Quick background: public companies have to file everything with the SEC. Who’s buying their own stock, what hedge funds hold, who just crossed 5% with an activist stake. It’s all public and free on sec.gov. It’s also served as XML that makes you want to quit programming, and every filer formats it differently.
Edgrapi does that parsing once and hands it back as clean JSON. One call, one URL. That’s the product.
Month one taught me things I didn’t expect.
The data lies if you read it literally. Michael Burry’s latest fund filing is 66% Palantir and Nvidia. Except they’re puts, bearish bets. A naive parser reports him as massively long two stocks he’s actually betting against. Half the fund-tracker tools out there get this wrong, and getting it right turned out to be most of the value.
Postgres quietly broke every login for a week. Worked perfectly on my laptop, failed in production. A floating-point column was rounding my 10-digit timestamps, so every login token was born already expired by about three hours. SQLite stored it fine, Postgres didn’t. I only caught it because I logged the raw stored value instead of the error message.
Every API call took 2.6 seconds, no matter what. Cheap call, heavy call, same 2.6s. That flatness was the tell: it wasn’t the work, it was nine database round-trips to a server in another region. Collapsed it to two. It’s 0.7s now.
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