How we used the Nodejs Twilio library, NestJS, and Postgres to build an image sharing microservice: Part 2 of 3

Intro (If you read this in the first post feel free to skip to the next section. If you missed the first post, you should head back there to get started by following this link) Hey everyone - in this series of posts we're going to show you how we set up a simple MMS image sharing service. This is similar to the service that we use at HypeRider to drive our daily newsletter For those of you…

How we used the Nodejs Twilio library, NestJS, and Postgres to build an image sharing microservice: Part 1 of 3

Intro Hey everyone - in this series of posts we're going to show you how we set up a simple MMS image sharing service. This is similar to the service that we use at HypeRider to drive our daily newsletter For those of you unfamiliar, we at HypeRider run a sentiment driven stock newsletter. We started by listening to Reddit and Twitter and reporting what people were saying about stocks. But…

Meet Ralph

Monkey Business Primates have long dominated human history, from our genealogical studies of our own evolution, to childhood anthems, to cartoons, to the earliest days of the space race. The glory days of Rafiki delivering kings while Elton John serenades us are recently overshadowed by new developments of Apes in our society. Life was simpler then. We grabbed adulthood by the horns and re…

The YOLO Curve aka our own Broken Market Hypothesis

"Funny" Math A lot of statistics is funny math to many people; in its simplest form, statistics seeks to describe a series of events and create order where people think there is chaos. This makes it the perfect tool for identifying, and finding ways to predict outcomes that are hard to understand from a macro level. This is you, the retail community - a community looking to take it to the big…

The Hype Window Hypothesis

monke Hype-othesis We began by creating a hypothesis that there was a way to statistically model a series of metrics that would indicate when a stock would fit the bill of YOLO. Our hypothesis was driven by the fact that the magnitude of retail traders on social platforms had demonstrated that it could arbitrage against the big players. Often the big players have more capital, axioms they adhere…

And We’re Live...

Here we are... Just a couple of dudes on a mission to do the things we love, that is, solving problems and writing code.  Starting out as a passion project, Hype Rider has evolved to a platform providing daily insights for all of our users. From day one, our goal has been to hone in on what drives the market in today’s age of social media engagement.  The GME phenomenon was unlike anything anyone…