I've written a lot of web apps in my life. I've written my own webmail, blogging engine, feed reader, and even my own search plugin. To add to my suite of Ryo Brand web apps, I am proud to announce Ryo's Stock Portfolio App.

This is another one of those "personal itch" projects. I recently decided to take advantage of the current economic crisis and buy up some stock, mostly for the fun of it. Naturally, that means whenever I'm in the bathroom taking a dump, I'd want to use my iPhone to see how much money I've made/lost that day. I'm sure there's a nifty app that'll do just that, but I'm still running the 1.x firmware, so no 3rd party apps for me. The next obvious choice is to use a web app of some sort, but after evaluating a statistically insignificant sample of two such sites, I've concluded that all such sites are either too slow or too complex to be used on an iPhone while taking a dump.

So, as my name implies, I went and rolled my own. It's dead simple, and almost certainly faster than all the existing offerings. My portfolio page weighs in at a hefty 1503 bytes, and usually generates in under 50ms (including a curl call to a undocumented Y! Finance API). Hell, it's so fast I could probably even use it while taking a pee.

Check out this sample portfolio.