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Build a Real-Time Stock Dashboard in 5 Minutes Using PulpMiner and Bolt

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I just built a real-time stock market dashboard in under 5 minutes — no scraping scripts, no backend boilerplate, and no client-side API calls.

Here’s the stack I used:

✅ PulpMiner – Converts any public webpage into a structured JSON API using AI

⚡ Bolt.new – AI-powered dev tool to create backend+frontend+UI fast

🚀 Netlify – For 1-click deploys from Bolt

🔗 Live demo: https://superlative-choux-14a165.netlify.app/

🛠️ What I Built

A beautiful dashboard that shows live stock data for a selected symbol (Tesla, in this case) using a secure server-side call to the PulpMiner API — rendered instantly on the frontend using Bolt.

🔐 Backend Logic: API Call from Server Only

To keep my API key safe and avoid exposing endpoints on the frontend, I ensured the API call happens entirely server-side.

This is the request structure:

curl -i \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "apikey: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \ -X POST \ -d '{"SYMBOL":"<YOUR_VALUE>"}' \ https://api.pulpminer.com/external/<API_ID>
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I built a serverless function inside Bolt (which supports Supabase Edge Functions-like server environments) to securely call the API and return the data to the frontend.

🤖 My Prompt for Bolt.new

Here’s the exact prompt I used in Bolt.new to generate the full working dashboard:

Create a beautiful dashboard for this API response:

{ "data": { "currentPrice": "320.63", "change": "-0.57", "changePercent": "-0.18%", "afterHoursVolume": "2.15M", "closePrice": "$321.20", "closeChange": "-4.39", "closeChangePercent": "-1.35%", "dayRange": "318.25 - 326.25", "yearRange": "182.00 - 488.54", "volume": "87.36M", "averageVolume": "110.39M", "peRatio": "186.01", "eps": "$1.73", "yield": "N/A", "dividend": "N/A", "exDividendDate": "N/A", "shortInterest": "69.96M", "shortPercent": "2.49%", "analystRatingsCount": 55, "companyDescription": "Tesla, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of electric vehicles and energy generation and storage systems..." }, "errors": null }
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This is the data we will get when invoking an API.

I need this API to always be called from the server side only and show response in a UI on the client — no API calls in the client side.

Bolt handled the UI, server function, and connection seamlessly. I just provided the prompt and pasted the API endpoint + key.

⚡ What Bolt.new Did for Me

  • Created a secure backend function to fetch stock data via PulpMiner API
  • Rendered a clean React-based dashboard UI
  • Hooked up backend to frontend with loading states and error handling
  • Gave me a 1-click deploy to Netlify button

🎯 Why I Used PulpMiner

PulpMiner turns any webpage (like Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, etc.) into an instant JSON API. This means:

  • No Cheerio, Puppeteer, or XPath logic
  • No scraping headaches
  • You get structured, reliable, AI-generated data from any page with a API

Perfect for stock dashboards, crypto tickers, price trackers, news feeds, and more.

✅ Final Result

  • ⚙️ Server-only API fetch = API key is protected
  • 🧠 AI-generated JSON = no scraping code
  • 🖼️ Clean UI = generated by AI from a simple prompt
  • 🔄 Live updates = ready for auto-refresh or reactivity

🌱 What You Can Build with This Stack

  • Stock or crypto dashboards
  • Price monitoring apps
  • News aggregators
  • Earnings or financial overview portals
  • SEO or keyword trackers

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