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by barishnamazov 146 days ago
Calling a Polymarket dashboard a "Bloomberg Terminal" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The value of a Bloomberg Terminal isn't the UI (which is famously terrible/efficient); it's the latency, the hardware, the proprietary data feeds, the chat network, and the reliability.

Building a React frontend that fetches some JSON from an API in 2 hours is impressive, sure, but it’s not the hard part of fintech. We need to stop conflating "I built a UI that looks like X" with "I rebuilt the business value of X."

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This.

Calling polymarket bot “bloomberg terminal” is like calling boiling kettle a rocket engine.

That bot can be written in a few hours without ai.