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by jhuckestein 11y ago
I work at Mondo. We will be a member of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and all customer deposits will be insured up to £75k per person. During our current alpha test (and before we have a banking license), your funds are
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
DuckDuckGo uses Google search results
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How many Croatian Kuna does £1 buy you?(getmondo.co.uk)
1 points by jhuckestein 11y ago|0 comments
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Why are foreign card payments such a mess?(getmondo.co.uk)
3 points by jhuckestein 11y ago|0 comments
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The 3 Second Sandwich: How do card networks work?(getmondo.co.uk)
46 points by jhuckestein 11y ago|27 comments
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Banking APIs, or, how fraudulent are you?(stephenwhitworth.com)
3 points by jhuckestein 11y ago|0 comments
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
I've responded to the same question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623845
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
I take your point that you wouldn't want to open source everything, especially not the few critically secure bits of your infrastructure. That said, money transfers take a couple of days because most interbank clearing houses were mode
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
I work at Mondo. People's savings are generally insured in banks. Once we're a bank, customer funds up to £75k per account will be insured via FSCS. In the meantime, the customer balances held on our prepaid debit card sit ringfen
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Hi DomBlack, I work at Mondo. The cards we're issuing now are prepaid debit cards backed by another firm's license (Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd). We're aiming to have a full banking license and issue our own cards by the end
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Hi redbeard0x0a, fully agree! We do try to open source as much as possible. We have open-sourced large parts of our stack already: https://github.com/mondough/
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Hi, I work at Mondo. We need to work through a bunch of KYC and AML issues around EU-wide signup, but it's definitely high on our priority list. That said, our accounts will initially be GBP only, so we'd hold your balance in poun
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Mondo bank beta API docs(getmondo.co.uk)
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Hey, I work at at Mondo. We're building a startup retail bank with an API for developers. You can find our API documentation here: https://getmondo.co.uk/docs The APIs will be publicly available to developers and accou
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Yep, a friend of mine is building a product that exposes the private APIs that banking apps use in a developer-friendly way: http://teller.io/ That said, using your account data in that way with third parties is often again
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
You can still derive some information from this kind of analysis. We can conclude that "this idea sounds stupid" or "this is a first-time founder" are not good reasons to dismiss an investment opportunity. In other word
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
I think your last sentence is absolutely right. The author works on a team whose responsibility is to make programming easier for everyone in the world. That's a luxury most startups don't have.
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
The way I read it, the advice is this: Allow and encourage your people to build tools to solve their own problems and if the projects are good, teams will form around them. This answers the question from a management perspective. Facebook h
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Thanks for the report. We're using a service called Mailchimp (hence the monkey) for mailing list management and their subscription API seems to fail in about 2% of cases. Would love to hear more details if you can reproduce the issue.
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Good question. I recently spend a few hours re-reading Simple's old blog and it was eerie how similar their vision, ideas and energy were! The main difference is that Simple didn't have a banking license and didn't write the
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by jhuckestein 11y ago
Mondo CTO here. Good question, thanks. It's "full stack" in the banking industry sense, not the "full stack web developer" sense. Most challenger banks don't pursue a banking license and have to work with an ex
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Simple Issues Mondo Cease and Desist Over Safe-To-Spend Trademark(techcrunch.com)
27 points by jhuckestein 11y ago|6 comments
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
I suspect you won't get much of an audience if you don't make it clear how much these jobs will pay. Reading some of the posted jobs, I can't tell if these are actual engineering jobs or $20/hr variety.
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
I love how this year's event illustrated that you don't have to be an asshole or a sociopath to be successful. All the speakers sounded like genuinely nice and wonderful people. Some of entrepreneurship's biggest successful o
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
Does anyone know if the new system supports the custom audience feature (targeting specific phone numbers or email addresses)?
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
Stripe is so popular with developers because they are laser-focused on providing an excellent experience for the developers. This includes personally responding to every single HN post about Stripe I've ever seen.
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
This is excellent news. Two weeks ago I looked into flynn and the various repos had very little activity compared to deis so I went with that for now. Edit: I posted this just FYI. I thought it'd be useful to know. Perhaps this is a co
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
FWIW, I have witnessed a few projects that went terribly wrong (usually, because I was called in to salvage the project). From sitting in on some calls, it became clear that a large source of issues were misunderstandings between the client
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Ask HN: When and how to outsource software development?
1 points by jhuckestein 12y ago|1 comments
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by jhuckestein 12y ago
FWIW, I'd remove GWT from consideration. I heard that it's shortlisted for end-of-life at Google because it's a hassle to work with. Anecdotally, I agree with that. I once built a product on GWT because it impressed me so muc

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