Show HN: My first dev project. Feedback?

1 quantdev1 2 8/14/2025, 1:09:15 PM github.com ↗
Important context:

This project took 130 hours ± 5 hours from start to finish.

Before starting, I had zero experience or knowledge of:

1. Coding (knew that Python was a language and that's it)

2. Financial microstructure (didn't know what VWAP or option contracts were; let alone greeks, calls/puts, Bayesian optimization, etc.)

3. Tooling (Github, Postgres, Docker, Cursor, CLIs, etc.)

4. Software engineering principles/best practices

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Questions I have:

1. Is the code objectively decent? I passed logic in plain English to AI, step-by-step, and tested before layering more

2. Is learning these domains and going from 0 to 1 in ~130 hours good - or laughably bad?

3. Does this signal any sort of nascent talent in the areas of SWE or quant finance?

(I'm trying to get an early signal of if I should continue to explore a career change. Or if I'm out of my depth.)

Any feedback would be massively appreciated.

Happy to provide more details/context :)

Comments (2)

robin_reala · 1h ago
You’ve got a copyright statement, but if the system is AI generated you don’t have any copyright on it (in the US at least, and some other markets), so you might want to remove that.
quantdev1 · 1h ago
Thanks - I'll look into that!

I doubt it's something I'll need to worry about though, haha