About/Built by an analyst · Open beta
Built by an analyst who got tired of bad tools.
Quant Candles started with one person and a multi-decade corpus of US equity prices that he couldn't reach through any tool he trusted.
Founded
2026
Team
Solo
founder-led
Status
Open beta
free to try
US tickers covered
26,000+
We built the dashboard we wanted — fast, honest, no asterisks — and shipped it. Today we're in open beta, collecting feedback from the first wave of users before we open the doors wider.
The data still comes from Financial Modeling Prep. The honesty still does too.
What we believe
Four things we'll defend.
The principles we use to decide what to build, what to charge, and what to walk away from.
- 01
Honest data
We surface every quirk in the corpus. No hidden survivorship bias, no peeking at tomorrow's data.
- 02
Premium UX, modest price
We charge what software costs to run, not what it costs to take the elevator at a hedge fund.
- 03
Built for research
If a feature doesn't help you decide, we don't ship it. And we'll tell you when it doesn't work.
- 04
Safety by default
Your backtests, notebooks, and portfolios are visible only to you unless you share.
Milestones
How we got here.
From notebook to open beta.
2025
Started as a side project
One analyst, a notebook, and the public US equity corpus from Financial Modeling Prep.
2026
Local DuckDB pipeline
Full historical corpus loaded into a single DuckDB file. Every screen is a SQL query.
2026
Open beta launch
First users sign up. We're collecting feedback before we turn on paid tiers.
Today
Where we are
Self-funded. One founder. One product. We still ship the dashboard we want to use.
How it's built
The stack, end to end.
If you're a quant shopping for infrastructure, here's what Quant Candles runs on.
DuckDB + Postgres + Parquet on R2
Meilisearch for transcripts and news
Next.js 16, tRPC, Hono, Bun workers
React 19, Tailwind v4, lightweight-charts
Supabase Auth + row-level security
Server-Sent Events for live quotes (Pro+)
Open beta
Free to try while we collect feedback.
Hosted on the edge
US + EU regions via our cloud providers.
Self-funded
No VC. No pressure to ship the wrong thing fast.
Try the product, then judge.
Two minutes to see everything Quant Candles does.