Actually, I’m still using an LLM to write this, since English isn’t my native language (as I mentioned earlier).

It’s a pity that, unlike an LLM, you clearly didn’t grasp the reference at the end of my last message. You should probably paste it into one of them—they’ll gladly explain it to you.

Calling an enterprise-grade platform featuring a 40+ node visual graph editor, dual backtesting engines, and full multi-tenant isolation “AI slop” just because an LLM accelerated the syntax development is pure ideological gatekeeping. This “slop” objectively outperforms every proprietary $100/mo trading SaaS and basic CLI script in existence right now. If you have an actual architectural critique regarding the FastAPI/Celery setup, the PgBouncer integration, or the Redis ACL security model, I’m all ears. Otherwise, you’re just yelling at a cloud.

Evolve. Or Don’t Look Up.

That makes a lot of sense, and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain the community’s context and mindset.If the overarching sentiment is anti-corporate, then taking the core infrastructure out of the hands of proprietary, rent-seeking SaaS companies (who charge monthly fees just to hold your data) and open-sourcing it so anyone can run it on their own hardware feels like it aligns with that ethos-even if the domain itself is controversial.But putting the financial aspect completely aside: the reason I chose to build this is that the trading domain offers a level of raw engineering complexity that you rarely find in standard self-hosted apps. Handling real-time exchange WebSocket streams, fanning out market data via Redis, managing stateful Celery workers, and ensuring strict multi-tenant isolation (with JWT and Redis ACL quotas) is a massive architectural challenge. Even if you or others here have absolutely zero interest in participating in algorithmic trading, I was hoping the community might appreciate the architecture and the implementation itself.

That’s a valid legal question.

The AGPLv3 license applies to the repository as a whole (the software architecture, the visual logic blocks, the UI/UX, and the compiled system). The license is there to establish a rule: if someone takes this infrastructure, modifies it, and hosts it commercially for others, they are legally obligated to keep their modifications open-source.

That being said, I don’t harbor any illusions. I am well aware that in the real world, bad actors might just fork it, strip the license, and run a closed commercial service anyway. But having the AGPL in place is a statement of the project’s ethos and gives at least some baseline legal leverage if a larger corporation tries to blatantly rip it off.

Hi @curbstickle_lw, thank you for stepping in and for taking the time to actually look at the project instead of just auto-deleting it based on reports!

I did read the meta thread, and I completely understand the community’s frustration with closed-source, paid advertisements.

To be completely transparent about the two points you raised:

1. Yes, I just registered. I’ve been working solo on this project for the past year and was looking for a community that appreciates self-hosted alternatives to corporate SaaS platforms. Since the project is fully open-source (AGPL), completely free, and built specifically for self-hosting, I genuinely believed it aligned with the rules and the core ethos of Lemmy.
2. Federation Hub (share-by-default): The reason it connects by default is that it powers the core community features (like importing visual strategy templates from other users), rather than acting as stealth telemetry. But I want to emphasize that it is strictly privacy-by-design (no hostnames or IPs are ever stored), and anyone who wants a completely isolated, air-gapped instance can instantly disable it by setting IS_CENTRAL_HUB=true in their .env file.

I really appreciate you giving the project a fair look and making a distinction between actual open-source projects and corporate spam. I’ll gladly stick around to answer any technical questions!

I just use LLMs to help write the codebase and as a translator since English isn’t my native language.

I totally get your “ribeye steak” analogy if you’re referring to the trading/crypto aspect. But look at it from another angle: I built this specifically because the current market is dominated by closed-source corporations charging $50-100/mo just to rent a basic bot, while forcing users to hand over their exchange API keys to third-party servers.

Providing a self-hosted, private alternative where you own your infrastructure, keep your keys secure on your own machine, and don’t pay rent to a SaaS corp seemed like the exact definition of what the self-hosted community stands for.

Is the topic of financial/trading tools just completely off-limits here, even if it’s AGPL and self-hosted? Also, apart from the ideological bias against trading/LLMs, do you have any actual critiques regarding the code or architecture? I would gladly take them into consideration.