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Nice!
Thank you!
Hey! We added several new features, including support for fixed income, commodities, and currencies.
Hey! Happy to help here -- are you having an issue with signing up for the waitlist? If you're looking for the actual software, we'll open access later this year in order of waitlist sign ups.

If you're referring to the feedback we received earlier, it was in reference to the features we described on our pre-launch website :)

Feather – Bloomberg Terminal for Retail Traders (Re-Launch After Overhaul)

Hey Hacker News!My friend and I have been working on a comprehensive investment research platform — Feather.We launched our waitlist on HN two weeks ago and received lots of feedback. With this in mind, we went back to the drawing board, wrote thousands of lines of code, and added a bunch of features. We’re now thrilled to share what we’ve been working on.Our updated platform covers 48,000...

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Right, institutional shareholders and major individual shareholders.
As far as funds, institutions, and major individuals are concerned, yes.

For each person owning, say, $10,000 of stock, no -- for practicality and privacy reasons.

Thanks for this well thought out reply. This makes a lot of sense -- really appreciate the constructiveness!
We have real-time news integrated on Feather.
Right, it provides what most retail traders are looking for in order to improve their investment performance, at a price most retail traders can afford.

We're not trying to end Bloomberg, and institutional traders of fixed income, forex, or commodities are not our focus at this time -- we're focused on building what is truly valuable, and improves the investment performance of, retail traders.

Glad to have you onboard, and please share -- you both get $100 credit, and more shares leads to earlier access!
Thanks for this very well thought-out response. Will implement much of these thoughts
Check now? Thanks for your cooperation :)
Will have international securities shortly
Thank you!
Do have analyst price targets and consensus estimates for financials, and will have sell side analysis as an option within 12 months.
Should be fixed, got lots more traffic than expected and have now patched.

Please use an email address with one of the major email providers for it to validate :)

Same day as when data such as financial statements are posted.

Real-time for stock prices, etc.

A bunch of software offers good technical analysis based on charts in the present moment.

But if you want to find the fundamental data of any imaginable company -- income statements, operating ratios (eg. Return on Capital), or even what analysts are saying -- going back decades, at a reasonable price, this is your solution.

Fair point. Entirely correct, our focus is on a different demographic.

Really appreciate the constructive feedback -- will keep it in mind for our future work :)

Have a lot of respect for YCharts.

Yes, we are significantly less expensive, and focused on providing a massive depth of data on virtually any company you can think of, including raw numbers going back decades.

We do plan to add fixed income, as well as other asset classes, in the next 12-18 months, just to be clear. Hopefully that clears up any doubts!

We're also building this for the retail trader and are focused accordingly :)

CapitalIQ is a good product, but it costs about $12,000 per year. We aim to have similar, if not better, functionality, for $99 per month -- a 90 percent cost saving.
Thanks for the feedback. We built this primarily for people who will use it to make informed trades, not plug it into code.

That said, we willl have Excel integration upon launch, and will be adding API accessibility over time.

Refinitiv is a good option if you feel the $12,500 cost per year makes sense for you. We're building this for people for whom it doesn't.

5 pages of data per month, correct. Free tier is primarily to explore what we can do for you. Trial period idea makes sense, let us get further feedback and we can do that instead of a free-forever, but restricted, tier. Thoughts, HN community?

Koyfin has had to shut itself down during market hours because they don't have the money to maintain uptime. We provide 100 percent uptime, 100 percent of the time. With us, you can count on your data being available, whenever you need it.

Stuff like mapping the location of oil barges in real time, or executing $10 billion trades in real-time. If you're not an oil trader making trades by the second or managing a $50 billion endowment or hedge fund, do you need to pay $25,000 for this? Highly likely, the answer is no.

That's where we come in -- we provide what you do need, at a price that doesn't break the bank.

Yes, messaging is a fair point.

We plan to add interactive communities and messaging to Feather. We expect a large number of well-informed investors on our platform, so the conversation should be value-add for all.

And again, goes without saying but we offer the same high quality of data as Bloomberg et al. for 5 percent of the price, and our mission really is to enable you to take your investment performance to the next level, at a price that doesn't break the bank :)

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