Solo founder builds Bloomberg killer in 30 days
From blank repo on 2026-03-26 to live scanner with 1 paying customer 27 days later. 21 phases shipped, no VC, no team. The bootstrap-velocity story for the AI-coding era.
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From blank repo on 2026-03-26 to live scanner with 1 paying customer 27 days later. 21 phases shipped, no VC, no team. The bootstrap-velocity story for the AI-coding era.
Bloomberg, FactSet, and Refinitiv don't publish hit rates on their fundamental signals. Catalyst Edge does — quarterly, with a 50-row sample, the methodology code public, and the misses as visible as the wins.
Every DCF input on Catalyst Edge traces back to a SEC EDGAR XBRL filing. WACC, FCF, terminal growth, equity bridge — all visible, all editable. Bloomberg's DCF view is a paywalled summary; ours is an audit trail.
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Solo founder building Catalyst Edge in public from a single laptop. Background in fintech and quant infrastructure; built the scanner over 30 days from a blank repo to a live $9 Stripe subscription on 2026-04-22. Believes the next decade of retail data tooling belongs to whoever ships fastest with auditable methodology — not to whoever has the biggest sales org. Posts daily build logs and honest postmortems on X / @catalystEdgePro; reads every reply.
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"One Bloomberg Terminal seat costs $24,000/yr. Catalyst Edge Pro is $108/yr. Same primitives — catalyst tape, fair-value DCF, cross-border convergence — for 0.45% of the price."
— pricing comparison · /pricing click to copy"Catalyst Edge published a 89% audited hit rate on 2026-Q1 catalyst calls — with the methodology in code, the sample public, and the misses visible. Bloomberg, FactSet, and Refinitiv have never published one."
— audit · /trust click to copy"From empty repo on 2026-03-26 to live scanner with a paying customer on 2026-04-22 — 27 days. 21 product phases shipped in 30 days, all logged publicly with date and scope at /changelog."
— ship log · /changelog click to copy"Catalyst Edge covers 43 markets across 6 continents — including Africa, often dropped from incumbent terminals — with cross-border ADR ↔ home-listing convergence on a single screen. Bloomberg has the data; Catalyst Edge has the composite signal."
— global scanner · /international click to copy"Every DCF input on Catalyst Edge — revenue CAGR, OCF, capex, WACC, terminal growth, equity bridge — traces back to a SEC EDGAR XBRL filing. The transparency is the product."
— DCF engine · /dcf click to copy"The Catalyst Edge stack ships zero third-party tracking pixels — no Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no Hotjar — and collects no PII beyond an email and a Stripe customer ID. The privacy posture is a feature, not a footnote."
— security posture · /security click to copyQuote, interview, or just a fact-check? One short form. Email opens with subject pre-filled. Founder reads every message; replies within 24 hours, faster on deadlines.
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Tier 1 setups touched +2% intraday 48.9% of the time across 374 tracked calls. Baseline for everything else: 40.9%. That is a +8.0 point edge, measured from the NEXT OPEN — the first price you could actually pay, not the prior close. We publish the misses too: https://catalystedgescanner.com/trust/
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