Stocketa

Stocks and crypto made simple. Stocketa is a premium portfolio tracker in development. Made by @Stammy

[Stammy @Stammy]

Over the last year I've slowly been writing this 7,000 word post telling the story of @Stocketa and document its design.

Stocketa was my iOS portfolio tracker app—a 2.5 year side project I designed, built.. and never launched. 🧵

[Stammy @Stammy]

I posted an update about @StocketaApp here last night, along with more testflight invites 👀 https://t.co/Opfe1F2lKm

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📱 Okay here’s some TestFlight invites for my side project @StocketaApp: https://t.co/XeXx9Mp2up

Only works for U.S. stocks because reasons. Expect various bugs and issues. 🐞

Learn more about it: https://t.co/TqxTRDLgg8

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Haven’t forgotten about Stocketa, just been having so much fun working on @RewindAI ✨

I’ll probably just open a testflight for good at some point. Not sure I want to manage a full App Store release and support it right now 🙃

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@_anmolmalhotra This is the lovely Averta by https://t.co/GlA4TiKnui

That foundry has lots of affordable typefaces

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okay i had to add a lock-screen widget too. was pretty easy to code.

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getting closer to launch.. lots of small admin/testing tasks left.

I started building a (messy) admin dashboard using @retool to help with minor tasks.

Today I built a way to set and show an app status banner so I have an easy way to message any potential app issues or info

[Stammy @Stammy]

Deployed a https://t.co/TqxTRDLgg8 redesign. ✨

This was a fun one to design and build. @StocketaApp

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me: just need to update some text and images on the existing https://t.co/TqxTRE2REI

also me: what if I started from scratch 🤔

(Maybe the left side would have descriptive feature cards too idk)

[Stammy @Stammy]

✨ Designed and built a new way to interact with stocks to access details, holdings, etc for @StocketaApp.

The amount of work this took to make this all functional and feel seamless (still some things left to fix/tweak of course) was insane.

https://t.co/cgK5Saw8wZ

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@pmarquees i dont have an active testflight right now (After the apple issue i had switching accounts). focused on launching right now

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One more widget type 🤓

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Built a 3rd widget type: single stock/crypto price.

Lets you toggle if you want to see gain/loss if you have shares added in @StocketaApp

The color rail on the side changes depending on performance

this is the last new feature before launch (I say that a lot 😅)

[Stammy @Stammy]

inspired by robb's explorations with .anchorPreference I prototyped an alternate stock focus state for @StocketaApp

tapping the stock instantiates an identical view in the exact position in an overlay where i have it placed in a scrollview where i can add related views

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@honghao90 Yup!

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in case you were wondering, it's not possible to migrate a Business Apple Developer account back to an Individual account.

You have to create a new account.. but if the org was a single-member LLC using an SSN, not EIN, you can't fully create a new individual account 😤

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fun little bug while working on stock splits for @StocketaApp 😅

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@zac_siegel @Stammy there's a lot of upcoming videos about the charts (here's one of like 4 i saw https://t.co/jvf6Wnjyxc) so it will be interesting to see. but so far nothing hints at the ability to have a scrub gesture which would be a deal breaker.

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Happy 20-for-1 Amazon Stock Split day

I’ve been rewriting my stock split functionality and learning a lot about the details of splits.

Like what happens when you purchase shares of a stock after the record date but before the split ex-date. Good read: https://t.co/OQ3xOkv8ZM

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just a simple if oldValue != newValue {} (assuming you have a way to access the old value)

helps with unnecessary view redraws and code running

i had a gnarly section where i interpolate a bunch of things based on scroll and was dropping frames, adding this check helped

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Little SwiftUI performance tip:

when you're doing something where a chunk of code may get called a ton (like an onChange() or working with drag gesture changes or scroll offsets etc), add a simple conditional to check the new value is different than the last value

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lesson learned: don't spend too much time only testing in the simulator because a long period of time will pass and then you'll realize you introduced some performance issue that you couldn't notice in the simulator but is really obvious on device 🤦‍♂️ (took 4 hours but i fixed it)