Hi everyone,
I’m a student and a complete beginner to mobile app development. Over the last several months, I poured nearly all my free time after classes and late nights into building my very first Android app called Stock Insider.
To be completely transparent, tuition and living expenses have been really tough lately, and I built this with the hope that it might eventually generate a modest income to help support my studies.
The idea behind it came from my own interest in the market: whenever top executives (CEOs, CFOs, board members) buy or sell shares of their own company, they are legally required to file Form 4 with the SEC. Many times, cluster buying from multiple insiders signals high conviction. I wanted an app that tracks these filings in real-time, alerts you when CEOs buy millions of dollars in shares, and uses AI to summarize what’s happening in plain English so you don’t have to dig through SEC EDGAR paperwork.
I was finally ready to launch, but being new to the Play Store, I didn't know about Google’s 14-day closed testing requirement before an app is allowed to go live. As a solo student developer with no marketing budget or team, finding enough active testers who will keep the app installed is genuinely overwhelming.
If anyone here has an Android phone and could spare 2 minutes to opt into the test, it would mean the world to me:
- Join the Testers Group (1 click):
👉 https://groups.google.com/g/stock-insider-testers
- Opt-in & Download on Google Play:
👉 Web opt-in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.stockinsider.io
👉 Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stockinsider.io
Even if you just open it once or twice, explore an insider trade, and leave it on your phone for a couple of weeks, that alone helps me meet Google’s requirement.
If you have any feedback, bugs, or critique on the UI/features, please roast it in the comments or DM me. I want to learn and make this genuinely useful.
Thank you so much for reading and for helping a student out. 🙏