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finfun234on Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS

A platform to get generate investment ideas by tracking insiders & Search for company filings instantly. Agent friendly with mcp & api available.

finfun234on Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

lmstudio with local models

finfun234on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

https://shareseer.com - Generate investment ideas by tracking insider transactions. It's a labor of love.

finfun234on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

I just built out a MCP for ShareSEER https://shareseer.com/claude to enable the data that I have about US public company filings, financials & insider transaction right within Claude

finfun234on Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

started out as scratching my own itch of finding sec filings & went down a rabbithole, https://shareseer.com/ Its my platform to build and experiment. I have a couple of hundred users

finfun234on AI powered newsletter that highlights interesting insider transactions

AI curated insider transactions to generate investing ideas

finfun234on Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

shareseer.com to find public company filings efficiently

finfun234on SolarWinds’ shares drop 22 per cent. But what’s this? $286M in stock sales

Shareseer captured these transactions in real time https://shareseer.com/insiders?q=SOLARWINDS+CORP

finfun234on Generate Investment Ideas by following public market trends

Track what institutional investors are holding and generate ideas from them

e.g https://shareseer.com/search?q=BERKSHIRE+HATHAWAY+INC+13F

Perform due diligence before purchasing any stock e.g https://shareseer.com/search?q=gs

Track all institutions by aum https://shareseer.com/aum

Follow insider transactions to generate ideas

https://shareseer.com/weekly/insiders/largest

I encourage you to create an account to get full access to the site at https://shareseer.com/signup

finfun234on Generate Ideas for Investing

Follow institutional investors & company insiders to generate investment ideas and perform due diligence before purchasing a stock. in addition the fastest way to search for filings & financials. Sign up Free! I'd love your feedback on the tool.

finfun234on S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US

I have built a site which allows you to see whether individual companies are buying back stock or diluting e.g. buying back https://shareseer.com/search?q=hd

diluting https://shareseer.com/search?q=t

finfun234on MBA vs. Bloomberg Terminal Subscription

MBA at a top school hands down. The network you build with stay with you forever. One of my regrets is not getting one and now is too late.

finfun234on Ask HN: How do you come up with side projects?

Follow your curiosity. What is a problem that bothers you? That would be be the best to start a project with.

finfun234on Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?

follow your curiosity.

finfun234on Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

i agree, its way easier to purchase a domain and launch a site!

finfun234on A year of building shareseer

Here is a clickable link https://shareseer.com/blog/a_year_of_shareseer.html

finfun234on Ask HN: What is your 2019 book reading list?

I just about finished reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Strongly recommend it, to ponder over the human condition.

finfun234on Ask HN: What is your 2019 book reading list?

finfun234on The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard

Hi Dave, Kudos for sharing what you experienced. I actually completed a year working on https://shareseer.com on thanksgiving day. It is a side project. I have found shipping whenever a small milestone is hit to work for me. Another trick i use is to keep a backlog of items that need to be done, which brings me back to work on it. Thirdly I really care about the problem. Fourth an d finally I realized distribution is a vastly harder problem than product. Getting people to use what you build is the core of whether the product succeeds or not.

finfun234on Ask HN: What are you currently working on in your spare time?

I'm building https://www.shareseer.com to make access to financial data easy.

Most recently I added a feature that allows download of financial statements for most US listed companies.

finfun234on Ask HN: How do you keep energy to work on personal projects after work hours?

Wake up early and work on your personal project for an hour. Repeat for a month, then a year.

finfun234on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

I have been working on a project called Shareseer. Shareseer was born out of my pain of finding company filings as I was learning about valuation of companies.

Another frustration of mine was reading boilerplate text when I read the company risk section. So I applied some machine learning & Natural language processing to extract the unique risks. The way to access it is to visit https://shareseer.com then search for a company name or ticker. You will find the 10-k/10-q filings along with risks marked as important by our algorithms. Alternatively you can make a query to https://shareseer.com/search?q=NFLX and replace tick with your desired tick. Analyzed Risks are available for the S & P 500. Filings are available for all companies. The other features available are a real time insider transaction feed and a company filings feed:

http://shareseer.com/today/insiders

http://shareseer.com/today/filings

It would be great if you could give the application a spin. I'm trying to learn:

a) Is this useful to you as an investor?

b) What are your pain points today in your research process?

c) Any other feedback you may have?

I think it’s cool because it allows any investor to improve their due diligence when buying an individual stock. It reduces the gap between what the people on Wall Street know and what the average joe investor knows. The insiders filings are an entire day faster than what major brokerages offer today. The risk analysis is unique too.

finfun234on The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (1984)

There is a case to say that research and valuation is better than following a trend. I’m working on a project to make the research project friction less. I would love feedback on it. A frustration of mine was reading boilerplate text when I read the company risk section. So I applied some machine learning & Natural language processing to extract the unique risks. The way to access it is to visit https://shareseer.com then search for a company name or ticker. You will get the 10k/10 q along with important risks. The other features available are a real time insider transaction feed and a company filings feed:

http://shareseer.com/today/insiders

http://shareseer.com/today/filings I’m trying to learn what are your pain points with your investment research process ? Is this useful? And feature requests?

finfun234on Show HN: Finding insider stock transactions in real time.

we also added company descriptions for all S & P 500. e.g http://shareseer.com/search?q=AFL

finfun234on Show HN: Finding insider stock transactions in real time.

Good point. We will consider adding such a feature. Thanks for checking it out!

finfun234on Show HN: Finding insider stock transactions in real time.

thanks!

>>> As a retail investor / layman, can you explain the benefits or workflow? (legalities, how to go about this, use cases)<<<<

All company insiders(e.g CEO,Directors etc) are required to report to the Government, stock transactions they make in their company. Many brokerages will give you this information on a per company basis. What we have seen is there is a delay between one to three days. So the benefit is you get the information as it is reported. What you do with this information is up to you. But being aware of large transactions by insiders could be a useful metric as part of your research. For example here are transaction's that we came across on our insider page last night http://shareseer.com/today/insiders?f=walmart There was ~120M of stock that was disposed of.

>>>What happens if this gets really popular -- will there be a gate/fee?<<< We have some ideas on building specific insights on top of this, that we could consider as a paid feature. For now everything is free as we are learning about the pain points of investors. Our focus today is to learn from you what your pain points are as an individual investor and what you think about the application today?

finfun234on Show HN: Finding insider stock transactions in real time.

We have some ideas on building specific insights on top of this, that we could consider as a paid feature. For now everything is free as we are learning about the pain points of investors.

finfun234on Show HN: Finding insider stock transactions in real time.

we haven't thought about quantifying risk in the manner you suggested but we definitely want to identify all kinds of risks that may not be obvious.

finfun234on Show HN: Finding insider stock transactions in real time.

Hi Hyencomper, How this is different from finviz is that this is real time with all transactions. Finviz has a delay and generally is for few largest transactions.

finfun234on Ask HN: Whats the best way for a Software Engineer to learn finance?

Learn valuation http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/equity.ht...