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Hi HN,

I’ve been building a crypto market & portfolio visualization site in my spare time and wanted to share it here to get honest feedback.

The focus is on visual explanations and “what-if” scenarios rather than price charts only. For example:

• indexed performance comparisons (e.g. BTC vs ETH over arbitrary ranges)

• market cap & dominance breakdowns

• what if you held or missed the best trading days

• portfolio tracking with cost basis

• simple strategy simulators (HODL vs DCA, sell & buy back, coin flip)

The site is free right now. I’m mainly trying to understand: - which parts are genuinely useful vs noise

- what feels confusing or unnecessary

- what you’d personally want next (or would never use)

Link, one viz: https://blockviz.xyz/price/daily-returns and one simulation: https://blockviz.xyz/simulation/coin-flip

Happy to answer questions about implementation, data sources, or design decisions. Critical feedback very welcome.


I’ve been building a crypto market visualization and simulation tool because I kept running into the same problem: TradingView is great for charts, but it’s hard to answer simple “what-if” questions like would rotating into another coin actually have helped or did trimming and buying back improve outcomes, or just feel good in hindsight. So I started building tools that simulate these scenarios directly on historical data. For example: - flipping from coin A into coin B and back again over a chosen period - selling part of a position and buying back later after a drawdown

I’m still early and adding ideas as I go, but it’s already helped me questions I had.

Examples: - Coin flip simulation: https://www.blockviz.xyz/simulation/coin-flip - Sell & buy-back simulation: https://www.blockviz.xyz/simulation/sell-buy-back

Curious if others here run into similar “this felt right, but did it actually help?” questions.


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