Capitol Alpha Machine
Free Mac screensavers built from congressional trade data
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3 free macOS screensavers made from real U.S. congressional stock-trading disclosures. Each one is a scene from Capitol Alpha, a generative data piece in the stark black-and-white style of Ryoji Ikeda — pure black, monochrome white, monospace HUD, flat geometry, no glow. - The Ledger — disclosed trades scroll as a live register - Returns Spectrum — a spectrogram of trade timing and returns - Policy Proximity — committee jurisdiction mapped against the sectors members trade in
PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 72 upvotes (top 2%) · 1 view
Niche: live wallpaper applications · 91 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Government
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- GitHub
- Tech
- Apple
- Digital Art
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Could you build this?
Yes The screensavers are generative visuals driven by public congressional disclosure data, which can be scraped and parsed, then rendered in a macOS screensaver bundle with standard graphics code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 27 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 28 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 153 days after the earliest competitor.
- Congress Trades · ph · 2026-10-28 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- CapitolStockWatch · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- AlphaYou · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes · hn · 2026-05-26 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Bourse: Insider Trades & News · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Martian Alpha · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- TradeStar Insider · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Stocka · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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