Potato is the place for you to think about the future and let AI unpack the investment thesis for you. Simply enter a phrase such as "we're at war with china" or "a run on the banks" and let the AI work out the stock selections for you.
Hey all, I'm Luc, the founder of Potato - a place to build out investments ideas. We see a future where AI is so powerful and our world is so complicated that AI will outgun a human with it's second and third order thinking on scenarios that affect capital markets. While this sounds a bit dystopian, we think that if we build a community to generate these ideas and have fun doing so, it'll make for a great community.
The motivation behind Potato wasn't AI, it was the massive drive towards thematic investing and the realisation as an investor myself that thematic ETFs can't be very detailed - they need liquidity to operate, they need their fees to be low enough and spreads tight. How do you invest in "driverless hydrogen cars" or "obesity prevention", broad or specific themes?
We've decided though to build a retail, fun and social product that brings these human and AI generated ideas together. Potato is a portfolio creation tool, not a broker. We don't (or intend) to allow people to trade on our platform, that seems to be a bit of a race to the bottom... instead we would like to bring Web3 to investing - short term trading and long term investing.
As a free member you’ll be able to create 3x free AI generated portfolios (aka 'baskets') and limitless human portfolios. Only AI generated baskets can be published publicly.
I'd LOVE any feedback. The product has been a big focus of ours but the unknowns are:
- Pricing, $9 a month which gets you an allocation of credits to use the AI generator. We keep weighing up a utilisation pricing model but don't beleive we're building just a 'tool', we're trying to create a platform.
- Eventually we see this pricing model is a bit more in line with the customer because we are keen to build more features that give you feedback on your portfolio.
About Potato on Product Hunt
“Your investment ideas, built with AI”
Potato launched on Product Hunt on April 20th, 2023 and earned 111 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Potato is the place for you to think about the future and let AI unpack the investment thesis for you. Simply enter a phrase such as "we're at war with china" or "a run on the banks" and let the AI work out the stock selections for you.
On the analytics side, Potato competes within Fintech, Investing and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 540.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Potato performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Potato?
Potato was hunted by Luc Pettett. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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