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

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Post by carlossouza »

Congrats on the project!

Here’s an idea to monetize it: implement collaborative filtering (example: funds in rows, assets in columns).

Once you do it, you will be able to cluster similar funds. Let’s say X funds have the asset A, but Y funds do not have it, and X and Y belong to the same cluster. Thus, if you recommend asset A to the Y funds, there’s a high probability they’d add it to their portfolio (if property pitched). This is roughly how Netflix recommends movies, Spotify recommends songs, etc.

A lot of players in the industry would pay high $$$ for a recommender system like that. And you already made 80%: it’s only missing the final machine learning part (which is the fun part :))

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

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carlossouza wrote: post #41

Congrats on the project! Here’s an idea to monetize it: implement collaborative filtering (example: funds in rows, assets in columns). Once you do it, you will be able to cluster similar funds. Let’s say X funds have the asset A, but Y funds do not have it, and X and Y belong to the same cluster. Thus, if you recommend asset A to the Y funds, there’s a high probability they’d add it to their portfolio (if property pi…

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

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carlossouza wrote: post #41

Congrats on the project! Here’s an idea to monetize it: implement collaborative filtering (example: funds in rows, assets in columns). Once you do it, you will be able to cluster similar funds. Let’s say X funds have the asset A, but Y funds do not have it, and X and Y belong to the same cluster. Thus, if you recommend asset A to the Y funds, there’s a high probability they’d add it to their portfolio (if property pi…

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

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Post by anonyonoor »

carlossouza wrote: post #41

Congrats on the project! Here’s an idea to monetize it: implement collaborative filtering (example: funds in rows, assets in columns). Once you do it, you will be able to cluster similar funds. Let’s say X funds have the asset A, but Y funds do not have it, and X and Y belong to the same cluster. Thus, if you recommend asset A to the Y funds, there’s a high probability they’d add it to their portfolio (if property pi…

This is a great idea, especially since I am already learning machine learning with Python right now. I will try this, thanks.

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

#45

Post by password4321 »

anonyonoor wrote: post #35
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #21

504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT If the data changes irregularly, you’re probably better off making it a static site and having a script update it periodically, also to avoid excessive cloud charges (since you seem to be hosting this on Vercel).

Vercel hosts the front-end, but the back-end is whats down right now. I thought I could rely on my Always Free Oracle cloud instance but I guess not. The problem with making a static site is that there are over 800,000 SEC filers, so it would be impossible to query all of them and store it. I hadn't expected so much traffic, so I really have no clue how to handle this without excessive cloud charges. The best I've do…

You can query a SQLite DB entirely client side over HTTP: https://github.com/proofrock/ws4sqlite

The pre-processed data would have to be served from somewhere though. I'm not sure if GitHub could be used to host.

If not, Scaleway Stardust includes a bit of disk, 75GB free S3-compatible storage, and most importantly: free 100mbps outbound data transfer for There are probably other cheap shared web hosts that claim unlimited data transfer but not sure they'll deliver.

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

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Post by doctoboggan »

throwup238 wrote: post #31
arrowleaf wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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. Gaia GPS [1] is the one I use. It's got a lot of layers for free including land ownership which properly shows all of my neighbors plots. I use it often when collecting rock specimens and mushrooms to make sure I'm o…

Thanks for the pointer, I just downloaded the app. What is the name of the layer showing property boundaries for free? I can see the “Private Land (US)” but it’s prompting me to sign up for premium when I click on it.

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

#47

Post by throwup238 »

doctoboggan wrote: post #46
throwup238 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Gaia GPS [1] is the one I use. It's got a lot of layers for free including land ownership which properly shows all of my neighbors plots. I use it often when collecting rock specimens and mushrooms to make sure I'm o…

Thanks for the pointer, I just downloaded the app. What is the name of the layer showing property boundaries for free? I can see the “Private Land (US)” but it’s prompting me to sign up for premium when I click on it.

Oooff that's my mistake. I might be grandfathered in on the premium layers and didn't realize.

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

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Post by simpletone »

> The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps record of every company in the United States.

No. SEC keeps tabs on publicly traded companies, large institutional investors and the like. Hence the 'securities' and 'exchange'. Most companies in the US are private and not publicly traded. And most companies are not asset managers.

> and valuable analysis is often hidden behind a paywall.

Sure, but that's because analysis is valuable.

> I made this project to better democratize SEC filings

The SEC already makes the information publicly available via their edgar system.

> In the comments, I'd appreciate any and all advice, as well as feedback on how to improve the site.

I'm not sure who your target audience is. Finance companies already have internal teams pulling this kind data for them or they buy it from finance data providers. As for the general public, what need do they have for top 'filers'? As for me, I'd rather dump the data into a database or excel and query it rather than looking at a static page.

At the very least, don't make the site static. Try to add a spreadsheet. Or at the very least a sorting option. Also, vanguard, blackrock, etc aren't top filers. They are the largest or top asset managers. Maybe tie news stories to each asset manager? And more data? But as I said, not sure what the value here is for the end user. Why would I or anyone else ever use your site? Or better yet, what do you use the site for?

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

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Post by doctoboggan »

throwup238 wrote: post #47
doctoboggan wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the pointer, I just downloaded the app. What is the name of the layer showing property boundaries for free? I can see the “Private Land (US)” but it’s prompting me to sign up for premium when I click on it.

Oooff that's my mistake. I might be grandfathered in on the premium layers and didn't realize.

Ah ok yeah I thought that was too good to be true. Currently using onX for this but am paying $30/year for the private land layer

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

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Post by financypants »

anonyonoor wrote: post #38
multicast wrote: post #36

Very interesting project, I like the overview. I also really like that you took the finance industry as a theme for your project. >> Every company in the United States Sorry for being so fussy but I highly recommended changing the word 'company' / not using it in the future, as the title is quite misleading. No private company in the US has to register with the SEC or has to file with the SEC. 'Investment advisors',…

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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