Project background
Overview
A visionary entrepreneur from India sought to develop a social trading platform for iOS and Android. The platform would allow users to log in with different brokers, engage with a community of stock market enthusiasts, copy their actions, and create and track their own investment portfolios. The aim was to democratize access to stock market insights and trading strategies, making investment accessible to both novices and experienced traders.
Project goals
- Develop a user-friendly mobile application for iOS and Android that facilitates social investing.
- Enable users to log in with various Indian brokers and trade directly from the app.
- Create a vibrant community of stock market enthusiasts where users can share and copy trading strategies.
- Provide tools for users to create, monitor, and manage their own investment portfolios.
Challenges
- Developing a complex filtration system for assets, trading frequency, and performance metrics.
- Ensuring secure and reliable integration with multiple Indian brokers.
- Mobileapp
- 6team members
- 600+hours spent
- Fintechdomain
Our approach
Solution
Our approach was to use agile development methodologies to ensure flexibility and continuous feedback from the client. We focused on creating a secure, scalable, and user-friendly platform that would cater to the diverse needs of Indian traders. We developed a comprehensive social investing application that allows users to engage with the stock market community, copy trades, and manage their own investment portfolios. Key features include a complex filtration system, broker logins, watchlists, and the ability to create and follow portfolios.
Team
The project team consisted of a project manager, backend, frontend/mobile developers, a UI/UX designer, a QA engineer, and a DevOps engineer.
Results
The social trading platform application was successfully launched on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It has become a popular platform for social investing, allowing users to engage with a like-minded community and learn from top traders.
Achievements
- Over 100,000 downloads on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
- High user engagement with an average rating of 4.7/5.
- Recognized as a top fintech app in India for social investing.
Complex filtration system: users can filter assets by class, trading frequency, performance metrics, and more
Broker login: integration with key Indian brokers for seamless trading
Watchlists creation: users can add assets and portfolios to their watchlist for monitoring
Portfolio management: users can create their own portfolios, view all key metrics, and make them private or public
Community engagement: users can follow and copy the portfolios of other traders, with all actions performed automatically
Twitter integration: if linked, users’ transaction data is published in a Twitter feed for real-time updates
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