Stock Screening Alert Bot

Retail traders miss small-cap stock opportunities and need faster alerts. Build a screening tool that monitors unusual stock movements, pipeline changes, and analyst sentiment, then alerts users via Slack or email. Target active retail traders and day traders.

Retail trading volumes have stayed elevated post-pandemic and the explosion of options trading and meme stocks has created a durable segment of active retail traders who genuinely monitor their portfolios intraday. The closest incumbent is Finviz, which offers screeners but lacks real-time alerting and Slack integration, though Trade Ideas and TrendSpider both compete on the alerting side with more sophisticated tools. The $500–2k/mo revenue band is realistic for a solo operator but implies a small paying user base, which is the core tension here — retail traders are notoriously price-sensitive and churn heavily, so lifetime value tends to be low unless you can charge closer to $30–50/month and hold retention. The biggest risk is that free tiers from Webull, Thinkorswim, and broker-native screeners already cover most of what casual traders actually use, making paid conversion genuinely hard without a defensible data edge.