The financial data industry runs on vibes and legacy software. Bloomberg Terminal: $24,000/year for a keyboard from 1983 and a UI that looks like it was designed by someone who genuinely hates users. Koyfin: prettier, but $600/year and you're still just renting access to the same SEC filings that are public domain.
I built Finterm — a keyboard-first browser terminal for stocks and crypto. Free tier is actually free, data comes from public sources, and the whole thing runs on Cloudflare Workers at the edge. Here's what building it taught me.
The platform constraint that broke all my dependencies
I deployed to Cloudflare Workers instead of a Node.js server. This was either the smartest or dumbest decision depending on the day.
Workers runs V8 isolates, not Node. This means: no fs, no crypto module (as you know it), no bcrypt, no axios, no cheerio, no jsdom. Half of npm just... doesn't work.
