Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by ALittleLight » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 2:52 AM UTC

marban wrote: post #10

Just launched https://biztoc.com [w/ Investment from Mark Cuban]

The "toc" in the name makes me think of TikTok. But the site looks pretty reddit-like. Any similarity to TikTok or where does the toc come from?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

#12

Post by pan69 » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 2:54 AM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #11

marban wrote: post #10

Just launched https://biztoc.com [w/ Investment from Mark Cuban]

The "toc" in the name makes me think of TikTok. But the site looks pretty reddit-like. Any similarity to TikTok or where does the toc come from?

Table of Contents? I have no relation with this site but when I see "toc" I think that.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by marban » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 2:54 AM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #11

marban wrote: post #10

Just launched https://biztoc.com [w/ Investment from Mark Cuban]

The "toc" in the name makes me think of TikTok. But the site looks pretty reddit-like. Any similarity to TikTok or where does the toc come from?

Just had it in my portfolio (before TikTok), you could say it's an abbr. for Table of Contents.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

#14

Post by marban » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 2:56 AM UTC

anonu wrote: post #5

https://alltop.com/

I was the original inventor of Popurls (which Guy Kawasaki cloned as Alltop). Popurls is dead after I sold it to Idealab some ten years a go but I've recently come up with https://upstract.com

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by stickfigure » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:04 AM UTC

The top 6 articles on this site are "$X thinks $Y stock is worth $Z". It looks incredibly boring. Sorry.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by jedwhite » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:05 AM UTC

I'm a fan of HN-style information minimalism. How are you parsing the sources and ranking the display, out of interest? Are you using NewsAPI or grabbing RSS feeds directly or something like that?

Good luck. It looks good.

[Edit just saw it's stocknewsapi]

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by sen » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:08 AM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #11

marban wrote: post #10

Just launched https://biztoc.com [w/ Investment from Mark Cuban]

The "toc" in the name makes me think of TikTok. But the site looks pretty reddit-like. Any similarity to TikTok or where does the toc come from?

I read it as "Business Table of Contents" personally.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by strogonoff » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:10 AM UTC

I strongly suspect that a popular news resource focusing on stocks is liable to be overrun with bots or ‘sponsored content’, either with or without moderators’ blessing/compensation. It’s the niche where information asymmetry and financial gain are so awkwardly close.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

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Post by Scoundreller » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:24 AM UTC

strogonoff wrote: post #18

I strongly suspect that a popular news resource focusing on stocks is liable to be overrun with bots or ‘sponsored content’, either with or without moderators’ blessing/compensation. It’s the niche where information asymmetry and financial gain are so awkwardly close.

Sounds like the iOS stocks app. Just junk robo-articles it pulls in.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

#20

Post by mjmasia » Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:41 AM UTC

jedwhite wrote: post #16

I'm a fan of HN-style information minimalism. How are you parsing the sources and ranking the display, out of interest? Are you using NewsAPI or grabbing RSS feeds directly or something like that? Good luck. It looks good. [Edit just saw it's stocknewsapi]

Hey @jedwhite! Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! Yeah I'm pretty much relaying from https://stocknewsapi.com :)

I've been using them for about 2 years and they have an awesome team and service.