![]() ![]() I think, in past few years, Android app developers in Malaysia haven’t actually paid much attention to user experience. What can you tell us about the app industry in Malaysia? To me, it is still far from complete yet. The process itself, for JStock Android, it took 4 months full-time to complete. That was what I was trying to get towards with JStock Android. If there is any difficulty or complication in the creation process, I think it would be, how can we allow users to complete complicated tasks in a simple manner. A good app is defined by simplicity in my opinion. I think the best way to put it, is this, it is very hard to create a good app. This is a question that a lot of people ask often. Obviously, with JStock Android we’re trying to go more commercial, so more traditional means of advertising will be used there. They view our intentions as altruistic, instead of advertising. Since JStock is a free stock market software and being non-commercial in nature, people welcomed our announcements. Whenever we have a new release, we will announce it in several open source software related forum and stock market forum. How did you garner the user base for JStock initially? ![]() JStock was born out of practicality, and innovation and user experience are the incentives driving its growth. Most importantly, it is free, we even go as far as to provide free mobile message alerts and I also ensure that users can contribute by making the source open. There is seamless mobile and desktop integration. It is incredibly easy to use, it was designed with the avoidance of the annoying complexities of many of the alternatives provided by many firms in mind. Without spending too much time on it, I will name a few firstly, the software covers a wide spectrum with 26 countries and their respective stock exchange covered. I think there are many things that sets it apart. Obviously there are many stock market softwares out there, what sets yours apart from others? It was only recently, I decided to make the software even more accessible by introducing it to the mobile devices, starting firstly with Android which is now the widely used mobile system. This gave me immense motivation to continue developing and enhancing JStock during my spare time. There came a point, when I started to realize there were others out there, who loved to use this software. So, what I did was, I decided to open the source code to the public, simulatenosuly, continuing to enhance it. But as a user, I really thought it was inadequate in the sense that it didn’t actually meet many of my needs. My broker firm had already provided me one. ![]() During that time, I was investing in stocks and I really needed an easy-to-use tool in assisting me in managing my stock portfolio. JStock was born after the cancellation of a part-time freelance project of mine, when my client dropped out. Selected features for the app are free but advanced features are only available through a one time purchase. ![]() Post-dating this software on the operating systems is JStock Android which runs on Android, as the name suggests. Absolutely free in terms of price, and even more specifically, freedom in accessing and modifying source codes. So, there is JStock, the free market software which runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. However, to describe it as, ‘just a tool’, is inaccurate because JStock actually consists of 2 products or forms. In a nutshell, JStock is a resource, or better to be described as a tool, which makes your investment of stocks fun and easy. Most of his software experience had been on desktop and mobile software, which created the requisite foundation that led to the birth of JStock, in its current form.Īs part of App Week at the Asian Entrepreneur, the team speaks to Yan about creating JStock and how it is like working on the tech-side of things.Ĭould you explain what JStock is for those out there who have not yet used it. Prior to JStock, Yan has been working in the software development industry for 10 years. Yan Cheng Cheok is the Managing Director of Yocto Enterprise and the founder of JStock, an investment analysis tool that is highly utilized and popular with many investors and financial analysts all over the world. ![]()
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