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The reasons why I want api for my consumer apps have more to do with my own automation desires than with any personal assistant. Our kids use a kid friendly de

The reasons why I want api for my consumer apps have more to do with my own automation desires than with any personal assistant. Our kids use a kid friendly debit card product where we can fund their accounts on demand. I also have a chore schedule system I built where they enter their chores each day. I'd love to be able to automate allowance based on chore completion but there's no way to integrate the two. Every 2 weeks I enter all my accounts, credit cards, etc into a spreadsheet for graphing and tracking. I'd love if there was an api for these services to fetch the data instead of manually logging in.

yoav 3y ago
Just make them fill out a timesheet in google sheets or something. And then their chore “paycheck” is every two weeks. Like simulated work / prep for the real world.
- fragmede 3y ago
  Seems like it would get dark pretty quickly. take taxes out of their paycheck. Give one of their friends an allowance from those taxes, but don't make them do any work for it. don't pay them every two weeks due to "a computer glitch". pay the kids different rates and prohibit them from talking about it with each other. threaten to adopt an immigrant kid who will work faster and harder and eat less food, and can live in the closet under the stairs. make is clear that one of the two kids is replaceable with said immigrant child, so they fight with each other instead of unionizing. if one of them gets injured, don't feed them while they're not doing chores. make the other kids work twice as much but don't pay them anything extra, make it clear they should be glad they can do chores and haven't been replaced yet.
  - throwaway-blaze 3y ago
    This leads me to wonder where exactly you've been working to form the opinions behind this joke :)
    - DANmode 3y ago
      Any Walmart or Dairy Queen in the United States?
vineyardmike 3y ago
I don’t think you can easily move money with an API but if you’re willing to write code to solve a problem, you could use the Plaid API and Google Docs API (or msft word or whatever) to handle the account tracking and graphing.

yoav 3y ago

Just make them fill out a timesheet in google sheets or something. And then their chore “paycheck” is every two weeks. Like simulated work / prep for the real world.

fragmede 3y ago
Seems like it would get dark pretty quickly. take taxes out of their paycheck. Give one of their friends an allowance from those taxes, but don't make them do any work for it. don't pay them every two weeks due to "a computer glitch". pay the kids different rates and prohibit them from talking about it with each other. threaten to adopt an immigrant kid who will work faster and harder and eat less food, and can live in the closet under the stairs. make is clear that one of the two kids is replaceable with said immigrant child, so they fight with each other instead of unionizing. if one of them gets injured, don't feed them while they're not doing chores. make the other kids work twice as much but don't pay them anything extra, make it clear they should be glad they can do chores and haven't been replaced yet.
- throwaway-blaze 3y ago
  This leads me to wonder where exactly you've been working to form the opinions behind this joke :)
  - DANmode 3y ago
    Any Walmart or Dairy Queen in the United States?

vineyardmike 3y ago

I don’t think you can easily move money with an API but if you’re willing to write code to solve a problem, you could use the Plaid API and Google Docs API (or msft word or whatever) to handle the account tracking and graphing.