Uptrends Release Notes

March 2024

V3.2

• Event Highlights on Price Charts — one of our favorite editions this year; whenever a major news event or alert affects the price of a stock, it gets tagged on the stocks price chart and categorized by event type. Added a right-hand panel to show AI-generated summaries of the events as you scroll.
• Dedicated Alerts Feed — added a dedicated feed page that shows recently-triggered news alerts globally. The feed enables filtering by alert type (lawsuit, news surge, earnings, M&A, etc.) and date-range, and sorts by most-recent, most-mentioned, or even 'most unusual'.
• Dedicated Trending Topics Feed — after we made the dedicated alerts feed, we thought 'hmmm... we should have a dedicated page for trending topics too', so we built it. This is a basic feed of recent AI-clustered topics detected throughout stock market news. Ths can also be filtered and sorted like the alerts feed.
• Revised Pricing Model — after adding some major features to our Pro subscription tier, and discovering that some Pro users have abused the unlimited news alerts afforded by the Pro tier, we decided it was time to increase the price from $24.99/mo to $49.99/mo. We're also experimenting with a reverse trial approach to our LImited tier (vs. the traditional free trial)
• Mobile Facelift — Added some much-needed formatting improvements to our mobile pages. Now price charts format nicely, tables afford more scrollability, and text sizing in a few spots has been improved to generally look better. Right now roughly 35% of site usage is on mobile devices.

February 2024

V3.1

• 1-Day Time Horizon — added 1-day range for stock price and news sentiment data on the Trending page to make it easier for our short-term trader friends to see what's going ON! The price data was the easy part... having enough news coverage to reliably calculate sentiment for most stocks on a 24-hour window was trickier.
• Reintroduced the Ticker Tape — brought back the beloved scrolling 'ticker tape' at the top of the Trending page by popular demand. This was an early feature we removed to make the site load more efficiently, but now that we've learned a thing or two (found some new libraries) we restored it to its original glory!
• International Stocks — one of our most common requests by FAR... 'how can I see data for stocks outside the US?'. Seeing that more than 50% of our users are based outside the US we decided we had to make it happen. Still working on ever-expanding our coverage of stocks and news, international stocks at least show up in search now, whether or not we have news coverage for them.
• Interest Group Pages — added pages for broader 'interest groups' of stocks. Users can set alerts to be notified about events affecting constituent stocks within larger 'groups' (ie. Tech stocks, Large caps, Health care, Meme stocks, etc.) so we figured we should have a dedicated page that shows the actual constituents of each group.
• Affiliate Program — an last but not least, a fun one: we introduced the Uptrends affiliate program! Now you can get rewarded for sharing Uptrends with your friends, followers, and mothers-in-law. You get a 30% commission for each person that signs up for a paid account with your referral code, they get a 20% discount of their subscription; a win-win!
• Fixed Some Bugsss 🐛 — bonus: fixed a few bugs, including a pesky one that was preventing some users from updating their alerts watchlist.

January 2024

V3.0

• Introducing Uptrends v3.0 — welcomed our biggest website upgrade to-date, complete with a fully redesigned UI and a whole new set of features to help you stay ahead of market news!
• Trending Stocks Leaderboard — we redesigned the trending stocks table to be more useful and more customizable. Now you can easily toggle between live leaderboards of stocks with surging news, or stocks with highly positive/negative sentiment. Customize the number of rows, time window, and columns.
• Email Alerts — we introduced off-platform alerts for the first time. Now you'll get notified about important news affecting your stocks straight to your inbox. Just create a watchlist and begin receiving email alerts immediately.
• 12 New Alert Types — we significantly expanded the types of alerts you'll receive. Now easily turn on alerts for news surges, sentiment spikes, price changes, trending topics, earnings, analyst ratings, executive activity, whale activity, mergers & acquisitions, lawsuits, FDA approval, and bankruptcy rumors
• AI Alert & Topic Summaries — we added AI-generated summaries to topics and alerts to take the guesswork out of discerning over-arching opinion about major stock events. AI summaries parse hundreds of articles pertaining to any alert or topic, weighing the positive/negative outlooks, and synthesizing actionable summaries to give you a better consensus takeaway.

November 2023

V2.4

• Event highlights on stock charts — this month we rolled out AI event detection offically onto the Uptrends.ai website. Stock charts now highlight when a given company experiences a surge news coverage and summarizes the event into a few sentences
• Expanded news coverage — added coverage from a few thousand more news sources to improve mentions tracking and make coverage more robust.
• Updated weekly roundup email — revised the weekly roundup email to include more information about stocks with trending conversation volume and highlight alerts from the past week.
• Updated account settings — now you can more easily manage your account, billing, and subscription preferences.

October 2023

V2.3

• Introducing the FREE tier — now you can find which stocks are trending online, explore sentiment & news events, create watchlists, and set alerts for FREE, no credit card required.
• More historical & intraday data — we added historical price and sentiment data for every stock we currently track. Now you can go back in time to see news volume, sentiment trends, and price 30, 90, and 180 days into the past. What's more, you can now also see intraday sentiment, on an hourly basis.

• View news events by day on stock charts — now you can double click into any day on any given stock chart to see the snippets and events that effected the stock's price.
• Set news alerts from anywhere — we made it A LOT easier to set alerts and be notified about market-moving news for any stock. From any page, just hover over the name of any ticker, and a bell icon will appear. Click the bell to set an alert, and you'll be notified on-platform whenever there's a news event for that stock

September 2023

V2.2

• Trending stocks by mention volume — you can now easily see which stocks have the most news coverage or biggest surge in news coverage over the past week or month by switching the sort to 'Mentions' in the Hot Stocks section on the Trending page
• Hover insights on stock charts — need to know sentiment or mention volume by day? You can now hover over any day on a stock chart to see that day's total news volume and average news sentiment.
• 'Getting Started' checklist — introduced a 'getting started' checklist for new users to walk through how to use the platform when you first create an account
• Search by sector or topic — you wanted to see news grouped by sectors and topics, so we made it happen. Find any sector or topic in the top search bar to see news sentiment details and mention volume over time.
• In-depth sector and topic insights — see which stocks are driving conversation around any topic or within any sector. Just search for a topic (earnings, interest rates, AI) or sector (information tech, health care), or find one on our trending page, and see which stocks are being mentioned most.

August 2023

V2.1  

• Expanded coverage — we've expanded coverage to included the top 5,000 US-based publicly-traded stocks based on news coverage

• Available on mobile devices — we've made Uptrends available on Mobile!
• Weekly roundup email — added a weekly roundup email reviewing trending stocks, sectors, and topics in stock market news
• Fixed stock chart issues — fixed a bug that prevented certain accounts from viewing stock charts

July 2023

V2.0

• Introducing Uptrends.ai! — we've officially transitioned from our previous domain at Babbl.dev to Uptrends.ai! All links on Babbl are now redirected to Uptrends.ai and old accounts are deprecated

• Completely redesigned UI — the new website has been completely redesigned, including a fully revised trending stocks page with a trending stocks leaderboard, mentions tracking by topic and by sector

• Watchlists — we've added watchlists so you can save stocks you'd like to follow

• Search — we've added a search function so you can now look-up individual stocks and see their mentions, price, sentiment and major headlines over time

• Fixed Delays — we've fixed bugs that were causing data feeds to be slightly delayed