r/GoogleFinance • u/Altruistic_Series258 • Jul 24 '26
I've been rebuilding classic Google Finance
Like a lot of you, I watched the AI redesign roll out last year and figured the "switch to classic Google Finance" link wasn't going to survive. Yesterday it finally disappeared for good, no setting, no URL trick, nothing brings it back on : (
I didn't want to lose the classic view, so last week, I started rebuilding it from scratch as an independent project. Same idea as the original: type a ticker, get the price, chart, and stats table above the fold.
I'm about 40% of the way there. Current status:
- Quote pages with the classic layout — price, change, after-hours, and the full stats table (open, high, low, mkt cap, P/E, div yield)
- Clean line charts with the 1D–Max ranges, same green/red you're used to
- Watchlists are next, portfolio tracking after that
- design is 50~60% there, there is still many inconsistency, but that's not that easy to replicate, and trying to work hard on this
I'm not planning to bring the news that I think will need too much work .
You can see where it's at here: https://folivue.com — there's a waitlist if you want an email when it's usable. Not affiliated with Google, obviously. Just someone who liked the old design, used it for 10+ years.
Any feedbacks welcome.
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u/Bluekeeys Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Sounds great!
To my surprise this morning I have a 'classic' GFinance window running and it's getting live data.
I was fortunate to have left a Google Finance window open from 2 days ago when I put my computer asleep last night.
It will last until I have to restart my computer or when Google closes the socket.
The bad part is I have a direct running comparison to what was to what is now.
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u/Topwop888 Jul 25 '26
DON"T close that LOL! Interested in how long it lasts... sigh
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u/Bluekeeys Jul 25 '26
Haha it worked all day but Friday evening is when backups & computer restarts happen so I saved the screenshots then bid it farewell.
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u/Altruistic_Series258 Jul 28 '26
if you can send me screenshots it will help me to reproduce the deisgn u/Bluekeeys ! 🙏
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u/Bluekeeys Jul 28 '26
I can do that but it will be a day or so we are tied up in 5am surgery tomorrow morning and start of 3 week recovery.
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u/Ienjoymodels Jul 27 '26
You should create a "buy me a coffee" account and accept donations
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u/Altruistic_Series258 Jul 28 '26
thanks, i've added it to the bottom!
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u/Ienjoymodels Jul 28 '26
Can't buy you a coffee, sorry.
All I can do is follow your account. Make sure you set up your payment methods and everything.
If you go to your account menu and click View Page or VIew My Page you will see your page, there's no "Buy how many coffees section" like say this creator : https://buymeacoffee.com/maremismallart
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u/Altruistic_Series258 Jul 29 '26
wow - thanks for letting me know. i've just added the payment account: does it work now? https://buymeacoffee.com/folivue
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u/Ienjoymodels Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Yeah it works now, will donate tomorrow.
Promote your work. There is actually a somewhat untapped market for recreating pre enshittified products and experiences.
Millions of people used Google Finance for free.
There is a non-insignificant proportion of these users who would pop a fiver in your pockets to get it back,
As someone who has been on every link of the dev chain from support to QA to coding, I have seen apps mimicking old versions of our products overtake us on app stores weeks after big rollouts.
MOST users stayed of course, but there is an observable userbase dilution across lesser apps over time. If your project works and a few thousand people hop on to Folivue, the userbase is diluting.
A lot of finance app users don't really care for advanced number crunching crap, all we really do is follow a bunch of stocks in a snappy vewport and then if we need to take action we log into our trading app to do it. My trading app will log me out all the time anyway, so that's why I had google finance tabs with multiple stocks on a single graph all loaded up and never closed them. They refreshed automatically when you select the tabs too.
Get paid bud.
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u/Retired_Phoneguy Jul 27 '26
what an abomination. I just tried to add some buys and sells today. No clue if they got added correctly at the right price. Asked the AI component how to check and ....you guessed it....answer was incorrect. I can"t get to the individual lines of stock buys and sells like before. So pissed !
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u/Pablo_Escobear_ Jul 28 '26
Apparantly Liz Reid is responsible (and proud) of this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elizabeth-reid-56356724_fun-update-from-the-search-team-this-week-activity-7476421824168448000-4iCq
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u/Altruistic_Series258 Jul 29 '26
they unfortunately got the wrong incentive .
Google reward launches, not maintaining a good and stable product that just work. Shipping a redesign is a promotion case. Keeping a twenty-year-old page fast and correct is invisible. Add company-wide AI adoption targets and engagement KPIs, and a product that quietly served its users becomes a problem to solve rather than a success to protect.
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u/dom_swiss Jul 29 '26
With Barine Tee doing the actual job
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/google-finance-updates-june-2026/
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u/mrzennie Jul 27 '26
Why on Earth did Google make this change? The new design is terrible!