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I was talking to my physio today (doing fine thanks for asking), and she was fed up about having to prove that a client had not paid her - manually matching pay
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
I was talking to my physio today (doing fine thanks for asking), and she was fed up about having to prove that a client had not paid her - manually matching payments into her bank account with appointments etc. It wasted an hour of her time or more.
Now the heart of that is 5 lines of python. It could be written by anyone after a days "starting from zero" coding experience.
But actually solving that in real world is a mess of just trying to access the data - it's her data and she only wants to see her bits. But the level of effort is ridiculous.
Anyway my point is that solving problems like software for doctor's offices is not the point - that's just building another silo. A doctor who has (secure) access to a industry wide common open data layer can do all the work to run their office themselves.
In short we are trying to solve the wrong problem - usually because proprietary code is not a profitable as proprietary data
- MontyCarloHall 5y ago> usually because proprietary code is not a[s] profitable as proprietary data Bingo. This is why Google et al. would never sell your data; they just keep it for themselves and merely sell to advertisers the ability to precisely target you (“pick a demographic down to the shampoo brand and we can target your ads to it”). But those advertisers (or anyone else) will never see a single iota of your data. It’s simply too valuable.
- datameta 5y agoIn a weird kafkaesque way this makes me feel better about my data.
- amelius 5y agoNow when you click an ad, the advertiser knows which shampoo brand you use. Next, when you click an ad, the advertiser knows which medical problems you have (because that's where they targeted their ad at). Google has a data leak, and nobody seems to care about it.
- datameta 5y agoLuckily I haven't clicked an ad in a decade!
- mbrodersen 5y agoEasy. Don’t click ads.
- kyleee 5y agoAnd beyond that, block them ruthlessly without a second thought
- fma 5y agoSounds like she just needs to sign up for something like Square where your customers set an appointment, order services and pay and invoice. They can even be asked to pay before hand. Square is not the only player doing service appointment payments.
- tuatoru 5y agoThe reason that people don't do the "obvious" thing is rarely that they're ignorant or stupid. Best not to assume that you know all the relevant context.
- fma 5y agoWhy do you assume this is the obvious thing? Maybe you shouldn't assume till you know all the relevant context? I have a brick and mortar small business that takes appointments, have monthly recurring services and did not use Square appointments. We did everything manually to handle calendar appointments, invoice, charging for payments. Found out after a few months the time is not worth the savings and rather just get a service like Square. I thought maybe his client was the same and was trying to help. But hey maybe Square was very obvious for your brick and mortar service based business and I'm one of the few "ignorant and stupid one".
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoThat's very much not my point. What you are describing is the square development team taking their representation of a client, an invoice, a payment event and so on, and then they guess a feature like match up invoices and develop it and write a gui and hide it somewhere and... But we (society) should have a standard representation of a calendar event, standard access to bank accounts and so on so that all she needs to go is write five lines Once the data is free we won't need proprietary co e