My business started off as a passion project. I was in my first year at Carnegie Mellon University taking a class called Foundations of Software Engineering. I had just finished what we called an “Architectural Haiku”, which was a document that outlined the architecture of the system we were building in class, including the technical constraints, the functional and non-functional requirements, and the design patterns we would use. It was at this point where I said f*** it! I duplicated the document, erased the title, and called it “The AlgoTrading System”.
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One of the first architectural artifacts of “The AlgoTrading System”
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Since then, the AlgoTrading System has underwent a series of dramatic transformations. What started as a command-line tool evolved into a fully-functional web application. In September of the year before last, I opened-sourced the first iteration of the tool NextTrade, which garnered hundreds of users. From there, I rebuilt the system, iterated on it, created a new state-of-the-art AI-Powered Chat, and released the current version of the platform, NexusTrade.
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This journey has been a wild ride, from a tool with only 1 user, to a powerful system with over 2,000 free users and 10 paid users. The business didn’t come through the traditional avenues of doing product research and interviewing tens of people and figuring out what their problems were. The business started in a very nontraditional way; as a platform firstly for myself and secondly for others. And in this process, upon reflection, I created a brand new industry: retail algorithmic trading.
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