u/VariationAware1436

At the beginning of this year I'd embark on a journey I never thought I'd go on. After trading for 2 years and still not being consistently profitable I needed something to change. I wanted to start small and just make sure that i'm at least trading every day. I wanted something easily accessible, easy to use and of course free. So first thing I did was look on the App Store and surprisingly I couldn't find anything.

I then looked online for a website and came across tradezilla and websites like it. Like I said earlier I didn't really want to spend money on something so simple and just by looking at tradezilla I knew it was just way too much for me. And in trading less is more.

A few hours pass and I start venting to my boy Anuraag about how I couldn't find anything to solve my problem. He jokingly said "so make an app".

As someone with barely any coding or developing experience, I didn't take it serious. But then I thought about it again. There's nothing already existing that will solve my issue, and I was tired of writing all of my journals down in a notebook. So I thought to myself well fuck it, lets see if Its hard to make an app.

So I went to chatgbt and asked how hard it would be to create a simple app. I described how I wanted it to function and it gave me 3 options.

Choice 1. make a google form, which would take no coding but it wouldn't feel like a real app. (Honestly looking back now this was probably the best choice for what I needed at the moment but I had little interest in it for some reason)

Choice 2: Create an app with glide or adalo which would be very simple and take a low amount of code.

Choice 3: Chatgpt would just create a super simple coded version for me if I wanted to have my won custom app. I think the potential for growth was the thing that pulled me towards the last option.

There was just one problem, I was kind against Ai built things. I support Ai assistance but not replacement. I still believe that everything should have some kind of direct NEED HUMAN INFLUENCE.

fastforward 5 months and it an actual real thing now that I couldn't be more proud of. I genuinely believe I've created something that cannot only bring value to my life but to others as well. It's a genuinely good product that cost nothing but time and effort and $99 apple dev subscription lol. Anyways trying yo to make this post too long but I can sit here a confidently say, After all this time Countless months of bug fixing, I've barely done any coding. I would say 75% of the coding was done by Ai.

With that being said I still feel entitled to take credit for this app, this wasn't build by Ai. It was built by me....with the help Ai. I'm tired of people just assuming I'm just doing a money grab using AI slop. If you actually took the time to do any kind of due diligence you would know that's the farthest from the truth. My months of confusion was real, the weeks of stress testing, days of researching, months of brainstorming that is all real, none of It is Ai. But somehow the code being written by Ai automatically writes everything else off.

Im genuinely curious on why that is?
Also realistically how scalable is being a vibe coder? I feel like at some point down the line I might have to take a boot camp or course or something g.

At the beginning of this year I'd embark on a journey I never thought I'd go on. After trading for 2 years and still not being consistently profitable I needed something to change. I wanted to start small and just make sure that i'm at least trading every day. I wanted something easily accessible, easy to use and of course free. So first thing I did was look on the App Store and surprisingly I couldn't find anything.

I then looked online for a website and came across tradezilla and websites like it. Like I said earlier I didn't really want to spend money on something so simple and just by looking at tradezilla I knew it was just way too much for me. And in trading less is more.

A few hours pass and I start venting to my boy Anuraag about how I couldn't find anything to solve my problem. He jokingly said "so make an app".

As someone with barely any coding or developing experience, I didn't take it serious. But then I thought about it again. There's nothing already existing that will solve my issue, and I was tired of writing all of my journals down in a notebook. So I thought to myself well fuck it, lets see if Its hard to make an app.

So I went to chatgbt and asked how hard it would be to create a simple app. I described how I wanted it to function and it gave me 3 options.

Choice 1. make a google form, which would take no coding but it wouldn't feel like a real app. (Honestly looking back now this was probably the best choice for what I needed at the moment but I had little interest in it for some reason)

Choice 2: Create an app with glide or adalo which would be very simple and take a low amount of code.

Choice 3: Chatgpt would just create a super simple coded version for me if I wanted to have my won custom app. I think the potential for growth was the thing that pulled me towards the last option.

There was just one problem, I was kind against Ai built things. I support Ai assistance but not replacement. I still believe that everything should have some kind of direct NEED HUMAN INFLUENCE.

fastforward 5 months and it an actual real thing now that I couldn't be more proud of. I genuinely believe I've created something that cannot only bring value to my life but to others as well. It's a genuinely good product that cost nothing but time and effort and $99 apple dev subscription lol. Anyways trying yo to make this post too long but I can sit here a confidently say, After all this time Countless months of bug fixing, I've barely done any coding. I would say 75% of the coding was done by Ai.

With that being said I still feel entitled to take credit for this app, this wasn't build by Ai. It was built by me....with the help Ai. I'm tired of people just assuming I'm just doing a money grab using AI slop. If you actually took the time to do any kind of due diligence you would know that's the farthest from the truth. My months of confusion was real, the weeks of stress testing, days of researching, months of brainstorming that is all real, none of It is Ai. But somehow the code being written by Ai automatically writes everything else off.

Im genuinely curious on why that is?
Also realistically how scalable is being a vibe coder? I feel like at some point down the line I might have to take a boot camp or course or something g.

Trading is so much more than P&L.

You can have every stat in the world win rate, avg trade, total gains and still have no idea why you're actually winning or losing. Most traders ride a strategy until it stops working, then wonder what went wrong.

The ones who last long enough to build real wealth? They understand something different.

It's not just about how you trade. It's about why.

The conditions you trade in matter. Your sleep the night before matters. Whether you're calm or stressed when you open your charts matters. Whether you followed your plan or revenge traded after a loss matters. These aren't soft variables. They show up directly in your P&L, whether you're tracking them or not.

Some traders work best under pressure. Some need a slow morning and a clear head. Some fall apart after two losing days in a row. Whatever your conditions are, there's a version of you that trades at your best — and a version that shouldn't be near a chart.

The problem is most traders never identify the difference. They just trade and hope.

I originally built Nexlog as a simple trade logging app and it only had one 2 functions. It would ask me if I traded that day, just a simple yes or no. I would answer, it logged it. Then it would go onto a calendar showing me which days I traded and which days I didn't. I built it to keep me accountable, but I couldn't imagine how far I would take this project.

Nexlog is now a trading journal that tracks your psychology alongside your trades mood, sleep, confidence, stress, discipline..etc and compiles that data into a score that directly reflects what your past performance says about your current conditions.

The chart above is data from my own testing. High psychology score days averaged +$288. Low score days averaged -$244. That's a $532 difference, not from a better strategy, but from better self-awareness.

Knowing why you win or lose lets you stop guessing and start adjusting. You tweak the habits, the routines, the mindset and the results follow.

Nexlog is currently in beta on TestFlight.

If you're serious about your trading, it costs nothing and your data is YOURS, link in bio. 👇

u/nexlogbyzay | nexlogbyzay on X, TikTok & Instagram

Trading is so much more than P&L.

You can have every stat in the world win rate, avg trade, total gains and still have no idea why you're actually winning or losing. Most traders ride a strategy until it stops working, then wonder what went wrong.

The ones who last long enough to build real wealth? They understand something different.

It's not just about how you trade. It's about why.

The conditions you trade in matter. Your sleep the night before matters. Whether you're calm or stressed when you open your charts matters. Whether you followed your plan or revenge traded after a loss matters. These aren't soft variables. They show up directly in your P&L, whether you're tracking them or not.

Some traders work best under pressure. Some need a slow morning and a clear head. Some fall apart after two losing days in a row. Whatever your conditions are, there's a version of you that trades at your best — and a version that shouldn't be near a chart.

The problem is most traders never identify the difference. They just trade and hope.

I originally built Nexlog as a simple trade logging app and it only had one 2 functions. It would ask me if I traded that day, just a simple yes or no. I would answer, it logged it. Then it would go onto a calendar showing me which days I traded and which days I didn't. I built it to keep me accountable, but I couldn't imagine how far I would take this project.

Nexlog is now a trading journal that tracks your psychology alongside your trades mood, sleep, confidence, stress, discipline..etc and compiles that data into a score that directly reflects what your past performance says about your current conditions.

The chart above is data from my own testing. High psychology score days averaged +$288. Low score days averaged -$244. That's a $532 difference, not from a better strategy, but from better self-awareness.

Knowing why you win or lose lets you stop guessing and start adjusting. You tweak the habits, the routines, the mindset and the results follow.

Nexlog is currently in beta on TestFlight.

If you're serious about your trading, it costs nothing and your data is YOURS, link in bio. 👇

u/nexlogbyzay | nexlogbyzay on X, TikTok & Instagram

Trading is so much more than P&L.

You can have every stat in the world win rate, avg trade, total gains and still have no idea why you're actually winning or losing. Most traders ride a strategy until it stops working, then wonder what went wrong.

The ones who last long enough to build real wealth? They understand something different.

It's not just about how you trade. It's about why.

The conditions you trade in matter. Your sleep the night before matters. Whether you're calm or stressed when you open your charts matters. Whether you followed your plan or revenge traded after a loss matters. These aren't soft variables. They show up directly in your P&L, whether you're tracking them or not.

Some traders work best under pressure. Some need a slow morning and a clear head. Some fall apart after two losing days in a row. Whatever your conditions are, there's a version of you that trades at your best — and a version that shouldn't be near a chart.

The problem is most traders never identify the difference. They just trade and hope.

I originally built Nexlog as a simple trade logging app and it only had one 2 functions. It would ask me if I traded that day, just a simple yes or no. I would answer, it logged it. Then it would go onto a calendar showing me which days I traded and which days I didn't. I built it to keep me accountable, but I couldn't imagine how far I would take this project.

Nexlog is now a trading journal that tracks your psychology alongside your trades mood, sleep, confidence, stress, discipline..etc and compiles that data into a score that directly reflects what your past performance says about your current conditions.

The chart above is data from my own testing. High psychology score days averaged +$288. Low score days averaged -$244. That's a $532 difference, not from a better strategy, but from better self-awareness.

Knowing why you win or lose lets you stop guessing and start adjusting. You tweak the habits, the routines, the mindset and the results follow.

Nexlog is currently in beta on TestFlight.

If you're serious about your trading, it costs nothing and your data is YOURS, link in bio. 👇

u/nexlogbyzay | nexlogbyzay on X, TikTok & Instagram

For the last couple months I've been developing Nexlog(a trade logging app) even though I've barely coded before in my life. At first I just wanted to make a saas that would serve me and only me. I never wanted to be an app developer or nothing of the sort. So naturally this app started out as just a simple trade tracker. Tracking which days I traded and which days I didn't.

used fair bit of Chatgpt to build it. But I did do a lot of the work myself because I just wanted to use something that I created and if I had Chatgpt just spit out some files and try not to understand what everything means then it wouldn't really fulfill what I wanted. Also the error fixing would just have to be something I figured out on my own since chatgpt would fuck the code up almost every single time. So eventually I became less reliant on AI.

It's been about 3 months, the simple app turned not to so simple and honestly i'm really proud of what I created. Even though the code was created majority through Claude and chatgpt there still so many hours of bug fixes, code architecture, idea brainstorming. Nothing but trial and error, but for some reason I still feel like im not good enough since it was made with Ai. I actually think it's a really good product and its not some Ai slop that im doing for the money. But for some reason I keep thinking into the future and how coding with Ai could limit how high I can actually go.

Do you guys feel this same kind of imposter syndrome?

I’ve been trading for about 2 years now which still makes me a baby lol. Anyways i’ve always made an emphasis on taking detailed notes on the way i trade and try and focus on psychology and just my mental state while trading. Over time though, i’ve found it really annoying to manually write everything down and it’s hard trying to sift thought all of that info sometimes. Some people recommended using excel or something like that but i feel like it doesn’t do or look how i want. Wondering how you guys usually keep track of ur data. Both numbers and psychology. I feel like theres nothing out there that doesn’t a really good job at tracking both.

I have been working on a solution recently. Curious if anyone wants to see it.

Beginner app developer, made a Trade Logging app. I feel like features that justify charging money just aren’t done yet or added yet. I feel like a freemium model kinda makes sense. What do y’all think?

So this is my first time ever programming anything meant for use outside of myself. Usually I’ll spend months testing things myself to ensure theres no bugs and everything works the way it’s supposed to. But now since I’m working on something I’m planning to release I’m not sure if i should keep it unreleased until i’ve had some people test it outside of myself or should i just release it and test fix things as i go.