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by drglitch 4359 days ago
Pretty interesting effort, but a bit of constructive criticism:

- none of your query results have a date attached! While pretty, an earnings number without a date is like a chart without an axis.

- Just how natural can the queries be? "$AAPL sales estimates" did not return anything. Neither did "$CAT cost of capital". "quarterly $CAT earnings growth" gave me a single EBIDTA number", e.g. not what asked. Is it easier to start with simple dropdowns?

- Why the stocktwits $ prefix? Why cant a company name be used?

- Another "sad face" feature - every not found/no results query takes away a "free query" :(

On more positive note, things look really clean - good job on the design! A great start. Is the long-term idea here to build an accessible place for fundamental data research?

What value added are you providing in your premium product (aside from heatmap) over just going over to EDGAR archive?

Ping me directly - would love to provide more feedback!

Edit: fix formatting :)

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Would love your email for feedback :) Or just shoot me an email at chintan@pennywhale.com. Thanks!
Will shoot you an email! One more thing: you seem to be hotlinking to images on nasdaq, e.g. apple pe ratio shows http://www.nasdaq.com//charts/aapl_per.jpeg - what determines is a datapoint is presented as a hotlink/image vs a number (like apple's price to book?).

Aside from as-of date on each datapoint, ideally you should provide attribution as well (anyone who worked in finance knows that all data sources provide different data for same query at any given time :)