ericwebb

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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Hey HN, I'm Eric. I wanted programmatic access to my own bank transactions but every time I tried, the friction got the best of me. CSVs from five banks in five formats, or Plaid, which is good but built for companies (business entity,
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Show HN: I built an API for my own bank account(shim.finance)
1 points by ericwebb 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
As you mentioned, the format of these documents can be wildly different between countries. Curious, do you normalize them to some sort of intermediate representation before running your lending algorithms? How long does it take to spin up a
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Yeah, I’ve redirected manually to some success but nothing hook based yet. I need to put some plumbing together to try these ideas out.
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Nice. I've been thinking about something tangential: using the same hook mechanism to guide the agent toward better tools, not just block bad ones. Claude Code sometimes issues Bash commands for things it could easily do with builtin t
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
I missed that important detail :) thanks
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
I 100% agree that we need tools to understand and audit these workflows for opportunities. Nice work. TBH, I am very hesitant to upload my CC logs to a third-party service.
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Remember when you'd get a letter in the mail, "you identity has been compromised, here is a subscription to an identity monitoring service." The system is broken. We shouldn't be so vulnerable because of foundational inf
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
If I have to physically still go to the bank, it really hasn't disrupted much. The iPhone created an opportunity... the banks investing around the technology is the disruption. ATM itself couldn't unlock as much which I suppose is
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Nice work. I love getting more data accessible via API. What are the sharp edges if someone wanted to do this themselves? I assume there are official sources for this data but it's not trivial to "throw my agent at it".
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Totally makes sense. Eventually being confronted with the measurement is its own motivator. Some sort of “future self” awareness or something.
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
Bravo. This is my dream and also my nightmare. I was super into the quantified self movement a while back, before Apple Watch, writing Withings Scale API wrappers in Ruby and Fitbit days. Every time I try to seriously track metrics of my li
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by ericwebb 7mo ago
oh man... I am not sure I am ready to trust CC at that level. Though, this year I did vibe an expense tracker and heavily used CC to look at and categorize entries and apply appropriate Schedule C categories to my business expenses. It migh
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by ericwebb 8mo ago
I am also a fortunate owner of a 100+ year old home. Why is the lath and plaster so susceptible to cracking?! That is my nemesis. I haven’t tried to hang a TV though yet.
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by ericwebb 3y ago
Why does a 1 hour cycle wash better than a two hour cycle? This article is pretty light on details.