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Hijacking this comment to complain about fintech apps / saas providers requiring Plaid - please stop. For example, Coinbase requires logging in with Plaid to..
by webo 5mo ago
Hijacking this comment to complain about fintech apps / saas providers requiring Plaid - please stop.
For example, Coinbase requires logging in with Plaid to... setup auto-pay for their credit card statements. No way to just provide account/routing numbers the good ole way.
There's lots of issues with Plaid but one big one is that banks (e.g big ones like BofA) can lock your account due to suspicious login with Plaid.
https://x.com/kanateven/status/1973793740331368841 https://x.com/kanateven/status/1973793740331368841
- measurablefunc 5mo agoThey're a YC company so every other YC company is going to use them, that's how YC companies operate.
- webo 5mo agoPlaid has an option to let the client/provider accept plain account + routing numbers, a lot of apps for whatever purpose don't use it.
- necubi 5mo agoThis isn't at all how YC companies operate (source: I did YC), but also... Plaid is not YC.
- measurablefunc 5mo agoSeems kinda weird then that they're listed in workatastartup.com: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/15283 https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/15283
- andsoitis 5mo agoPlaid is not a YC company. You can just google it to confirm.
- measurablefunc 5mo agoYet they are listed on the site that claims to only have YC companies. Very odd.
- 1123581321 5mo agoI don’t know why they are on there, but YC startups list their batch and year in parentheses on job posts, e.g. (W25). Example: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/88812 https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/88812 The Plaid listing you linked doesn’t have a batch by their name.
- measurablefunc 5mo agoStill kinda weird that a non-YC company gets to have job listings on a site for only YC companies.
- 1123581321 5mo agoI don't know; I'm not involved. Just noticed the UI affordance.
- Rapzid 5mo agoClearly you are not involved lol. The suggestion seems to be that YC is involved in some way; perhaps untraditional.
- FireBeyond 5mo agoFunnily enough, Flock has stopped doing that.
- alexr243 5mo agoPlaid is not a YC company
- measurablefunc 5mo agoThey have job listings in workatastartup.com but maybe any startup can now be listed even if they're not a YC company: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/15283 https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/15283
- lxgr 5mo agoAirbnb requested Plaid access to my entire Chase account and all transactional data to "verify my credit card" a few years ago, and wouldn't budge until I tried Apple Pay, where they apparently weren't able to figure out the underlying issuer and accordingly left me alone. Needless to say that it was my last stay with Airbnb.
- egorfine 5mo agoWhat will you do once all of the accommodation providers start doing this AND they figure out how to see through Apple Pay?