A few months ago I needed to look up a company's debt-to-equity ratio. Not a complicated request. I ended up on Bloomberg's pricing page and closed the tab.

$2,000 a month. For data I needed once.

I'm an engineer. So I did what engineers do when something is broken or expensive: I decided to build a replacement. Not the full Bloomberg Terminal — I'm not delusional — but the specific slice of it I actually needed. Fundamental analysis. Clean data. No paywall. No sales call required.

That became pomegra.io.

What I actually built

The core is a stock analysis tool that pulls fundamentals — P/E, EPS, revenue growth, debt ratios, FCF — and surfaces them without requiring a finance degree to interpret. The interface is opinionated: it shows you what matters, not everything at once.

Under the hood it's not magic. Public data sources, some normalization logic, a bit of AI to turn the raw numbers into readable analysis. The hard part wasn't the data — it was deciding what to leave out.…