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Watch the tape. Read the talker.

Ticker Tape is a Chrome extension for traders on X. It filters the timeline down to one market, rates the accounts you follow on four dimensions, and keeps every idea you save in one searchable library. It is our own product, currently in beta.

Ticker Tape·Variance product·In beta
Ticker Tape panel open beside the X timeline in Stocks mode
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The problem

The feed is fast. It is not organised.

FinTwit is where the tape gets talked about first. It is also one timeline carrying every market at once, sorted by engagement, with no record of who was straight with you last time.

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What we are building

Filter the talk. Rate the talker. Save the tape.

Ticker Tape runs inside the timeline you already read. There is no separate app to check and no feed to rebuild.

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Where it stands

Beta, and going out through a channel that already exists.

Ticker Tape is not published yet. It goes out first through the Camel Finance channel, so waitlist members get it before the public Chrome Web Store listing, and their ratings set the first scores everyone else reads.

Pricing is £9 a month or £79 a year with a seven day trial, no card to start and no free tier. A rating system is worth nothing without enough ratings to be meaningful, which is why the launch runs through an audience rather than a cold listing.

It is the same reasoning behind every product engagement we take on: distribution first, software second.

A walk through the build

Screen by screen.

Four pieces of interface, each doing one job. Sample data throughout: nothing is live yet.

Rating an account
Rating an account

A profile as a rater sees it: your own sliders on the left, the aggregate community score and its breakdown on the right.

The saved archive
The saved archive

The archive with sample rows, showing the columns it sorts and filters on and the account each idea came from.

Leaderboards by market
Leaderboards by market

One board per market, ranked on the aggregate of individual ratings rather than follower count or engagement.

Install, rate, save
Install, rate, save

The onboarding sequence as it appears in the extension: install, rate and filter, then return to the archive.

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Building a product for traders, or an audience you already have?

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