[ANN] DefiDive – A fast crypto price, news and asset management terminal

[Seal]

Filter the noise
Every morning you wake up, check the prices and wonder what has happened overnight in the market . While making your morning coffee, you load up CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Crypto Youtube, Crypto Twitter, BitcoinTalk and Discord to find out what the sentiment is. Before you know it, you have multiple browser tabs open in multiple different windows and things are a mess. (sound familiar?)

About
Lead by the frustration of existing services, a group of friends got together to work on the challenge of making a cleaner, faster crypto information portal. The goal? Present information to visitors in a clear and transparent manner that would be easy to access, fast and intuitive. Our goal is to become the homepage of every crypto investor.

We launched beta a few months ago and are now ready to show off the features we're proud of.

Our landing page
Price information is what a majority of users want, and that is exactly what they will get when visiting our homepage. Compare us to other services you currently use and let us know how we are doing.

Click here to see our homepage

News page
Categorized news. In one click, filter all of the Bitcoin related news across CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Twitter and YouTube. Simple, clean and quick. We categorize across the top 50 coins and search terms. This feature is in Beta and is great for saving time while staying on top of the latest developments in the space.

Click here to see our news page

Defi
We believe decentralized finance is a movement that is here to stay. We show the largest defi platforms helping you perform due diligence on where to access the most trusted sites. Yes that does include where to stake your WBTC!

Click here to see our DeFi page

Why
Services like Coinmarketcap are not designed for the best user experience. They are often designed to increase browsing time to show more adverts. At DefiDive, our design focus is to enable visitors get the information they want and need as quickly as possible.

The team & who we are
I’m Seal, a long time supporter and member of BitcoinTalk since early 2012. We launched our first Bitcoin startup in 2013, one of the industry’s earliest trading platforms. During our 4 year life, we brokered US $250 million in Bitcoin trades (accounting for 2% of all bitcoins in existence at the time) for over 30,000 users. In 2018, in part due to the profits we made from our crypto investments and the uncertain regulatory landscape we decided to close the trading platform making way for decentralized finance and Ethereum based apps to succeed.

Our co-founders come from backgrounds in FAANG and Investment Banking. Watch this space and follow our socials for more.

DefiDive is seed funded by its founders and has the goal of becoming the homepage of every cypto investor.

Here's a snippet of my post history and involvement in the community:
Bitcointalk’s longest running signature scheme (back in the day)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233434.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1315122

Automated trading systems I programmed and ran during 2012
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114351.0
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/06/02/meet-the-bots-that-let-you-trade-bitcoin-in-your-sleep/

DefiDive Socials
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/defidive
https://twitter.com/defi_dive
https://www.instagram.com/defidive/

Help and contribute to DefiDive
We've found the Bitcointalk community one of the most supportive communities in the space. We would love to know what features you would like to see on DefiDive and how we can improve our service. Visit our site and follow our socials for more. By working to improve crypto infrastructure, the space will expand accelerating adoption.

Visit DefiDive

[SFR10]

Compare us to other services you currently use and let us know how we are doing.

I had a quick glance and noticed the historical price chart doesn't work well for certain cryptocurrencies:

e.g.
For BTCitcoin, it doesn't seem to load anything beyond 1M, while I'm not even seeing a chart for USDT.

We would love to know what features you would like to see on DefiDive

• Ability to choose sources on the news tab and while you're at it, it'd be nice to have next and previous buttons for each of its sections ^{[as it stands, we're limited to seeing only the last 10 for each section]}.
• Alerts
• Light mode

/Bookmarked

[NeuroticFish]

The news area could need more newspaper sources, not only CoinTelegraph (I don't know, btctimes and others, although I know that if they're too many you'll end up with duplications)
Also I would suggest you keep the (news) filter between sessions (cookie?)

[agentF]

Very cool idea i love it!


Some feedback:

I can't find the Search option, the sort doesn't work on mobile tried from difference devices.

Overall the website looks great!

[Seal]

Compare us to other services you currently use and let us know how we are doing.

I had a quick glance and noticed the historical price chart doesn't work well for certain cryptocurrencies:

e.g.
For BTCitcoin, it doesn't seem to load anything beyond 1M, while I'm not even seeing a chart for USDT.

We would love to know what features you would like to see on DefiDive

• Ability to choose sources on the news tab and while you're at it, it'd be nice to have next and previous buttons for each of its sections ^{[as it stands, we're limited to seeing only the last 10 for each section]}.
• Alerts
• Light mode

/Bookmarked

Thanks for the feedback, we're working on adding more crypto price data including historical so watch this space. We're also working on caching some of the data for faster response. USDT is a tricky one as it requires us to have a fiat currency to peg against. This data will come in time and is on our todo list but might be a little while away.

The news page is our first iteration, this is being refined a lot this month.

[Seal]

The news area could need more newspaper sources, not only CoinTelegraph (I don't know, btctimes and others, although I know that if they're too many you'll end up with duplications)
Also I would suggest you keep the (news) filter between sessions (cookie?)

Thanks, we'll add BTCTimes to the list, would appreciate any other sources if the community has others.

Keeping the filter... We're working on adding filters to the URL so that you can bookmark and navigate around the site while being able to go directly back to the view you expect. We could also do this as a cookie so let us have a think on that one.

[Seal]

Very cool idea i love it!


Some feedback:

I can't find the Search option, the sort doesn't work on mobile tried from difference devices.

Overall the website looks great!

Thanks for the positive feedback. Search bar is being deployed on Monday - It'll have some really unique features which I'm quite excited about. Will post a more detailed breakdown about how it works soon.

[Seal]

The news area could need more newspaper sources, not only CoinTelegraph (I don't know, btctimes and others, although I know that if they're too many you'll end up with duplications)
Also I would suggest you keep the (news) filter between sessions (cookie?)

You asked for a way to keep news filters between sessions. We delivered this into production this morning. Filters are now added to the URL so you can bookmark a selection of filtered news that you want to see.

In the example above, we show all of the news, tweets and youtube videos that hit the filter terms Bitcoin, Ethereum, America, Uniswap and Opensea.

Thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming. More news sources incoming.

[NeuroticFish]

You asked for a way to keep news filters between sessions. We delivered this into production this morning.

While the filters are remembered as long as I navigate defidive, if I close the tab and open it again, that's lost.
I am telling this just as "debug info" in case you need it, since for me you've handled the problem gracefully with this other approach:

Filters are now added to the URL so you can bookmark a selection of filtered news that you want to see.

So yes, I've made the correct bookmark and I'm good. Thank you.
Even more, I see you have at least one more news source, very nice, keep'em coming!  


LE: can you please add (sometime in the future, no rush) also Monero to the list of coins for news/filters?

[LeGaulois]

@Seal

Can I ask how you're scraping and aggregating the news? I tried long ago to make the same thing for me but ended with horrible results :/ (yahoo pipe was so great for it)
For the social media, I guess you're using API but the websites (with no RSS)?

As for suggesting more sources, there are sooo many. BitcoinMagazine.com bitcoinist.com...
You can even think to play with google alerts

Nice challenge you're taking to compete with others because that's a huge task.

The news area could need more newspaper sources, not only CoinTelegraph (I don't know, btctimes and others, although I know that if they're too many you'll end up with duplications)

Easy to deal with duplications if Regex is used

[NeuroticFish]

The news area could need more newspaper sources, not only CoinTelegraph (I don't know, btctimes and others, although I know that if they're too many you'll end up with duplications)

Easy to deal with duplications if Regex is used

I've seen in the past a crypto news aggregator with many sources. I don't know if they were using Regex or not (heck, I don't even remember which aggregator it was), but I remember I've seen the same news in many places with somewhat different title and wording. I don't know how good can Regex handle this.

[Seal]

@Seal

Can I ask how you're scraping and aggregating the news? I tried long ago to make the same thing for me but ended with horrible results :/ (yahoo pipe was so great for it)
For the social media, I guess you're using API but the websites (with no RSS)?

As for suggesting more sources, there are sooo many. BitcoinMagazine.com bitcoinist.com...
You can even think to play with google alerts

Nice challenge you're taking to compete with others because that's a huge task.

The news area could need more newspaper sources, not only CoinTelegraph (I don't know, btctimes and others, although I know that if they're too many you'll end up with duplications)

Easy to deal with duplications if Regex is used

Hey @LeGaulois, its a difficult task scraping together all of these sources.

We use a mix of APIs and RSS feeds although as you've noticed, it is challenging as the data can be quite messy.

Some of the data sources are structured so that we can pull out headings and links but again its not easy to do consistently without it breaking often. Either way we are committed to the challenge because of how much time a properly implemented news feed aggregator can save people.

It is also on our todo list to check out google alerts and news but I'm not sure if we can make that data useful. If there are any developers who want to contribute to what we are doing then let us know.

[Seal]

The design is fairly good and overall it leave good first impression for me. However, i find few bug on your website.

1. Sort by 24h refuse to show change lower than 0%.



2. For certain coin/token, the page always show indeterminate progress bar rather than price chart.



And personally i'd rather separate category for coin and token. For example, i don't need to know USDT price remain at $1 or WBTC have similar price with BTC.

Thanks for letting us know, this has now been fixed.

[LeGaulois]

Thanks for the answer

It is also on our todo list to check out google alerts and news but I'm not sure if we can make that data useful. If there are any developers who want to contribute to what we are doing then let us know.

You can generate RSS from Google Alerts, and customize it to get only the most "notable/reputed" sources.

This is especially beneficial for the person working on the site.
Instead of adding dozens of RSS, and doing data manipulation (to avoid duplication for example), the dev only needs to add 2-3 sources, and google does the work for him.

It also allows having 'neutral' sites (forbes, bloomberg,...) instead of the always pro-cryptos (coindesk, cointelegraph,...)

Considering that your team has to do it for each crypto, the dev saves time. While adding many RSS, the worst is when you have to deal with a ton of market analysis blog posts. That's horrible to deal with

[Seal]

September Dev Updates
Since our last post, our dev team have been busy implementing a few new features (some of them as requested above):



We now have a Terminal / Search bar. Press '/' to bring it up and you will find a command list.



We've started to add custom commands. Try getting the conversion rate from one crypto to another.



And the much requested crypto search feature is now live. For rapid access you can press 'enter' once to bring up a price preview, and press 'enter' again to be taken to the detailed view of the cryptocurrency you've selected.

Our vision is to have a very powerful terminal command bar. Using it, you can navigate the whole website without using your mouse. In the pipeline are many additional features all designed to save you, the user time. If you have any requests, please let us know. Although we will not share too many details on what we are working on next, your requests may help us reprioritise and know what is important for you, the user to have.

[Seal]

Dev Update

Since our last update, FTX crashed. It's big news in the space and we noticed that everybody was looking for the same information. To save time in your daily workflow, we added a filter on our news page for FTX specific articles:


Stay up to date with the latest FTX happenings

Any further comments or suggestions welcomed.

[SFR10]

@Seal
It looks like there's a minor bug in the news tab that shows duplicate results under different sources: Screenshot
BTW, I just noticed the switch button in the conversion rate window ^{[part of the "September" update]}, doesn't have any functions attached to it.

[Seal]

@Seal
It looks like there's a minor bug in the news tab that shows duplicate results under different sources: Screenshot
BTW, I just noticed the switch button in the conversion rate window ^{[part of the "September" update]}, doesn't have any functions attached to it.

Thanks for letting us know, a patch is on its way. 

[Seal]

Dev Update - see below

[edmundduke]

The site is starting to look really nice. It feels fast and responsive.
For the Terms section i would suggest using maybe some formating within the explanation of the terms. Maybe use bold for the terms in the text, makes it easier for the eyes to grasp.
I would also suggest being a bit more active on the blog. Try to make an article a week, or bi-weekly at least. Makes you look more active and authoritative.

Overall its a nice looking site. Fast and simple but gets the info accross well.