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by mbm 6mo ago
That's actually one of the best things about the current moment -- it's getting easier and easier to do things yourself, and there's less and less reason to use someone else's tool. It's sort of raising the bar for
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by mbm 6mo ago
Give GPT in Codex a try! I agree, Claude still seems quite prone to hallucinations, especially with incomplete or limited datasets.
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by mbm 6mo ago
This. It's really cool to weave other data sources into your data. I recently needed to set up some calendar events on certain dividend days, but of course, didn't know what those dividend dates actually were. So we used the MCP c
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by mbm 6mo ago
Routines are so fun to work with. It's almost too easy to spin a new one up. A little worried about when I get past the 15 routines limit, though. Then it goes into "extra usage" land.
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by mbm 6mo ago
Actually, it's deterministic -- our product doesn't move money, so when the user gives us access through Plaid, we're only getting read-level permissions. We actually don't even get full account numbers. A company workin
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by mbm 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing your story!
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by mbm 6mo ago
Hear you 100%. It felt very uncomfortable for me the first time I used it, as well. The problem is that there sort of isn't a better way right now in the US, and for now, Plaid or a Plaid-like competitor is the safest way. Eventually,
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by mbm 6mo ago
It's read only, we can't move money. And I totally hear you -- we had this happen in our family as well, and it was really sad. Security is a massive priority for us, but it's always going to be a cost-benefit analysis for ea
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by mbm 6mo ago
Indeed. Always have to be thinking about prompt injection when it comes to these tools.
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by mbm 6mo ago
Awesome feedback. Agree 100% with this. I guess a couple comments: - We have a built-in CSV export tool in beta right now for cash transactions, and plan to add this for other datasets as well. You should be able to download your data when
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by mbm 6mo ago
Could you share more about how it works?
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by mbm 6mo ago
Did it find any stragglers?
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by mbm 6mo ago
Hi! Thanks for sharing. I actually built it for myself initially, and my wife. So I just built what we needed/wanted. There will be a huge variety of products in this space and ours is just one take on the problem. I love seeing anythi
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by mbm 6mo ago
It must be very very new, since we weren't offered it a couple months ago!
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by mbm 6mo ago
That's so cool! Are you planning to open source any of this? Would love to see how you set everything up, or - maybe most interested in - some of your prompts.
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by mbm 6mo ago
Sounds awesome! Would love to. Just launched our app to Plaid production this week.
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by mbm 6mo ago
Nice! What are your main use-cases?
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by mbm 6mo ago
Hi all, Matt here - founder. Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for stopping by!
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by mbm 6mo ago
Correct, sales encourages you to sign their minimum contract, which basically gets you better support and an account manager. Pay as you go is an option, but Plaid indicated you basically wouldn't have any guaranteed support SLA post-l
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by mbm 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing! Would be curious to learn more.
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by mbm 6mo ago
It's pretty straightforward! There's a widget in the app that you auth through, and then you give consent for the data pull through Plaid. This authorizes the connection, and then webhooks come in going forward as data changes. Fo
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by mbm 6mo ago
I think it's rather hard because of their security & contractual requirements -- we had to sign a contract with them, go through security review, and so on.
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by mbm 6mo ago
Yup! Actually starting to experiment with that now. Just this morning, we stood up a demo email agent (basically, email back and forth with Claude with our MCP server connected, providing the data) and it's strangely comforting to chat
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Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?(driggsby.com)
83 points by mbm 6mo ago|138 comments
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Show HN: Driggsby – securely chat with your finances(driggsby.com)
2 points by mbm 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mbm 8mo ago
Works pretty well as a general-purpose computer. The speed is really enjoyable. Could replace some of my Claude Code use actually. For coding, set to xhigh and use it for personal tools or small projects. Example repo that Codex with spark
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by mbm 8mo ago
What sort of files do you generally symlink in?
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by mbm 8mo ago
This might be strangely effective.
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by mbm 9mo ago
Codex is a bit better bug-wise but less enjoyable to use than CC. The larger context window and superiority of GPT 5.2 to Opus makes it mostly worth it to switch.
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by mbm 9mo ago
Hmm, so even just doing a simple ls -la on the home dir is occasionally taking ~10s. Other times, it's instant (I'm on a stable 1 Gbps connection). Have been experiencing intermittent connection drops as well.

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