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Mint and Quicken are end user applications, Plaid is not. Plaid is an API provider to access financial information from multiple institutions.
by cocoa19 5y ago
Mint and Quicken are end user applications, Plaid is not. Plaid is an API provider to access financial information from multiple institutions.
- perl4ever 5y agoOk, but it's like the portion of Mint or Quicken that interfaces with financial institutions, and it enables end user applications, right? When I wrote "how is it different" I meant how is it different in the task it performs which (I assume) Mint and Quicken also perform.
- w4llstr33t 5y agoMint also did screen scraping, powered by Yodlee [1], if that’s what you mean. So, yes, same risks as Plaid. They later moved off of Yodlee to Intuit APIs, post acquisition, although those also do screen scraping [2], and thus carry the same risks. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537825 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537825 [2] https://money.cnn.com/2010/12/02/pf/mint_leaves_yodlee/ https://money.cnn.com/2010/12/02/pf/mint_leaves_yodlee/