Weekly Wrap Up 02/11/18
List Christmas (you gave me your heart)
This week, we spread some early seasonal joy with the release of the Freetrade Christmas List! 🎄
These are the most important features we’re aiming to ship up to the holidays. It’s quite a haul of presents. Check out the full detail on the list here.
The ISA, our community’s most wanted feature, is definitely the big ticket present and our top priority. Which leads us onto…
Nicer ISA
With ISA work seriously underway, we had another beautiful sneak peek to show off. 👀
This is how the ISA account tab will look. Note the sweet bar showing the £20k annual limit for ISA contributions (that £20k is part of the ISA rules, not our limit).
Just look at those tax-free coins on the opening screen!
This Xmas, give the gift of a queue jump 🎀
A bit of seasonal goodwill here from the ever benevolent Freetrade community!
We’ve been working through the queue faster and faster in the past few weeks. Of course, some people at the top of the waitlist can’t open their accounts quite yet — either because they’re Android users or don’t currently live in the UK.
One ingenious Freetrader suggested an option to gift their access to people eager to start and we thought it was an awesome idea.
Several charitable folks have already graciously offered shared their fortune. To give or receive one of these jumps, simply fill in this form.
A new piece in our serverless stack
We’ve mentioned our super-efficient serverless stack before and, as the app expands, we’re looking to take that to the next level. We’re currently planning to integrate Google’s Cloud Composer.
This will empower us to manage the relevant data streams for stocks much more fluently.
This is especially important in anticipation of US stocks and all the new information we’ll process, such as currency conversion and different exchanges.
The people’s vote
We’ve had some great feedback for our unconventional stock descriptions in the app.
However, one of them seems to have divided the crowd:
Some people love it, others think it’s a bit too spiky. Our general rationale for our stock descriptions is here, but there’s definitely a big debate on this one in particular.
So for this description only, we’re putting it to the people i.e. the whole Freetrade community. We’ll have a poll in our next newsletter and combine this with the results of the poll in the forum.
If you can’t wait for the newsletter poll, you can join the debate and vote here.
Like all people’s votes, we’re honour bound to stick by the result. Whatever the cost!
That’s the big news for this week, folks. As always to comment and discuss, head to the community.
We’re on a mission to bring fee-free investing to Europe and beyond. 🔥
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