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Should be back up now. Got hit with way more traffic than expected.
Interesting idea...tracking which execs move together or which board members overlap across companies. Maybe in next turn
100% - will be cool to see any recurring patterns, which sectors churn most, how comp varies by industry, etc. Gets more useful as the dataset grows.
Totally fair. The value is just that it's built and working, you get the data in real time without having to set anything up yourself.
It's definitely vibecodeable but there's a decent amount of edge cases and ongoing maintenance that add up. I'm sure an actual engineer could do it way better. I just wanted the product, couldn't find one at a reasonable price, so I built it.
thats a bug. thanks for flagging. The company name is there but gets cut off on mobile. Will fix the layout.
Yeah been thinking about that. A delayed public feed or an API with a lag makes sense. The real-time piece is where the paid value is so anything older than a few weeks/months could be opened up
Built it myself. The filing structure is somewhat consistent enough to parse programmatically, then an LLM handles the unstructured parts (with a lot of trial and error)
Thanks - currently the name just links to a basic linkedin search but this is a good idea for a future feature
The explore page is free and always will be. The main site shows real time changes too, just capped at a few recent ones. The $50 is for the full feed, alerts, search, comp data. Comparable to other sales intel tools but I hear you on letting people try more before paying. Gonna work on that.
Agreed, the big providers like Bloomberg cover this space with way more depth. I'm building for the teams that can't justify those budgets (small sales teams, independent recruiters, solo advisors)
you are absolutely right - filings have a ton of signals beyond just the exec changes. Market entries, risk factor changes, material agreements. Lot of room to expand.
Thank you for the suggestion
Back up now...first time getting real traffic. Appreciate the patience.
Thank you very much. Great call
I originally built it to track competitive moves in a specific sector. Turns out sales teams and recruiters get the most value from it as new exec hires are a strong outreach signal
The 8-K text gets run through an LLM to extract the structured fields. It handles the variation in format pretty well. For amendments, the system picks up the amended filing and updates the record — the comp figures sometimes only appear in the amendment.
Posted by
porsche959 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @08:51AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://tracksuccession.com/explore
Built this solo. It watches SEC filings for executive and board changes, extracts the data, and shows it in real time. 2,100+ changes in the last 30 days. The comp data is interesting: average new CEO total comp is $8.4M across 284 appointments. The /explore page is fully open, no login needed.
interested in what the use cases/applications could be
Posted by
porsche959 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:44AM
from the blog.toyota.co.uk dept.
Might have been more surprising had we not had the mass adoption of smart home speakers like alexa, siri and google assistant
call me a millennial but a 4 day work week does not sound crazy. sounds like thats where we should be heading.
Honestly Walmart has gotten so much better at competing versus a couple of years ago. Most items reach my door within 2-3 days (in nyc), and their customer service is now on par with amazon prime, which is to say, amazon has gotten much worse. I did not mind paying for the convenience of a "dont ask, dont tell" return policy, however, amazon has gotten more strict. If i wanted that, i would rather stick to traditional retailers.
Its been said time and time again but its being able to get things done, and at a minimum being able to google the right thing. It gets harder from there, but at least thats a start.