Should you build your own StocksBrew?
Current US-stock calls, targets, watchlists, and price or earnings alerts
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.
ENOriginal research content in English. Original prompt preserved in English.
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.The prompt opens pre-filled in your agent. Review it before running.
What would building your own look like?
Fetch end-of-day prices, SEC filings, and selected RSS news for a watchlist, score each stock with transparent rules, and notify the owner when a price or earnings condition changes.
What you will need
- market-data API key
- SEC EDGAR data
- RSS news sources
- LLM API key
- scheduled job
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.
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
How much does StocksBrew cost?
- Monthly billing
- $9/mo$9/mo
- Per year
- $108/yr$108/yr
- Annual billing
- $99/yr8% cheaper than paying monthly
- On a Brazilian card, with 3.5% IOF
- R$47.03/moR$517/yr
Saved to My list. You will see a notice on this site when the price changes.
You complete the purchase on StocksBrew’s site. Vibe Radar does not handle payments.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0 | $0 | Up to 3 Watchlist stocks; research preview; stock search; no card |
| pro | $9≈ $9 | $8.25≈ $8.25 | Unlimited Watchlist; full calls/zones/drivers/risks; targets; alerts; MCP and REST agent access |
Free tierUp to 3 Watchlist stocks; stock search and research preview; no card
Billing termsmonthly + annual ($99/year, save 8%); 3-day trial
verified 2026-08-13 · source ↗
Is it cheaper to build or buy StocksBrew?
Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.
Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.
Starting hours estimated from the analysis (multi-day). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).
Can I rebuild StocksBrew?
Kinda. The core of StocksBrew is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: maintained stock coverage and editorial calls, intraday data quality and provider reliability. Read the honest list above before committing.
How much does StocksBrew cost?
StocksBrew costs about $9/mo (Pro, checked 10/20/2026), which is $99 per year.
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?
Yes: OpenBB Platform (Open-source financial research platform with market-data integrations.). Using prior art is also vibecoding; the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.