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Show HN: Watchmespendmoney
- awillen 6y agoIsn't this what Clinkle did? Or some other failed startup I can't remember the name of?
- Kiro 6y agoClinkle sounds nothing like this.
- awillen 6y agoThere was definitely some failed startup that just published people's credit card purchases in a giant feed... maybe it was just an earlier iteration of Venmo? I've been Googling but can't find it.
- psds2 6y agoFacebook had a feature that showed your friends purchases you made on your timeline. People were pissed that their surprise gifts were ruined.
- brian_herman__ 6y agoMan unintended side effect, wow, I wonder how many other ones there were with things like this? Finding out someones sexual orientation when they order a sex toy?
- justablippy 6y agoYou're thinking of Blippy, by Pud! https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/blippy/ https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/blippy/
- egfx 6y agoWasn’t it Mint that did this? I remember this feature from a failed startup as well.
- classic_c0bra 6y agospend less money on Safeway and more on servers...
- devadvance 6y agoCool idea, though I couldn't get it to load yet. Will look after the deluge of interest goes away! I'm curious: do you see any risk of folks indirectly tracking you via your transactions?
- anderjaska 6y agoGood question! I'm really not afraid of that. These are normal San Francisco purchases IMO. Also there are filters on the backend so I don't share things like medical expenses which reveal much more.
- bot1 6y agoNot working..
- kome 6y ago"An unexpected error has occurred."
- cameronperot 6y agoI had to turn off uBlock Origin to get it to work.
- anderjaska 6y agoThat is very odd. I'm not making an CORS requests from the client
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoDoesn't have to be cross-origin to get blocked by uBlock. That said, the page isn't working for me. The call to https://watchmespendmoney.com/api/plaid/transactions https://watchmespendmoney.com/api/plaid/transactions is returning a 500 Internal Server Error.
- anderjaska 6y agoGot it yup, putting in a fix
- anderjaska 6y agoHey guys! Sorry for the downtime. Working on a fix!
- anderjaska 6y agoIt appears that Plaid is rate limiting and mongodb is at max number of connections.
- anderjaska 6y agoGoing to update mongo. There isn't much I can do about plaid
- devadvance 6y agoMaybe a quick cache in front of Plaid for now? Even in-mem might be a decent short term solution.
- anderjaska 6y agoAh if only I wasn't using vercel and serverless functions!
- styfle 6y agoYou can add a `Cache-Control` response header with `s-maxage` in your Serverless Function to cache at the Edge. https://vercel.com/docs/v2/serverless-functions/edge-caching https://vercel.com/docs/v2/serverless-functions/edge-caching https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cache-Control#Expiration https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...
- istorical 6y agoyou're gonna get so much traffic from the findom community, may as well start charging a monthly subscription fee
- jaywalk 6y agoMight want to spend some money on a better server so that we can actually watch you spend money.
- p0llard 6y agoDo we get to see the sudden enormous AWS bills as HN overloads your site?
- anderjaska 6y agoYeah of course, I'll be sure to add it.
- fullstckuxdev 6y agonot working
- krm01 6y agoInteresting idea. When people post stuff on Linkedin, under their public “professional” persona, they tend to behave in a certain way. I wonder what would happen if this was a social network, where your posts consist of stuff you spend money on. How much would it change the way you handle your dollars.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI'd argue that it would have a detrimental effect, where you must be spending money on whatever is considered hype at that point in time or else you are consider not cool and get cancelled.
- sjtindell 6y agoVenmo surfaces something along these lines, there is a social “feed” of your friend’s transfers and messages to each other.
- bdcravens 6y agoIt hasn't always been this way, but the current default is to set transactions to private. I've never allowed a Venmo transaction to be public.
- battery423 6y agoWhile it sounds very interesting in the beginning with a ton of things, i would argue that at the end of the day, people stoped carring. You can, for example, see whatever people are earning in Sweden. As soon as it is allowed and possible, things like this just become a novelty. There was one guy having data on how often he pleasured himself. First thought 'oh interesting' second thought 'mh okay so what'.
- marcinzm 6y agoI have a suspicion that making spending public would increase spending rather than decrease it. People already spend money on expensive items for social signaling of how well they're doing but there's always ways around that (bootleg items, sales, etc.). With this they'd have no choice but to actually spend the money for social signaling.
- eugenekolo 6y agoOr just push a fake message?
- anderjaska 6y agoUnfortunately vercel does not store logs for you, lesson learned. I can't tell if the email signup isn't working. Please use the link here: https://emailoctopus.com/lists/589a8309-b670-11ea-a3d0-06b4694bee2a/forms/subscribe https://emailoctopus.com/lists/589a8309-b670-11ea-a3d0-06b46... Apologies for the outage, this has been educational. Thank you for the hug of death :)
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago> Thank you for the hug of death :) Reminds me of the Barney mod for Doom. He'd hug you to death, after singing "I love you".
- Ave 6y agoSidenote but the vercel <-> logstash integration is really easy to set up and will persist your logs.
- bracket 6y agoIt fails for a number of times before it works.
- abhinuvpitale 6y agoSuper interesting idea, I wonder if this can be used by insta celeb's to show 'flex' by spending on ridiculously priced goods.!
- anderjaska 6y agoI thought about this. I wonder if IG captures that need sufficiently.
- dang 6y agoThis doesn't appear to be a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- antcas 6y agoWhat rule does it break? It's not immediately clear, but if you log in (at the top of the page) you can log your own expenses to a public transaction feed. And you can participate in the main experiment by commenting on OP's transactions. Seems like a cool and valid Show HN to me.
- dang 6y agoI don't see how people can try this out. It looks like a closed beta with a signup page?
- pvg 6y agoI think it had a beta notification form thingie when posted, then other problems but now it looks like you can log in? It's getting spam and abuse though so it's maybe not quite at the public trying stage yet either way.