Replace StocksBrew?

KINDA · weekend project

catalog price reference $9/mocategory 💰 personal financereported replacement votes 0

A personal stock-research cockpit is very buildable, but StocksBrew's useful current calls depend on continuously maintained market, filings, news, and alert pipelines. A DIY version can make its evidence and rules explicit; it will not inherit the service's coverage, refresh reliability, or editorial judgment.

the prompt

Build me a personal US-stock research cockpit to replace StocksBrew. Requirements:

- Node 22 + Express + better-sqlite3 + node-cron, server-rendered pages on
  localhost:8090, no frontend framework.
- watchlist.json holds my tickers; npm run refresh and a daily 7am cron pull
  end-of-day prices from Alpha Vantage (key in .env), filings from SEC EDGAR
  (no key needed), and items from a curated RSS list in sources.json.
- Score each stock with transparent rules in one rules.js file (price vs 50/200-day
  average, new 10-K/10-Q/8-K filings, earnings-date proximity) and show an
  add/hold/trim stance with the exact rule hits that produced it.
- Every summary line cites the filing or article URL and its timestamp; nothing
  uncited, nothing invented.
- Alerts: per-ticker price threshold and earnings-date reminder, sent by email over
  SMTP creds in .env.
- Rate-limit and cache all external calls (Alpha Vantage's free tier is 25
  requests/day, plan the refresh around it), dedupe news items, and mark stale
  data visibly.
- Dashboard: one watchlist table with price, stance, last-filing link, and next
  earnings date; one detail page per ticker with score history.
- SQLite tables: tickers, price_snapshots, filings, news_items, scores, alerts.
  One file I can back up by copying it.
- No accounts, no telemetry, everything local except the documented API calls.
- Out of scope: intraday data, brokerage connections, trading, and editorial stock
  calls. Put a clear not-investment-advice notice in the README along with setup,
  API limits, and the cron line.

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why people still pay

They pay for a maintained, current opinionated workflow: a stock call, the evidence behind it, a watchlist, and alerts that arrive without running or debugging a personal data pipeline.

what you lose

xmaintained stock coverage and editorial calls

xintraday data quality and provider reliability

xmanaged earnings and price alert delivery

xthe product's target-price methodology

xAI-agent API access

prior art to inspect before buildingOpenBB PlatformOpen-source financial research platform with market-data integrations.↗

reported replacements · 0share on X ↗"StocksBrew replacement research and build prompt"

questions

What does the StocksBrew verdict mean?

The core job looks buildable, with meaningful gaps: maintained stock coverage and editorial calls, intraday data quality and provider reliability. Read the full tradeoff list before committing. This research record is not a hosted IVCIFY tool.

What price does this directory record show for StocksBrew?

The directory records $9/month for Pro, checked 2026-08-02. Verify the source before making a purchase decision. This reference stays outside retail Stack Math unless current matched evidence supports the comparison.

What do I lose by replacing StocksBrew?

Honestly: maintained stock coverage and editorial calls; intraday data quality and provider reliability; managed earnings and price alert delivery; the product's target-price methodology; AI-agent API access. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to StocksBrew?

The listed prior art includes OpenBB Platform (Open-source financial research platform with market-data integrations.). Inspect those projects before starting from a blank prompt.