Forget Rigid Stock Screeners
A Universal Query API for Financial Data
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HN · launched Sep 7, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: stock and market analysis software · 355 launches, 42 in the last 7 days ▲ +11% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Fintech
- Data infrastructure
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #439 of 1139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
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