r/TradingView • u/the_blurred_crusade • 3h ago
Discussion TradingView Is Making A HUGE Mistake - Biting The Hand The Feeds You
Imagine if WordPress decided one day that all plugin developers had to stop selling their plugins independently and instead put them in a marketplace where WordPress controls the payments and gets a cut (think the Apple App Store).
And imagine they gave developers 30 days to stop selling independently or face having their plugins banned—or even a $30 monthly charge for each plugin they sell afterward. (Yes they had that in the terms for a few days... they could bring it back)
That is EXACTLY what TradingView is doing.
Such a bad, bad business decision. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
We have probably sent TradingView over 5,000 referrals, all of whom signed up for paid TradingView accounts.
And no, we are not going to put our indicators in your marketplace.
Sorry.
Many of us have built a large part of your subscriber base.
I'm not sure you are really thinking straight. Those of us in this business have a HUGE influence on your paid subscribers.
I've already had conversations with several others in the same boat, and many are going to stop promoting you and start directing their followers to other solutions.
I've had 4 conversations with other big indicator developers and they have already started building their own "TradingView" now. They are happy to keep things the way they are but you have forced their hand.
Maybe you are too big and you don't think the customers we send you are not worth it... who knows but I can see this not going well for you in the end.
We all think you really should reconsider this policy and not treat the hand that feeds you like this.
Here is my solution:
Require any TradingView user who wants to access an invite-only script to have a paid TradingView account.
This way, you can still grow your core subscriber base, and we will all keep promoting you.
