Comment by electic | Hacker News Reader

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This is really cool, great work!

I am one of the developers of Blockmodo. It offer realtime data streamed directly from the exchanges via a WebSocket API. Alternatively, you can also go through our REST API as well to get this data.

Data can be streamed aggregated or if you choose, you can also stream and poll the data on a per-coin basis. For example, if you want the aggregate price of Bitcoin you can do that but if you want the price streamed of Bitcoin for BTC/USD for Bitfinex, you can do that as well.

In addition to the price, we offer full streaming and REST data on:

- Realtime news on each coin. Our backend also detects bot generated articles and excludes those.

- Realtime community posts across different sub-reddits, forums, etc

- Realtime social posts from the developers of each coin (twitter, etc).

- Realtime code checkins from the developers across multiple repos segmented by the coin (github, etc).

- Full coin profiles (name, website, telegram urls, etc).

We do this on over 2700+ coins for developers and terminal makers across 100+ exchanges. You can explore the documentation here:

https://blockmodo.com/docs/api

How can I see it in action?

You can see it in action here by visiting our front page:

https://blockmodo.com.

Another terminal app that is connected to the network is CoinHub for iOS which you can check out here:

https://coinhubapp.com

I don't think you should be allowed to make a one-liner comment "This is really cool!" and then follow it up with a 15 line copy-pasted sales pitch for a potentially competing product.

That being said, it is refreshing to see a barebones data site by geeks for geeks! I'll following up to find out what they have behind the client subscription.

I think it should be allowed, just not encouraged

All I could see on this website were the tweets and things I don't really care about. We seem to have very different goals.

But after talking, I'm curious to see what kind of market data they have. I asked for a small sample.

I am still waiting for reply from electic.

Huh, thanks?

But that's a bit different from what we are doing.

We concentrate on hard numbers and privacy. You seem to focus on news and community. And it seems to me your API requires a login. Also, your homepage looks nice, but I don't find on it the information I want - cold hard number, graphs! However, I find plenty of stuff I do not want - like twits?? I don't want twitter or anyone else to track me.

Your site looks nice, but I think we have very different goals.

Different experiences I guess. We do not require a login. You can use the API without a key.

We actually started of with the price. Our goal was to be as low latency as possible. We have all the stats like price, histograms, market cap, etc in there. Most of our infra is keeping number stats on coins and maintaining profiles on them

However, the days of price and marketcap are over. We are seeing that feedback come from larger customers. They want to see code checkins, they want to see what's happening in the different sub-reddits, they want to keep up with what the team is tweeting. All those feeds are important to give you a holistic view of a coin and the market in general.

Anyway, happy to help and share whatever we can. Feel free to drop us a note.

Marketcap is totally overblown, I agree! We talk a bit about it in our FAQ. And I'm sorry, I assumed I needed a login on your site because I just couldn't find a way to quickly send a query.

Most sites hide they API behind a login and require a key and signing a TOS. That's not public. Our public API is totally public.

I'll be happy to get in touch, because we are starting with the same goals as you: low latency, and stats.

To see what you have achieved there, can I get a sample of your raw data? Like the first 2 days of december, showing at least the bid/ask/last per exchange, per pair. More if you have more.

It should be stale enough and a small enough window to not cause problem extracting or be of much value. Any format you want is fine. You email me a link to the dump and I'll have a look.

I must say I'm very curious now.

Thanks for making this! I was looking for a solution that could provide me a list of cryptocurrency domains.

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