I received a rather passive email from the company telling me that the Stocks app has lost its data source. And indeed, these seem to have been removed from the catalog (but not from my device)
What is the ETA for restoring these apps?
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With the removal of the stocks app my Tidbyt has become almost useless. Please bring the stock app back.
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The whole reason I bought a TidByt was because of the stocks app.
Please bring this back ASAP, and in the meantime discuss your strategy.
My guess is that the service you used to collect data has gone offline.
What are some other options?
Who can change the code to pull from a new data source?
If you can’t find a free source, perhaps let users put in a paid API key? Some users will be happy to pay for a data feed.
PLEASE CAN WE HAVE AN UPDATE ASAP FROM THE TIDBYT TEAM?
Thank you 
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Apparently nobody at Tidbyt is monitoring this forum. A sure sign the company is entering a death spiral?
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I was running into issues with API limits with some of the other stock applets that were using Alpha Vantage (25 requests per day) or upgrade for $40+ per month for 75 per minute.
I worked today on a simple stock app, put in a PR earlier for it. New App: Stock Spotlight by sethcottle · Pull Request #2641 · tidbyt/community · GitHub
It uses Finnhub, their API seemingly limits you to 60 API calls per minute… so the goal is to hopefully provide a bit better real-time support. I’m not day trading or anything, so it’s pretty simplistic to just give me what I need for somewhat of a portfolio overview. Just showcases symbol, price, percent change. Up to 3 symbols per added applet instance (5s each for the 15s total applet display time). Played with Alpha Vantage and Polygon, settled on Finnhub in the end.
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