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Re: Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

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Post by gopher_space » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 4:54 PM UTC

arrowleaf wrote: post #19

cobertos wrote: post #4

Dang, I saw the name and hoped it was a map-based app that showed you ownership of things around you (further intriguing me because I don't believe such data exists at a local scale anyway). Great project though! Opening up these sort of semi-encumbered datasets is what keeps humans well informed I'm from MI as well and always wondered about deeper datasets for watching money and influence change hands

There are a lot of GIS / mapping software that shows property ownership and their boundaries, useful for hunting. onX, for example, and I think you can purchase 'ownership layers' on stuff like Avenza. I agree with what you're saying though, it would be cool to take something like those property owner layers and find the ultimate legal entity for stuff like LLCs owning land. E, only semi-related: In the 'urban design…

Most of the information these services draw from is publicly available, and the stuff that isn’t is of questionable accuracy.

Re: Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

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Post by anonyonoor » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

kyleleelarson wrote: post #58

I am working on a somewhat similar project, for searching items 1 and 1a in 10-k annual reports, that I am hoping to release in the near future. I would be interested to hear what lessons you end up learning about scaling up to handle the interest you got from HN.

Definitely limit the more disk heavy features, or spend more time (and money) on infastructure. I was running the whole site on an 8vCPU 24GB RAM VM, and it almost immediately crashed due to the high disk reads.

This is likely due to the fact that the database is huge, and providing that data on demand is very resource intensive- especially when there are forty different people sending many requests a second.

If you don't want to compromise on data though, look into spending a little bit more time/money on infrastructure. I wish I had deployed the project on Kubernetes, instead of what I ended up doing.

Re: Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

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Post by dang » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 9:00 PM UTC

financypants wrote: post #50

anonyonoor wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I geniunely did not know that there was a real difference between companies and asset managers. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for informing me, and for the kind words, I'll make sure to avoid using the word company from now on.

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Re: Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

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Post by amai » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 9:01 PM UTC

Strange, suddenly Vanguard Group doesn't show up anymore under top filers: https://www.wallstreetlocal.com/recommended/top But they should be the same amount of assets like Black Rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asset_management_firms

Why did they vanish from the list? Maybe a data bug?