I Spent Over 3,000 Hours Developing an AI-Powered Finance Assistant. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and The Now

# The Ugly

I would consider NexusTrade my life’s work. It started off as a passion project primarily designed for myself. I called it “The Money Printer” because the idea was that by using an automated platform, I would “print money”. I remember creating a thread on Reddit’s algotrading subreddit. And the people **LOVED** it.

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[The first iteration of the AlgoTrading System: “The Money Printer”](https://preview.redd.it/f55z6u59vqjc1.png?width=2998&format=png&auto=webp&s=355d3cff64a08bd32d9ccac721997eff46834f9e)

The platform was clunky, ugly, and rigid. It wasn’t extensible, and it was **literally** …

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