#268 – Trading Stocks, Quitting Amazon, and Making $20k/Month with Yahia Bakour of Stock Alarm

Alright. We should probably introduce you. You are Yahia Bakur, the founder of Stockarm. Am I pronouncing that right? Yes. The both sides. You are, you're super young. I think what's inspirational about you is the fact that you're only 23 years old. You've been working on Stock Alarm for three years now. So you you started this when you're 20 or 19 in college, and you just recently quit your job. You're a software engineer at Amazon. You're making $250 a year, and you've taken the leap to work full time on Stock Alarm, which is making $20 a month, so you're killing it there too. I think that's pretty rare to hear an indie hacker succeeding so wildly at your age, and it's pretty inspirational to see. So welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Thank you. You know what I was doing at 20 years old? I was going to bars with a fake ID. I was trying to seem like I actually knew how to order. So, like, I'd go there and there would be, like, some cute girl, and, like, I would stand. And, like, the bartender wouldn't see me because I was too short, and I was, like, too timid. And yet you're, like, 20 years old, like, running a business, making 20 making making grands, like, making business decisions. I'm happy I didn't have friends like you who made me feel like shit. I tried to have balance, actually. I think my idea was taken somewhere in Jersey, so not too far off. But yeah. So let's talk about your your product, Stock Alarm. I'll try to describe it, Yahia, and you tell me if I'm if I'm getting this right. So let's say that I am trading stocks. Obviously, that can be really time consuming to do, especially if I'm, like, a day trader or something. I might be watching 10 or 20 different stocks, and I wanna buy and sell them at different prices. And so I'm just watching and clicking refresh on the page over and over and over again all day so I know when to buy and sell. Enter stock alarm. You know, that process is a huge waste of time. But if I download your app or I sign up for your website, then suddenly I can set alerts. I can tell Stock Alarm, hey. Notify me when this stock hits this price. You know? And then I can buy or sell it, and I'm no longer having to do all this manual checking myself. I'm just getting automatic notifications via email or a phone call or a text message. And now I can just go buy stocks and not have to do this whole sort of time consuming process. And so that, I think, is the main benefit, as I understand it, of your app, Stock Alarm. Yep. That's pretty much it. The whole point of it was to avoid that feeling of, you you know, you're …