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Fey
Design-first financial research platform featuring real-time data and fast UX.
Fey was an investment research and financial analytics platform known for exceptional UI polish, rapid rendering speed, and deep market data. Built by a tiny team, it provided real-time pricing, financials, filings, and index breakdowns before being acquired by Wealthsimple.
What it's for
- Track real-time market movements, sector performance, and global indexes
- Research individual equities with automated financials, peer comparisons, and earnings summaries
- Screen stocks and monitor insider transactions in a unified desktop workspace
- Study high-performance financial interface patterns and rendering techniques
Features
- High-speed ticker search and instant canvas page rendering
- Global market overviews covering the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific
- Company fundamentals, peer comparisons, and analyst estimates
- Real-time news feeds with automated movement summaries ('Why it's moving')
- Stock screener and historical earnings tracking
- Integrated command palette navigation and built-in feedback overlay
Pricing
Sign-ups closed following acquisition by Wealthsimple
Details
- Type
- Website
- Category
- Business & Money
- Topic
- Investment Research
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web, macOS, Windows
- For
- Individual investors, finance professionals, and UI/UX designers studying financial apps.
- Alternative to
- Bloomberg Terminal, Koyfin, TradingView, Finviz
- Tags
- stocks, finance, investing, market data, dashboard, ui design
Why it was saved
- @Knipfer: Shows a UX pattern where search-to-page navigation feels instant even across seven tickers plus global markets; useful both as a design benchmark for speed and as a tool to try.
- @Knipfer: Engineering context that pairs with the demo; a case study in fixing perceived performance by simplification rather than micro-optimizations.
- @brotzky: Real product shown in the demo; the author is its co-founder, so it's a genuine tool to try
- @tcosta: The product shown in the design — a browsing/trading tool with a polished interface
- @tcosta: Cited by the author as a benchmark for a design-first product built by a team of just two engineers and one designer, covering the site, app, server, jobs, desktop and everything else.
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