Frank Makes

To be honest, Claude did most of this. This tool isn’t available as there are much better tools online with better data, so unless I was ready to pay 300 dollars a month for API access, I couldn’t really make an accurate tool, but nevertheless, this is what we made. The signals tend to be a bit late since we don’t have the most up to date data. However, it was fun! If you want the code, it’s available for download here to run on your local system.

StockLens is a personal stock research tool that combines live market data with Claude AI to generate instant buy/hold/avoid signals on any US stock. Built with Node.js on the backend and a clean dark-mode dashboard up front, it pulls real-time data from multiple sources — Finnhub for prices, fundamentals, news, and insider activity; Polygon.io for chart history; Reddit (r/wallstreetbets, r/stocks) and StockTwits for social sentiment; and FRED for macro indicators like the Fed Rate and 10Y Yield.

Type in any ticker and StockLens runs a full analysis in seconds: a composite score out of 100 broken into seven weighted categories — Technical, Fundamental, Valuation/PEG, Insider Activity, Relative Strength, Sentiment, and Earnings — then surfaces a clear BUY / HOLD / AVOID signal with an AI-written rationale.

It shows a 12-month price chart with moving averages and RSI, support and resistance levels, last four quarters of earnings surprises, Piotroski F-Score, analyst estimate revisions, institutional ownership, and a live social feed — all on one scrollable page.

The watchlist sidebar tracks a handful of stocks with live prices and signals so you can scan your portfolio at a glance. It runs entirely locally, costs pennies per analysis call to Claude, and is free to set up with Finnhub’s free API tier.

FORA is a non-intrusive journaling and digital archive app designed around a simple belief: capturing life shouldn’t feel like work, and reflecting on it shouldn’t feel like scrolling a feed. It’s a calm, modern, individual-first space where fleeting moments become lasting entries — without notifications, streaks, likes, or pressure.

It’s split intentionally across two surfaces — mobile for collecting, desktop for composing — so each device does what it’s best at.

This idea came to me during the pandemic when I was looking for a simple journaling app that gave me the ability to use mobile as a way of capturing but not the distracting way of scrolling through other entries, but also balancing it with the ability to share.

Initially, as I was building this out with a few team members, the quote came back around 30k for a prototype. Now, with vibe code, I was able to build this on Lovable for about $25 dollars worth of tokens.

The problem it solves

Most journaling and memory apps fall into one of two traps:

1. Too heavy — they demand long-form writing sessions, daily prompts, or rigid structures, so people abandon them within weeks.
2. Too noisy — they mimic social media, turning private reflection into performance, with feeds, reactions, and algorithmic surfacing.

In between, the raw material of life — a photo of morning light, a half-formed thought, a voice note from a walk — gets scattered across camera rolls, Notes apps, and voice memos, never to be revisited.

FORA solves this by separating capture from composition. You collect freely throughout the day on your phone with zero friction. Later, at a desk, you sit down and weave those fragments into something meaningful. The app respects that these are two different mental modes and gives each one its own home.

How to use it

📱 On mobile — Collect

The mobile app is a collection bin, not a writing tool. Three floating buttons at the bottom of the screen are all you need:

• 📷 Camera — snap or upload a photo
• ✏️ Pen — jot a quick text fragment
• 🎙️ Mic — record a voice memo

Everything you capture flows into a mobile timeline where you can review or delete fragments. Nothing is forced into an entry yet — these are just raw materials, waiting.

🖥️ On desktop — Compose

When you’re ready to reflect deeply, open FORA on a laptop or desktop. The interface opens into three panels:

• Left — Collage Bin: every fragment you collected on mobile can be merged into the entry.
• Center — Main Feed: an infinite scroll of your composed journal entries
• Right — Timeline: a collapsible scrubber through years and months of your archive

To write, you start a new entry from a floating action button and drag fragments from the bin into your entry. Once a fragment is merged into an entry, it disappears from the bin — leaving you with a clean slate again. The bin is a staging area, not a hoard.

👥 Sharing memories (social, but quiet)

FORA includes a small, deliberate social layer for linked friends only — no public feeds, no followers.

• Share a fragment or collage from your own entries with a friend
• It lands in their collage bin, where they can fold it into their own journal
• When a memory is shared between two people, both can see it lives in the other’s archive too — a quiet acknowledgment of a shared memory

I’ve always wanted to build digital tools but never had the coding skills to do it. Vibe coding changed that. Now I can actually make the things I used to just imagine — small, useful tools that solve everyday problems.

This is where I put them. Each one started as a personal itch to scratch, built and tested by me, and uploaded here in case it’s useful to you too.

Try them out, use them freely, or download them if something sticks.

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