Real-Time Alerts On Congressional And Executive Stock Trades
A free, open-source tracker of every STOCK Act disclosure from Congress and the executive branch reached 63 points on Show HN with 57,000 trades from 430 filers, and the comments asked for the two things the free site lacks: real-time alerting on new filings and a transparent collection pipeline rather than static JSON dumps. Retail investors and journalists want to act on disclosures the moment they post. The wedge is a real-time alerting and API product over normalized disclosure data, where incumbents charge for the convenience layer the open dataset omits.
Problem Statement
A retail investor or reporter wants to know within minutes when a specific official files a trade, but the free tracker packages data as JSON files updated daily with no alerting and an opaque collection pipeline, so by the time they notice, the signal is stale. Building their own scraper of STOCK Act filings is tedious and fragile, which leaves the timely, queryable layer as the unmet need.
The Idea
A real-time alerting and API service over normalized congressional and executive-branch stock disclosures for investors and journalists who need to act on filings immediately.
Why Now
Public interest in political stock trading stayed high into 2026 and disclosure data is now open, but raw filings and static JSON are not actionable. The Show HN comments asking for real-time updates and a visible pipeline show the demand has moved from having the data to getting alerted and querying it the instant a trade posts.
Target User
Retail investors, financial journalists, and researchers tracking political and insider trading disclosures
Target Market
Political trading intelligence and disclosure data services
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