I worked with 6 other redditors that I met on here on an algorithmic crypto trading platform for nearly 2 years, and we're actually releasing it in full next month

This is probably on of the main reasons why I love being part of this community. I like a good shitpost as much as the next guy, but where I think this community truly shines, is its ability of bringing people together.

This started in March 2021 when I shared on Open Source trading algorithm that I had made, that was supposed to detect the most volatile coins on Binance and algorithmically place a trade. You could for instance tell it to do stuff like: "Buy any coin that gains more than 3% within 5 minutes". You would then be able to also give it a stop loss, take profit and a trailing stop loss. The post blew up a the time and a lot of people wanted to get involved with the project. The GitHub repository (ie source code) for the project quickly gained over 3000 stars and became one of the top repos on Gh at the time.

That's when 6 other redditors alongside myself identified this as a real opportunity to build something great and have some fun in the process. A lot of the people that wanted to get involved via GitHub wanted an easier way to use the tool, as learning Python and running code is not very user friendly.

So we thought we would be building a user friendly version of the Volatility bot. In time however, the scope of the project kept on growing, and as we figured that by some rare coincidence, we're all actually nice people and more importantly we're all trustworthy, we decided to take this project to the next level. Not only that, but it also turned that that we all had a unique set of of skills required to actually establish and scale a business. Between us we had dev-ops, accounting, operations, software engineering and marketing covered. We were all also relatively knowledgeable about about cryptocurrency and trading in general, so it was the perfect coincidence I guess haha.

Since we could run a business between us, we decided to bite the bullet and do just that. That naturally required all of us to dox ourselves and send sensitive information back and forth. I am happy to report that no identities were stolen.

Fast forward through 20 months of development, a closed beta and an open beta, and our application is finally one month away from an actual full release. In more than one way, this project would probably never seen the light of day had it not been for this very subreddit. We named the application AESIR because because we all like Norse mythology and we incorporated the main feature that we started from (the volatility bot) but we also added a lot of other features on top of that such as: using TradingView Indicators, basically infinite testing of Indicator logic and social / copy trading as well.

The application is currently available for everyone to use in Paper Trading mode (meaning that you can run demo trades with fake money) as we ensure that everything works as it should in the backstage. Some people have been given early access to live trading to assess the stability, and it looks like we'll be ready to open it up to everyone in about a month's time.

It's been really fun working on it and we can't wait to actually launch this thing.

Open Beta is till ongoing, and if you're curious to check it out or find out more you can jump in on our website:
https://aesircrypto.com/ or join our subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/aesirofficial/

That's all - I thought it would be cool to share the story as well as what we managed to build so far. Thanks :)