.“My first launch got 3 users and 2 of them quit within 15 minutes. I spent two months rewriting it, and today is launch two.”
- Astoria Insight — Simulates a market of bots trading against each other and lets players trade in it to grow their holdings.“Made a bunch of bots buy and sell against each other to see what would happen. Kept going and it turned into a game”
- Tracks trader behavior to surface habits that affect trading performance.“I built a behavioral tracking website for traders”
- Converts Telegram trading signals into exchange orders with risk checks, position sizing, stop loss and multiple take profits.“I built a SaaS that turns Telegram trading signals into exchange orders and the hard part wasn't the API”
- Agon — Derives personal trading limits from a user's past trading behaviour and enforces them as boundaries on AI trading agents.“We’re building a control layer for AI trading agents on Solana”
- Investment Bets — Records server-fetched entry and exit prices for user-placed long or short stock bets and ranks users by summed percentage returns.“I built a paper-trading site where bets are tracked at live market prices”
- DIDI — Publishes MNQ futures trade setups with daily liquidity levels, entry, stop and target, and records every outcome in shadow mode.“I built a transparent MNQ alert system and would love honest feedback”
- Risk of Ruin — Lets players build a roguelike deck of trading strategies, coded or drag-and-drop, and fight rival trading desks with real backtests on historical crypto data.“I built Risk of Ruin, a free roguelike deck builder where your deck is REAL trading algorithms you can code. Every fight is a real backtest on historical crypto data.”
- Sentio Trader — Converts a plain-English trading setup into a backtested model that sends live alerts for ES and NQ futures.“I built a tool that turns a trading setup written in plain English into a tested, live-alerting model (ES/NQ futures)”
- TradeLog — Imports trades from TradingView, MT4 and MT5 and reviews performance through analytics, charts, a calendar and a trade journal.“I made a free trading journal for Windows”
- Records discretionary trading sessions, trade theses, and post-market reviews, then analyzes the process to turn mistakes and patterns into strategies and playbooks.“I built a trading journal and turned it into a full trading dashboard.”
- ForexRecap — Syncs OANDA trade history automatically and reports win rate, average win and loss, breakeven win rate, P/L by session, instrument and day of week, and open risk.“Built a free trading journal that auto-syncs with OANDA — no spreadsheets, no CSV exports”
- Stock Analyzer — Checks planned stock trades against technical guardrails like RSI, moving averages, and MACD, and explains in plain English whether a dip has confirmed a bottom.“I built a swing-trading app that tells me when I'm buying too early. This week it kept me out of MCD's "doji bottom."”
- Tickfloor — Scores stocks and crypto out of 10 with suggested entry, stop and target levels, and publishes backtest results of trading strategies.“Tickfloor: a stock/crypto scoring tool where I publish every test I ran on it, including the ones that failed”
- MarketRooms — Shows live chat rooms alongside trading charts for financial markets.“MarketRooms: live chat beside trading charts — easier setup and expanded perpetual-market support”
- Provides a trading terminal focused on fundamental analysis for traders.“our own public terminal”
- ReadChart — Connects a MetaTrader 5 trading account to an AI assistant that reads live price bars, manages price alerts, and places trades only after user confirmation.“Any forex traders here? Need feedback on my app”
- PaperDrill — Lets users compete in simulated trading against each other.“PaperDrill v1 released. The competitive trading platform”
Most discussed
- JournalX — Logs and analyzes trading activity in a trading journal app.“A competitor took our app name and is now outranking us on Google. What do we do?”
- Upstonk — Simulates a stock market in the browser where every trade is shown as a profit.“I got tired of losing money, so I built a stock market where every trade prints green! (UPSTONK.COM)”
- WWT — Provides a trading-terminal style website with market signals, tools, and account-gated signals tab for traders.“I made a lot of updates to my website, got time to take a look?”
- hedgefun.ai — Offers an app that provides options trading strategies for SPX and SPY.“Finally a steady income! 1200 CAD/month”
- Analyzes trading chart screenshots with AI to suggest stock and crypto trade entries.“Crossed 1,000 users today and still can't quite believe it 🥹”
- Runs automated arbitrage trades across three markets using real money and reports returns.“Built an arbitrage bot averaging 12% monthly for 3 months but I dont have the capital to scale it. Sell it or find an investor?”
- TradePilot — Helps traders create, edit, debug, and optimize Pine Script trading strategies from plain English inside TradingView.“Got my First $$$ 😭😭😭”
- deadcatfound — Runs a trading operations desk in demo mode, using a local CLI AI tool on the user's machine to process scheduled work.“Local-only on the user's machine, or hosted? Stuck on the tradeoff”
- QuantRank500 — Records public trading predictions with tamper-evident hash locks and settles them automatically against the market.“I built a site where nobody can edit their trading track record. Tell me why it won't work.”
- Scrapes stock data and automatically opens, sets take-profit and stop-loss on, and manages trades through Interactive Brokers paper account based on a trading algorithm.“I’m vibecoding a trading algorithm, and it’s actually working better than I expected”