Alpaca Data API is your new go-to data API for building trading apps & algorithmic trading strategies and is free to use. It provides real-time stock price data with up to 99.95% price accuracy compared to well-known expensive consolidated market data feeds.
About Alpaca Data API on Product Hunt
“Free real-time stock market data API”
Alpaca Data API launched on Product Hunt on May 11th, 2020 and earned 299 upvotes and 53 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. Alpaca Data API is your new go-to data API for building trading apps & algorithmic trading strategies and is free to use. It provides real-time stock price data with up to 99.95% price accuracy compared to well-known expensive consolidated market data feeds.
On the analytics side, Alpaca Data API competes within Fintech, Developer Tools and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Alpaca Data API performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Alpaca Data API?
Alpaca Data API was hunted by Hiten Shah. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.