By Elliot Gulliver-Needham Neo-broker investment platform Lightyear has launched a full web application in an attempt to compete with popular platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown. While other start-up mobile platforms (known as ‘neo-brokers’) have begun to explore moving to desktop to compete with platform giants like Hargreaves Lansdown and AJ Bell, they have struggled to make the move to web. Other neo-brokers such as Freetrade still have their app in beta, while BUX has not yet launched one. Lightyear, which launched as a mobile app in 2020 and has been experimenting with a beta since last…