u/MostDouble7144

Every morning I'd spend 20 minutes piecing together what was happening with the stocks I actually own — earnings, analyst upgrades, macro news. Most of it irrelevant to my portfolio, buried under general market noise.

So I built AfterBell. It pulls everything relevant to your specific holdings and delivers it as a short audio briefing before market open. You listen on your commute, skip the noise.

Been building it for 3 months, just opened the beta. If anyone here wants to try it — it's free right now on iOS.

Beta link

Curious what you'd actually want in a morning briefing — earnings only? Macro context? Analyst moves? Genuinely open to feedback.

I'm on the FIRE path and one thing that's been bugging me is how much time I spend just staying informed about my portfolio. I hold about 15 positions, mostly US stocks, and every morning it's the same thing. Check multiple news sites, skim analyst notes, look at earnings. An hour disappears and I still miss things.

I know a lot of people here hold diversified portfolios across multiple markets which makes it even worse. You're checking US news, European news, maybe some emerging markets. The information is everywhere and there's no single place that just tells you what happened with your specific holdings.

I got frustrated enough that I started building something to fix it. It takes your portfolio, pulls the latest news for each stock, AI summarizes everything, and turns it into a short audio briefing. 5 to 10 minutes, just your holdings, listen on your commute.

Still early but curious how other people here handle this. Do you have a system for staying on top of everything or do you just accept that you'll miss some things? Especially interested in how European investors manage this since a lot of the tools out there are very US focused.