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by calderarrow 4y ago
That could work! Are there any specific integrations you'd want to see which we could prioritize?
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by calderarrow 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! To be fair, we're definitely not capturing a sizeable portion of the banks/credit unions that are actually "good". We prioritized the larger banks, but we definitely intend to capture every bank&
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by calderarrow 4y ago
Thank you! That’s a particularly good rate, so we’ll prioritize those this week
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by calderarrow 4y ago
I actually never heard of them until we started working on this project. I was surprised to see their rates of like 6%. It’s only on the first $1000 or something, so it seems like a promotion to get them listed on those “top 20 bank” listic
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by calderarrow 4y ago
I think you’re right that below a certain threshold, moving money between accounts just isn’t worth it. But from our research, it looks like people can actually stand to gain 100x on their deposit accounts, and I think that’s more compellin
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by calderarrow 4y ago
Hey HN! I’m the main developer of bankrank.io, but I’m part of a passionate team of financial-techies. We were inspired by credit card churning, which is when people cycle through credit cards to optimize their rewards [0]. We wanted to app
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Show HN: Bankrank.io – Search hundreds of bank accounts to find the best rates(bankrank.io)
25 points by calderarrow 4y ago|18 comments
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by calderarrow 4y ago
> What are tips for getting in contact with the right people and enticing them? A: Demonstrating a (1) solution to a (2) problem that (3) users will pay for. Katzgrau's response outlines exactly how to solve those 3 requirements. T
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by calderarrow 5y ago
I'm a CPA and have undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting. To be completely honest, the bulk of financial accounting is not that thrilling. The bulk of the profession is spent keeping up with the regulations for tracing numbe
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Ask HN: Would an ad-free internet be better?
10 points by calderarrow 5y ago|10 comments
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by calderarrow 5y ago
Senators too! We must end finstas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGt1Ukg7q4Y
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by calderarrow 5y ago
1. Get on a consistent sleep schedule. Consistent both in terms of the total number of hours and the window of time when you sleep. Consistency increases the quality of sleep, on average. Maintaining the schedule on weekends is difficult, b
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by calderarrow 5y ago
I am always in favor of programs which make education more accessible and straightforward. I've never used your platform, but it seems like it's a move in that direction. I know that YC has also funded Lambda School, which offers
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by calderarrow 5y ago
This is my absolute favorite essay of all time. I actually have it set to my default tab whenever I open a web browser, because I try to make sure I read it as often as I can. > To complaints of a job poorly done, one often hears the exc
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by calderarrow 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! Few questions: 1. Do you think there's an opportunity for you to obtain 3rd-party insurance on deposits, as a sort of middle ground between uninsured deposits and FDIC? 2. How/why did you choose to partner
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by calderarrow 5y ago
Somewhat of a personal tangent, but I exclusively use 1 screen, and rarely split windows or have more than 1 application open when working. When I need to bounce between code/browser, documentation/code, or email/HN, I use th
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by calderarrow 5y ago
I think most people who would be considering bootcamps are comparing it to a traditional 4-year college curriculum -- at least I did. I enrolled in the full-time web program a few years back and this was the back-of-the-napkin math I used t
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by calderarrow 5y ago
ufincs looks very cool! During my December holiday, I was thinking of making a web-based platform that had a more modern UI than GNUcash, and it looks like you built it already! Just curious, what's your tech stack, how long have you b
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by calderarrow 5y ago
This is a pretty good introduction into the nuance of COGS, but I find that it really isn't as useful of a valuation metric unless the company primarily sells inventory of some sort. MoviePass is an interesting example because it is so
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by calderarrow 6y ago
If somehow the IRS found out that you and your buddies were doing this elaborate stealing-to-borrow plan, they could slap down tax evasion charges on you since that's definitely breaking the spirit of the law. But that's a pretty
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by calderarrow 6y ago
I love tax law, honest to goodness, and the US's tax code is so fascinating. Regardless of the political/economic reasons why a tax law exists, so many of the rules are so oddly specific that upon reading them I find myself smilin
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by calderarrow 6y ago
Vercel. Sign in with Github, push and it's deployed. Probably the best Developer Experience I've ever had.
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by calderarrow 6y ago
CPA here. The short answer is theoretically, yes, but in practice, it's not always practical to have transparent financial reporting. For context, financial reporting is a tradeoff between cost and effectiveness. Whenever you're r
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Ask HN: Personal Finance Questions
1 points by calderarrow 6y ago|0 comments
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by calderarrow 6y ago
I think this quote really hits the nail on the head and confirms what a lot of people may have intuitively known about the value of cloud providers: But once certain startups turn into big companies with hundreds of millions of users, w
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by calderarrow 6y ago
Location: Northern Virginia / Washington, D.C. Remote: I'm open to remote and in-person work Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Typescript, React, Redux, Node Résumé/CV: https://resume.creddle.io/resume&#x
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by calderarrow 6y ago
Desired Role: Frontend Developer Location: Washington, DC / Northern VA Remote: Yes (or in person) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Typescript, React, Redux, Jest, NodeJS, AWS (Certified Associate Developer), Relational DBs(Postg
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Talking Tech with Mark Zuckerberg and Marques Brownlee [video](youtube.com)
2 points by calderarrow 6y ago|0 comments
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by calderarrow 6y ago
Try out the selenium IDE.[0] It's a browser extension which allows you to record your movements/actions in the browser, and then export a scaffold of the code to replicate the interactions. It could serve as a decent start point [
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by calderarrow 6y ago
As a student, I really started to grokk accounting when I started thinking of double-entry accounting as the business application of Newton's law "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Whenever a change

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