About MarketStack
Not quite an FAQ, but a bit about our efforts...
Personal news.
Only read what matters to you.
News isn't one size fits all. News is personal. We want you to get the news which matters to you. MarketStack filters hundreds of information channels down to what is relevant to your interests.
And why should you have to look for what is important to you? It should just be where you want it. Where you expect it. Without clutter.(1)
We think you should "Expect more from your time" ™
Notes:
- Professionals in the global credit markets suffer acutely from information overload. Having experienced that frustration ourselves we have built MarketStack to reduce this information noise, improve efficiency and focus on the important things in business and in life.
Professionals who don't need more distractions.
Who needs more noise? We're interested in signal. There are loads of distractions. If you want distraction, the web abounds with it — just check out your local appstore. If you want to focus once in a while, we're trying to help.
Although we'd like to help all those looking to dial down the noise in their lives, we're starting with what we know — the credit markets.(1) We plan to build from there, but take our time to do it right. We're learning from our mistakes.
Notes:
- Professionals in the global credit markets. MarketStack helps sales, trading, advisory, structuring, legal, IT and finance professionals in the institutional credit markets.
It just does.
That should be your experience.
We think filtering through countless noisy sources of content(1) is a waste of your time. Why should you suffer for what matters to everyone else.
We want you to have something personal. We want you to have something simple and intuitive — and that's what we're building with your help. We love criticism. Please contact us.
We could legitimately say "MarketStack has developed a proprietary data modelling approach based upon 40 years of collective experience in the credit markets, enhanced by the latest techniques in semantic web processing." But that would just be noise. We will say we've taken a step back from a long collective experience in the credit markets, and then spent a good long time thinking about how all of the little niche markets within credit are connected. In the semantic world, we've started to develop an ontology(2) for the people, places, institutions, and products which make up the global credit markets. It's a beast of a problem, but we'll keep chipping away at it for our users.
Notes:
- Email mailing lists, news groups, generic RSS feeds, twitter feeds and even Google results are just a few of these noisy sources.
- See, for example semanticweb.org.
Anywhere with an internet connection.
We don't believe in desktop software. Why would anybody build anything that way these days? Mobile apps can be great fun, but why should you have to download anything to get information? That's what the web is for.
We believe in a single web, for all connected devices. We're building an architecture for others to easily take advantage of the work we're doing, and use MarketStack in their own sites and projects.
Soon. Real Soon.
We released our alpha version to our elite 'Stackers' late last year, and were lucky enough to get loads of feedback. We have taken that on board this year and have made it a whole lot better. A wider beta release will be out in the coming weeks. If you haven't already, sign up or get in touch!
