Gloomberb: The Open-Source Finance Terminal That Runs in Your Terminal
Gloomberb is a fast, keyboard-driven, open-source finance terminal available as a desktop app or TUI. It offers a command-bar-first interface with functions like DES for security details, QQ for quotes, and TOP for ranked stories. Users can research companies, follow markets, and manage portfolios with features like alerts, notes, and AI screens. Install with a simple curl command.
Gloomberb is command-bar first. Type a ticker or a shortcut like `DES AAPL` or `TOP` and jump straight into the market view.
- slowin
I really wish people would mention their stack when they have these curl install scripts. I'd rather use a real package manager, but I'm not totally against installing a compiled binary this way. I am, 100%, not going to install some Java/Type-script nightmare like this though. How is it resolving the dependencies? Is it installing some version of node, bun... on my machine? How's that working with other versions I have installed?
Related: please don't write command line tools in non-compiled languages! Don't make the runtime your user's problem.
- mortenjorck
As someone whose trading is mostly based on vibes via Reuters, X, and the Apple Stocks app, this is a fun dip in the deep end. The tiling UI is quite sensible once you get the hang of it.
The one thing I can't figure out is how to set a pane to change its ticker symbol based on the selected one in another pane. The default research panes do this, but I can't figure out how to set a new one to do it.
- rdiddly
Useful on its own merits.
Everybody who's distracted by the name and can't get past it, there's a thread developing here somewhere, where they're comparing it to Bloomberg.
- u8
Yeah... people aren't paying Bloomberg $31,980 per year for a TUI. They're paying for the data source... and I don't think you have Bloomberg's connections.
- dewey
There's many competitors these days, one that Shkreli always seems to use in his streams is https://godelterminal.com (Not open source though).
- MP_1729
Next week, it's my turn to create an UI for financial modeling prep API
- methodical
Bloomberg's moat is the messaging service within it, not it's aggregation of data
- thm
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