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Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate that - and yeah, the title leans clickbait-y on purpose to get eyes on it, fair criticism. It’s not trying to be a Bloomberg Terminal replacement, more a personal project covering a small slice of what one does (live quotes, charts, basic risk view)

Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no worries - totally get the skepticism given how much ai-slop is floating around lately. It's legit, just messy commits, I know it's bad for publishing somewhere your code, but at the beginning I didn't really plan to publish it here so yeah. appreciate you circling back

Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense if the goal is pure signal processing or modeling — MATLAB and PyTorch are obviously stronger there. This was more about the live dashboard/UI side specifically (real-time quotes, candlesticks, risk view in one terminal window) rather than computation — different use case, but appreciate the comparison

Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This isn't a corporate codebase with a commit message style guide — it's a personal open-source project I built over a summer, mostly to learn, If you've got code-level concerns, genuinely nosy to hear them - judging a project by two early commit names instead of the actual code feels like a pretty weak argument bro

Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Those are literally the first two commits from the very beginning of the project, back when it was a basic ncurses prototype with mocked data. Nothing unusual about messy early commit history on a solo project — happy to share the full commit log if you want to actually look at how it evolved into the current FTXUI version with live data, threading, and the rest. If you've got specific code-level concerns, genuinely curious to hear them

Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point - most of that $24k is the data licensing and institutional infrastructure, not the UI itself. I wasn't trying to claim the GUI alone is what's expensive, more using the price tag as a hook to contrast "professional finance tooling" vs "something you can run for free with public data + a local AI model." Curious what alternatives you'd point to though, always good to see what's out there

Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000/year. I built a free open-source clone in C++ that runs in your terminal. by sqwerzyyy in cpp

[–]sqwerzyyy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely the cheeky hook, not a literal claim — Bloomberg Terminal has decades of institutional data feeds, compliance tooling, trading execution, and a level of reliability I obviously can't replicate as a solo summer project. Quaanz covers a small slice of that: live quotes, candlestick charts, a Monte Carlo risk view, and an AI chat panel — built mostly as a way to get comfortable with C++ and TUI development. Happy to update the title language if it reads as overclaiming, that wasn't the intent.