Building a custom widget for my friends newsletter

How I built a custom OpenBB widget to save my friend hours of manual work on his newsletter with 190,000+ subscribers.

The open source code is available here.

Last weekend I spoke with my friend Phil Rosen.

He used to work as a Senior Markets Reporter at Business Insider.

And left to start his own news and research outlet: Opening Bell Daily, just over 1 year ago.

He's been sharing a newsletter everyday since and has crossed over 190,000 subscribers!!!

Funnily enough, we commented on how we were speaking on a Saturday morning and the weekends are the times where we are the most productive.

As I was sharing more of OpenBB and how he can utilize it for the content in his newsletter, he shared a table chart that he crafts manually to his audience, which always takes him a significant amount of time to do every single day.

Well, I wouldn't be an engineer by training if I didn't solve this for him.

More than that - to celebrate 1 year of Opening Bell Daily:

Any OpenBB user can add this URL as a custom backend application on OpenBB and have Phil's market snapshot on their screen every day. https://openbb-opening-bell-daily.fly.dev

Or you can also sign up to Phil's newsletter and get it in your inbox along with insightful content, every day!

PS: I have made this code open source so others can create their own widgets for OpenBB or get inspired.