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HodlBot
Company blog · hodlbot.io/blogeconomicsdata
HodlBot is the company blog at hodlbot.io, writing about economics and data. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Show HN: Automatically Index the Top 20 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A crypto index tool that builds indexes of top market-cap coins from exchange APIs such as Binance, with daily, weekly or monthly rebalancing. The comments are builder pitches, not discussion of writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Automatically Index the Top 20 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-19
- Hacking Growth from Zero to $2k MRR2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-23
What Hacker News says?
I built a way to enable users to index the cryptocurrency market via exchange APIs and have been operating it for about 3 years now. We've done about 100M in transactions. Some of the indices we built were a top 20 by market cap (10% cap), top 30 by squared root market cap. If you guys want to check it out: https://www.hodlbot.io
Comment linking /
on “S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021”Submitted Show HN: Automatically Index the Top 20 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI built a portfolio management tool for cryptocurrency investors. I was able to get to $2k MRR in the first month with a MVP without quitting my job. Here’s how i did it: https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/zero-to-two-thousand-mrr-in-one-...
Comment linking /blog/zero-to-two-thousand-mrr-in-one-month
on “Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?”Submitted Hacking Growth from Zero to $2k MRR as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI decided to quit my full-time job in Feb and go 100% start-up. Two of the largest risks I considered before taking the plunge was career risk, and financial risk. For financial risk, I’m from Waterloo Canada, which is a relatively low-cost area. I’m doing some part-time contracting to pay off the bills just to break even. I am okay to lose out on the opportunity cost of earning more money at a full-time job. I trea…
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on “Ask HN: How did you start your business?”Submitted Analysis of Slippage on the Most Popular Cryptocurrency Exchange as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey guys, Last time this came up, I shared an algo I made to automatically index across the top 20 coins. Since then I made a hosted version so anyone can use. It works on top of Binance. Plus you can automatically rebalance daily, weekly or monthly. I’ll drop a link here if anyone wants to check it out. Right now, it is free. https://www.hodlbot.io
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on “Coinbase opens its crypto index fund to accredited U.S. investors”Submitted Facebook's Libra – The Plan for World Domination as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey everyone! I’m Anthony the founder of HodlBot. I’ve been working on HodlBot the last year with two other co-founders, completely bootstrapping our way to $100M in executed trades with +10,000 users across 80 countries. As big fans of indexing & passive investing, we initially created HodlBot because we were frustrated there weren’t any simple indexing solutions out there for everyday investors. Historically in th…
Comment linking /blog/when-does-portfolio-rebalancing-improve-returns
on “Show HN: HodlBot – Cryptocurrency Portfolio Management Tool”Submitted Correlations Between Top Coins and the Cryptocurrency Market Dropped in 2019 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFounder of HodlBot here. For better or for worse, we named the project after the HODL meme as an ode to the early investors of cryptocurrency. Out of curiosity, we mined every mention of the comment HODL on Reddit from 2017-2018 and looked at how the average # mentions of HODL were affected by price volatility. https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/how-cryptocurrency-prices-affect...
Comment linking /blog/how-cryptocurrency-prices-affect-the-number-of-hodl-comments-on-reddit
on “Show HN: HodlBot – Cryptocurrency Portfolio Management Tool”