Forget Rigid Stock Screeners
A Universal Query API for Financial Data
Details
- External ID
- 49596033
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Forget Rigid Stock Screeners
- Website domain
- financialdata.net
- Launched
- Sept. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5853269537480064
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- algorithmic trading bots and platforms
- Vertical
- Fintech
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- query api for financial data
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The universal REST query API layer is standard web development, but providing comprehensive, normalized real-time and historical financial market datasets requires expensive licensing and heavy data-pipeline infrastructure.
What it would actually take: While dynamic SQL generation or query parsing (e.g., via PostgreSQL/ClickHouse) is simple, sourcing and ingesting corporate financials, tick data, and global exchange feeds requires institutional exchange agreements (or upstream feeds like Polygon/FactSet), high-throughput Kafka/Flink pipelines, and strict financial normalization. Building this demands financial data engineering and enterprise compliance.
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Competitors
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Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
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