Can you elaborate on the forex gig? I've always wanted to do it. Are you doing only TA? it seems you scrap media sites for sentiment analysis too?
Where do you get your forex data tick feed? do you pay for that?
What timeline you trade? Hourly/4H?
Which broker you use? Metatrader to make your trades or using FIX protocol? EUR/USD only for low spreads?
not asking for your algorithm, just wanna get a background what someone successful is doing.
Don't rely on serendipity, we can do better than that. Use your programming skills.
Pull the meetup list, get all of their twitter profiles, search everyones last 1000 tweets for topics you are interested in. Pull all of their code on github. Push it through the profiler and find the talent.
Mirror github if you have to. Pull the whole darn thing, it's only a couple of hundred gigs (if you dont pull the code) Profile everyone based on their stars, contributions, watchers and pull requests.
How many other meetups do they go to? What's their history like on other forums?
Put the pics of these people on your phone, and then go and find them at the meetup. Pull their customer lists / testimonials and any other publicly available data.
Look at their company DNS records. Pull their company filings if they're available. Know their revenue, know their customers. Who's making the decisions at this company? Who is signing the cheques?
This seems to be a fun project (enticing really), but I think I should use my programming skills to improve my startup's product. There is so much to do. I'd like something like Uber. Push a button and a salesman with a black suitcase pops in front of me. ;)
Previously I have 2 other startups, one was media monitoring and one was forex.
The media monitoring is B2B only. The forex trading is automated and run from my home research cluster.
Both are generating enough revenue to live off (media monitoring 120k forex, 60-80k)
I guess they fit the definition of solo founder and online, but they have no public facing websites (except SignalBox)
EDIT: I also run a slack group for Solo Founders, If you would like an invite, please email me