Writing a Financial Services App in Python

[Cai Gengyang]

Sure ... is this : https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python a good place to learn Python ?

Are you wanting to contract with some programmers to create this application for you? ---- Eventually I will have to find programming co-founders and employees to create and iterate the product as user feedback streams in. But I will write the initial prototype myself because I plan to be the main programmer / founder , but yes ... eventually I will need 1 or even 2 co-founders and when the platform gains enough users, we will have to hire programmers and sales/ business people. But this will be a tech-heavy company and all the main founders and employees should be excellent programmers. But for the moment, I plan to write the initial prototype myself ... 


On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 12:00:34 AM UTC+8, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 11/19/2015 04:59 AM, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> > 
> > From YCombinator's new RFS, This is the problem I want to solve as it
> > is a severe problem I face myself and something I need. I want to
> > write this app in Python as I heard that Python is a great language
> > that many programmers use ... How / where do I start ? The problem is
> > detailed below :
> 
> I'm afraid you're going to be discouraged.
> 
> Well the first step is you have to learn programming.  And you don't
> start with such a large problem, I assure you.  You start by learning
> the language by following the tutorials, writing small programs to
> become familiar with programming and the language itself.  Then you
> become familiar with related things like algorithms and data structures,
> and how to use them with and from Python (or any language).  Eventually
> you add to that graphical user interface development.
> 
> After that then you might be in a position to start thinking about how
> to design and build a program that does what you were talking about.
> 
> There honestly are no shortcuts.  Python is a great language, and is
> easy to learn, but it's not like you can start cranking out full-blown
> applications magically.  In the hands of experienced programmers, yes
> Python is incredibly fast and flexible for cranking out working apps.
> 
> You might try checking out a Python application development framework
> that can produce apps that will run on Android and iOS (and Windows and
> Linux) called Kivy.  I would think mobile should be your target platform
> for such an app.
> 
> > <snip>
> 
> > This seems to us like something software should help solve. We'd like
> > to see teams tackling each of the component issues around saving and
> > investing, along with ones tackling the entire package.
> 
> Are you wanting to contract with some programmers to create this
> application for you?