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ai09OP

Thanks, Joshua. I appreciate the feedback.

I'm going to build the features you suggested very soon. Another HNer suggested something like: http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener and I will enable that type of view to filter by industry, date, and size.

Regarding historical data, digital filings only exist after March 2009. Before that the SEC used a paper form that the SEC would scan and put online. The scanned PDFs would need to be injested via OCR and humans. Thomson Reuters already does this and I'm sure it's expensive.

When I have the beta of your suggestions up, I'll try contacting you via Twitter since I don't know how to contact you otherwise. If you'd prefer to email me your contact info, I can be reached at robert@#{website_from_this_post}.com

Thanks,

Robert

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