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Show HN: StreetEYE, all the top financial market news in one click

24 points by RockyMcNuts 13y ago

Some people have called StreetEYE 'HN for investors', but it's a little different. You can go to Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, FT and hit a page with the most-read stories, but now everyone shares everything on social networks and blogs, so we can try to make one page with the most popular news across all sites and blogs - find the top people who share news, and combine algorithmic, professional, and crowdsourced curation to make the best front page across financial media. StreetEYE is more like a mashup of HN, Techmeme, Google News, Flipboard, Buzzfeed. For now, no comments or submissions to avoid spam, but will add them. A longer manifesto here - http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifesto/ Been around for a couple of years in various iterations, has a bit of traction among financial journos/twitterati. Never submitted before because the typical HN reader is not the target, but just did a relaunch and there was a lot of interest in this thread where it was mentioned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565 Other sites in similar space http://boredbanker.com http://filll.com http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive http://www.usv.com for VC (of course) http://www.trejdify.com for broader business news Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, any issues let me know! Be gentle, still MVP/POC. Platform is Django on back end, Bootstrap + crude jQuery on front end. It's not an x86 emulator/Riemann hypothesis solver in Javascript/Haskell but it's been a fun project and I hope people find it useful. If it has product/market fit, would look to build a team, do a startup accelerator.

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
Creator / submitter here - Some people have called StreetEYE 'HN for investors', but it's a little different. You can go to Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, FT and hit a page with the most-read stories, but now everyone shares everything on social networks and blogs, so we can try to make one page with the most popular news across all sites and blogs - find the top people who share news, and combine algorithmic, professional, and crowdsourced curation to make the best front page across financial media. StreetEYE is more like a mashup of HN, Techmeme, Google News, Flipboard, Buzzfeed. Basically the goal is to make the best flippin' front page of the financial Intertubes, by all means necessary. For now, no comments or submissions to avoid spam, but plan to add them. A longer manifesto here - http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifesto/ http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifes... Been around for a couple of years in various iterations, has a bit of traction among financial journos/twitterati. Never submitted before because the typical HN reader is not the target, but did an October relaunch, and there was a lot of interest in this thread where it was mentioned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565 Other sites in similar space http://boredbanker.com http://boredbanker.com http://filll.com http://filll.com http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive http://www.usv.com http://www.usv.com for VC (of course) http://www.trejdify.com http://www.trejdify.com for broader business news Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, any issues let me know! Please be gentle, still MVP/POC! Platform is Django on back end, Bootstrap + crude jQuery on front end. It's not an x86 emulator/Riemann hypothesis solution in Javascript/Haskell but it's been a fun project and I hope people find it useful. If it has product/market fit, would look to build a team, do a startup accelerator. druce (at) streeteye.com
- elemeno 13y ago
  Druce, Congratulations on the re-launch, the site looks good and definitely one I'll be keeping an eye on, especially since I likely fall into being part of the target market being in the Capital Markets space. My one main bit of feedback would be that you might want to broaden your sources to include more in-depth financial sources - right now it feels more like "business news" than it does "finance/financial markets news". To pick an example, I'd be more interested in stories like "Former HSBC Banker to Start Hedge Fund Investing Globally" than I am "Secret Handshakes Greet Frat Brothers on Wall Street" to pick two stories on Bloomberg at the moment. I want to hear the stories about what various hedge funds are up to, what's going on at Goldman's Structured Products desk, etc. My two eurocents anyway!
  - RockyMcNuts 13y ago
    awesome, many thanks! There is a natural tendency for sort of adverse selection towards virality...
infocollector 13y ago
Is there a REST API for this (perhaps with keywords, images, etc all available thru it)?
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  There is a basic REST API, basically the tastypie Django plugin. If you (or anyone) wants to try to do something cool with it, would be happy to explore it!
waylandsmithers 13y ago
I like this and would probably use it. I find that a lot of these sites like Bloomberg or Yahoo Finance are a mess of linkbait, intrusive ads, and auto-playing videos. Could you include market stats like Dow Jones, NASDAQ, etc? I'd be looking for that if this were my one stop shop for financial news.
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  Many thanks, will keep in mind... certainly the latest indexes are not too hard.
frenchman_in_ny 13y ago
congrats on the relaunch Druce. i'll echo the comment of having market trading data would be an interesting add.
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  Many thanks, will keep in mind... also thanks for the mention in that last thread! Druce - (12 years of LFNY and the bac to prove it LOL)
master212 13y ago
Looking good. Love the new design. Gennady
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  Thanks Gennady!
minimax 13y ago
3 of the 7 links above the fold are about bitcoin...
wlj 13y ago
I would consider changing the look of the up-vote buttons. They're obviously not, but my first thought was that they were somehow related to Facebook.
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  hmmh... you may have a point, thanks!
- code_duck 13y ago
  Those stood out to me as the first design element I'd change, too.
code_duck 13y ago
From a visual/usability perspective, I'd focus on getting a mobile layout.
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  Thanks code_duck - is anything horribly broken and which device? It's Bootstrap 3.0 but which in theory is 'mobile-first' but haven't done the work to make sure it's responsive and works on all devices. There is an iPad app in the app store for what it's worth but it's an early beta... welcome any comments/suggestions.
  - code_duck 13y ago
    It displays without error, as far as I can see, but is just like the desktop site. One can zoom in on the center column of stories, but it was a little clunky on mobile Safari. And then, you can't see the vote icons or thumbnails without horizontal scrolling. Bootstrap will make it easy to adapt to smaller screen, but one still must choose the appropriate classes for elements and build the layout knowing how bootstrap handles that ( something I've been learning recently). I'd suggest adding breakpoints to handle iphone/small android at least - current layout is probably okay for tablets. Mainly the twitter box needs to disappear and I'd suggest making the voting/icons section and titles switch to being more compact or above each other rather than online,
    - code_duck 13y ago
      'inline.', that is, not 'online,'.

24 points by RockyMcNuts 13y ago

RockyMcNuts 13y ago

Creator / submitter here - Some people have called StreetEYE 'HN for investors', but it's a little different. You can go to Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, FT and hit a page with the most-read stories, but now everyone shares everything on social networks and blogs, so we can try to make one page with the most popular news across all sites and blogs - find the top people who share news, and combine algorithmic, professional, and crowdsourced curation to make the best front page across financial media. StreetEYE is more like a mashup of HN, Techmeme, Google News, Flipboard, Buzzfeed. Basically the goal is to make the best flippin' front page of the financial Intertubes, by all means necessary. For now, no comments or submissions to avoid spam, but plan to add them. A longer manifesto here - http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifesto/ http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifes... Been around for a couple of years in various iterations, has a bit of traction among financial journos/twitterati. Never submitted before because the typical HN reader is not the target, but did an October relaunch, and there was a lot of interest in this thread where it was mentioned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565 Other sites in similar space http://boredbanker.com http://boredbanker.com http://filll.com http://filll.com http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive http://www.usv.com http://www.usv.com for VC (of course) http://www.trejdify.com http://www.trejdify.com for broader business news Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, any issues let me know! Please be gentle, still MVP/POC! Platform is Django on back end, Bootstrap + crude jQuery on front end. It's not an x86 emulator/Riemann hypothesis solution in Javascript/Haskell but it's been a fun project and I hope people find it useful. If it has product/market fit, would look to build a team, do a startup accelerator. druce (at) streeteye.com

elemeno 13y ago
Druce, Congratulations on the re-launch, the site looks good and definitely one I'll be keeping an eye on, especially since I likely fall into being part of the target market being in the Capital Markets space. My one main bit of feedback would be that you might want to broaden your sources to include more in-depth financial sources - right now it feels more like "business news" than it does "finance/financial markets news". To pick an example, I'd be more interested in stories like "Former HSBC Banker to Start Hedge Fund Investing Globally" than I am "Secret Handshakes Greet Frat Brothers on Wall Street" to pick two stories on Bloomberg at the moment. I want to hear the stories about what various hedge funds are up to, what's going on at Goldman's Structured Products desk, etc. My two eurocents anyway!
- RockyMcNuts 13y ago
  awesome, many thanks! There is a natural tendency for sort of adverse selection towards virality...

infocollector 13y ago

Is there a REST API for this (perhaps with keywords, images, etc all available thru it)?

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
There is a basic REST API, basically the tastypie Django plugin. If you (or anyone) wants to try to do something cool with it, would be happy to explore it!

waylandsmithers 13y ago

I like this and would probably use it. I find that a lot of these sites like Bloomberg or Yahoo Finance are a mess of linkbait, intrusive ads, and auto-playing videos. Could you include market stats like Dow Jones, NASDAQ, etc? I'd be looking for that if this were my one stop shop for financial news.

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
Many thanks, will keep in mind... certainly the latest indexes are not too hard.

frenchman_in_ny 13y ago

congrats on the relaunch Druce. i'll echo the comment of having market trading data would be an interesting add.

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
Many thanks, will keep in mind... also thanks for the mention in that last thread! Druce - (12 years of LFNY and the bac to prove it LOL)

master212 13y ago

Looking good. Love the new design. Gennady

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
Thanks Gennady!

minimax 13y ago

3 of the 7 links above the fold are about bitcoin...

wlj 13y ago

I would consider changing the look of the up-vote buttons. They're obviously not, but my first thought was that they were somehow related to Facebook.

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
hmmh... you may have a point, thanks!
code_duck 13y ago
Those stood out to me as the first design element I'd change, too.

code_duck 13y ago

From a visual/usability perspective, I'd focus on getting a mobile layout.

RockyMcNuts 13y ago
Thanks code_duck - is anything horribly broken and which device? It's Bootstrap 3.0 but which in theory is 'mobile-first' but haven't done the work to make sure it's responsive and works on all devices. There is an iPad app in the app store for what it's worth but it's an early beta... welcome any comments/suggestions.
- code_duck 13y ago
  It displays without error, as far as I can see, but is just like the desktop site. One can zoom in on the center column of stories, but it was a little clunky on mobile Safari. And then, you can't see the vote icons or thumbnails without horizontal scrolling. Bootstrap will make it easy to adapt to smaller screen, but one still must choose the appropriate classes for elements and build the layout knowing how bootstrap handles that ( something I've been learning recently). I'd suggest adding breakpoints to handle iphone/small android at least - current layout is probably okay for tablets. Mainly the twitter box needs to disappear and I'd suggest making the voting/icons section and titles switch to being more compact or above each other rather than online,
  - code_duck 13y ago
    'inline.', that is, not 'online,'.