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Quail mentions (4)

• Square Is Down

  This is absolutely killing me (https://quailhq.com) -- I've got hundreds of antique stores trying to get us on the phone, all wanting to know why their card readers have suddenly stopped working. It's going to be a long, long day. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

  Two of these (plus another, Price Parrot, that I forgot to include: https://sandpiperhq.com/pricing !), are spin-outs of a side-project (https://quailhq.com) that I started in 2014and that I've been working on for 7 years -- and that became my full-time job in 2021. That one definitely isn't a failure! The five (six including Price Parrot) are just the failures from this year. I try to live by "fail fast"! - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support

  I offer phone support for a niche accounting app (https://quailhq.com), and everything in this article rings 112% true to me -- but especially this: > ...all sorts of people call you, and I’ve really learned a lot by talking with users directly on the phone. Sometimes users call me because they want to report a bug, or they've forgotten their email address. Sometimes they want business advice (!), or they have a... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• [Opinion] Take high paying job or finish out SaaS

  Source: juggled a SaaS side-project https://quailhq.com and a full-time engineering job (Palantir) for years; am now full-time self-employed on the SaaS at roughly the same income I had from the job. Source: almost 3 years ago

Plaid mentions (78)

• Can someone's Venmo/PayPal balance be approved to show up in a 3rd party app?

  Oh this is a https://plaid.com/ use case I think. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Need help finding simulation business bank accounts + credit cards

  My company made a financial dashboard for small businesses that aggregates information from financial institutions into a simplified view. The problem I need to solve: our only way of showing what it looks like when in use, is by connecting our own bank accounts + credit cards, but of course that exposes our personal info. I'd like to setup a demo account using fake financial data that simulates a real world... Source: 11 months ago

• Need A Solution to Amex Business Credit Card Data

  I have been looking into this and found Plaid, Yodlee, and Flinks. I am not 100% if any of these will work. Source: almost 1 year ago

• (Canada) Does anyone know of an API service that will users to connect with their personal bank and return things like their bank feed?

  Yeah I fully expect to pay, but I am sure there are companies that do this. It's simply reading data, I am not touching anything within the user's bank account. Places like Australia are quite big on open banking I believe, that allows, with proper verification, to access bank account information. I've just found one company plaid.com, it doesn't have all the institutions I was hoping for but the majority of big... Source: about 1 year ago

• Intuits Mint is garbage this year, need other recs for tracking expenses.

  Switching platforms won't help. Every money visualization app on the market uses plaid to fetch their data, so every app will have the same data quality issues. Source: about 1 year ago