Any Stock, One Clear Read
Building a stock tool that talks like a person, not a terminal
StockGlow is a free stock lookup I built on my own. Type a ticker and you get a plain-English outlook and the StockGlow Score, a 0-to-100 read built from the company's reported fundamentals and scored against its sector peers. No account, no paywall, no clutter. The mission fits on one line: the clearest possible read on a stock, in the fewest possible seconds.
The challenge
Most stock sites bury people in data. Dozens of ratios, charts, and analyst ratings, with no one telling you what any of it means together. The people who need the most help, casual investors, get the least. On top of that, anything that sounds like financial advice is a liability. The copy had to be confident enough to be useful, and careful enough to never promise what a stock will do.
My approach
I started with the words and built the product around them. Every stock page leads with 'The quick read,' one sentence that sums up the whole picture, like 'On balance, NVIDIA looks healthy: the strengths outweigh the weak spots.' Below it, 'What's working' and 'Worth watching' split the good from the bad in everyday language instead of metric names. The score gets a label people can say out loud ('Leaning Bullish') and a note that answers the obvious question before it's asked: 'Scored against other Technology stocks, not a fixed scale.' Analyst price targets are shown, but clearly fenced off from the score: 'This is not a StockGlow forecast and not a recommendation. Analyst targets are frequently wrong.' Disclaimers stay short and honest so they get read instead of skipped.
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The impact
StockGlow is live at stockglow.app and free for anyone to use. It's where I get to own every word end to end: the product voice, the score labels, the empty states, and the fine print. It's also proof of how I work. Start with what the user needs to understand, then build the interface to say exactly that.