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This is a very interesting project, but you need to stop likening it to a Bloomberg terminal. By doing so, it comes off as a letdown by doing so little, rather

This is a very interesting project, but you need to stop likening it to a Bloomberg terminal. By doing so, it comes off as a letdown by doing so little, rather than being impressive for doing so much with open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260019 I looked through the features to see if my impression was wrong now, but seeing a new feature called Government that didn’t even acknowledge Treasuries has confirmed the weakness of this comparison.

random3455699 5y ago
https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/main/gamestonk_terminal/economy https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...
- 1996 5y ago
  Exactly: features will be coming. It just takes time for free software to match commercial offering at first, but eventually it surpasses them (too many example to list) for 90% of the uses. If it let me cancel my Bloomberg subscription, why not? All I want is reddit + twitter firehose sentiment mining, accurate plot of basic (EURUSD, wood futures) and not so basic (VIX) things. I do not need to keep track of cargo ships on a map.
  - adeelk93 5y ago
    That sounds like great free software. But again, to quote from that thread a few months ago: The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal. That above Gamestonk Economy page showing how you can pull `dgs5` from FRED, is basically unrelated to the `GOVT` functionality on Bloomberg. You have to understand, quoting an index is a whole other league from pricing information on individual bonds; anyone can do the former, but Bloomberg does the latter.
sexy_year 5y ago
I agree with you. The reason why we still link it to Bloomberg is because of the vision we have, not the current state of the project. Kind of similar to a self-driving startup mentioning that they will become a Tesla - It's not true, but you get the idea and concept. I made the repo open-source first at the end of February, given that we are only 3 devs (2 adding features and 1 dev ops) all with full-time jobs, there's only so much we can get our hands on. I don't have access to Bloomberg Terminal. But I'm pretty confident that there are features that we've got that Bloomberg doesn't. E.g. we have a screener for stocks that can be specified by our user base and made available by everyone (https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/main/gamestonk_terminal/screener/presets https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...). This is what having an open-source project can bring, combining collective knowledge of the community.

random3455699 5y ago

https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/main/gamestonk_terminal/economy https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...

1996 5y ago
Exactly: features will be coming. It just takes time for free software to match commercial offering at first, but eventually it surpasses them (too many example to list) for 90% of the uses. If it let me cancel my Bloomberg subscription, why not? All I want is reddit + twitter firehose sentiment mining, accurate plot of basic (EURUSD, wood futures) and not so basic (VIX) things. I do not need to keep track of cargo ships on a map.
- adeelk93 5y ago
  That sounds like great free software. But again, to quote from that thread a few months ago: The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal. That above Gamestonk Economy page showing how you can pull `dgs5` from FRED, is basically unrelated to the `GOVT` functionality on Bloomberg. You have to understand, quoting an index is a whole other league from pricing information on individual bonds; anyone can do the former, but Bloomberg does the latter.

sexy_year 5y ago

I agree with you. The reason why we still link it to Bloomberg is because of the vision we have, not the current state of the project. Kind of similar to a self-driving startup mentioning that they will become a Tesla - It's not true, but you get the idea and concept. I made the repo open-source first at the end of February, given that we are only 3 devs (2 adding features and 1 dev ops) all with full-time jobs, there's only so much we can get our hands on. I don't have access to Bloomberg Terminal. But I'm pretty confident that there are features that we've got that Bloomberg doesn't. E.g. we have a screener for stocks that can be specified by our user base and made available by everyone (https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/main/gamestonk_terminal/screener/presets https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...). This is what having an open-source project can bring, combining collective knowledge of the community.