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Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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It’s nice, I like it. PS if the next question is whether I’d pay for it, the answer is likely no ;) A suggestion: I forget the HTML tag off the top of my head, but there is something you can do that turns off the keyboard autocorrect. Setting the search box input type to something specific or something like that… stock tickers aren’t dictionary words :)

Thank you! I love this about HN (well, I've been a lurker mostly for 18 years) that people point to things you haven't even thought of.

Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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Any pointers on creating similar tools? I had an idea for an AI-backed analyses tool (not for stocks) but not quite sure how to go about it. Even if it's just a pointer to some page that does an ELI5 I'd really appreciate it.

Depending on how much time you have, the first thing I would recommend is to watch Karpathy's 'deep dive into LLMs' video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI ). It is 3.5 hours but it will give you so much instinctive understanding of how these things work and will likely save you a lot of time. Purely from a technical standpoint, things aren't that difficult really. I'd recommend get yourself an API accoun…

Will check it out. Thanks so much!

I'm pretty familiar with how LLM's work, it was more of "how do I create sites/apps" with LLM/AI backends. Will check out the youtube. Thanks again.

Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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This is cool. If you don’t mind me asking, are you using the EDGAR api or something else?

Thanks! No we (had some help) built the full pipeline from the ground up using EDGAR archives. Cleaning up SEC data was a nightmare but we eventually got there

Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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This is cool. If you don’t mind me asking, are you using the EDGAR api or something else?

Thanks! No we (had some help) built the full pipeline from the ground up using EDGAR archives. Cleaning up SEC data was a nightmare but we eventually got there

Fascinating. It seemed like the EDGAR API looked too good to be true. Sounds like it was.

Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! No we (had some help) built the full pipeline from the ground up using EDGAR archives. Cleaning up SEC data was a nightmare but we eventually got there

Fascinating. It seemed like the EDGAR API looked too good to be true. Sounds like it was.

From what I gather, there is an "official" EDGAR API that is not operated by SEC but by a company they authorized, costs tens of thousands per year and by some accounts, is not that great.

Then you have a bunch of third party providers that offer APIs that return cleaned up SEC filings and charge like few thousand dollars a year. The downside is the latency they add.

Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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Seriously fantastic tool, I'm going to use the hell out of this, I appreciate you creating this so much! Let me know if there's a way to donate.

Much appreciated. The only donation I can think of is if you help spread the word. I learned a tough lesson this week that it is extraordinarily hard to market a product lol

P.S. If it wasn't for @dang putting it in the second-chance-pool, this post would have never been seen by more than 2 people.

Re: Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports

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I was thinking of building exactly this type of thing here. This is great and I love the simple/minimalistic styled pages. Things I was also contemplating to implement you can freely steal: 1. Giving a list of potential interesting investments - these could also be behind paywall. 2. Summarize based on sectors to see where there's downturns coming - again maybe paywall this 3. Connect with news-sites or twitter etc..…

Really nice of you to encourage, thank you! I've thought about some of those. The first one is an interesting idea, but offering any real financial advice is regulated, which is a tread carefully territory Second one is achievable and a good one at that. In fact, there is a lot of canonical data out there that when used carefully can provide a very nuanced picture of the current state of economy. Third one, currently…

I'd suggest moving to either bluesky or rss. In fact, selling rss access (very fast responses) and delaying the public (twitter/Bluesky) releases by a few hours/days may be a way to monetize successfully.
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