Buying · 6 min
Why the bot you bought does not work
A marketplace bot with a beautiful backtest is not lying to you exactly. It is showing you the one configuration, out of thousands tried, that happened to fit history.
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The decisions before the code: whether to automate at all, build or buy, what a bot should cost and how to specify one.
A marketplace bot with a beautiful backtest is not lying to you exactly. It is showing you the one configuration, out of thousands tried, that happened to fit history.
Most clients never open the repository. It still changes the relationship, because everything that can go wrong with a vendor is survivable when you hold the code.
Every arrangement where someone else's infrastructure trades your account concentrates risk in a place you cannot see. There is no technical reason to accept it.
Small size limits how much a bug costs. It does not make the bug appear on schedule, and the bugs that matter only show up in situations you cannot arrange on demand.
We guarantee that the software behaves as specified. We do not guarantee what the market does with it. Anyone collapsing those two is selling something other than software.
The comparison people make is a subscription against a development quote. The comparison that matters includes what you can change, what you own, and what happens when the strategy needs to move.
We turn down or rescope a meaningful share of enquiries. Here is the list of conditions that make automation the wrong next step, written so you can check yourself before paying anyone.
The same sentence — “a Bybit bot” — covers a week of work and six months of it. Here is what moves the estimate, so you can shape the scope instead of receiving a number.
They are the same six every time, they are all cheap to avoid, and each one is usually discovered the expensive way.
A good spec is not long. It answers a fixed set of questions precisely, and writing it will improve your strategy before anyone writes a line of code.
We write about what we build. If you need it built, get in touch — scoping is free.