A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes
Details
- External ID
- 48281983
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- A website that tracks every stock trade Congress makes
- Website domain
- kadoa.com
- Launched
- May 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 63
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8594507269789984
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Congressional trading data is relatively commoditized, but I couldn't find any open-source version with the features I wanted.The data is lagged (median 28 days from trade to disclosure, and 19% miss this deadline), but there's still interesting patterns to explore.Repo: https://github.com/kadoa-org/congress-trading-monitorLet me know if you have any suggestions for improvements!
Enrichment
- Theme
- financial intelligence and trading tools
- Vertical
- Government
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- track congressional stock trades
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a data pipeline that scrapes public STOCK Act financial disclosure filings, stores them in a database, and displays them via a standard interactive dashboard.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Unusualwhales - provides same data with insight
Concerns raised: Shell companies and family connections hide actual trades, Reporting deadline too long (45 days) - should be instant, Disclosure loopholes allow circumventing transparency requirements, Unclear if portfolio numbers are real or imaginary
Feature requests: Add political affiliation column, Pre-announcement of buy/sell orders (1 business day advance), Fix cmd+click functionality, Include congress staffers and second-level family members, Clarify data sources
Competitors
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Attention rank: #15 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 199 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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