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by tomasien 12y ago
Bank security for online banking is in a sad state, but (kind of like credit cards) they have ENOUGH protocols in place to stop virtually all fraud. They do this by being ultra aggressive though - they just CLOSE bank accounts that have wei
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by tomasien 12y ago
This just solved a huge problem I've been struggling with. This is beautiful - I don't actually want to know the information I've been trying to access, but it will make the experience better for the user. I now realize I don
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by tomasien 12y ago
Each case is different, and I (personally) do not see a pattern emerging. In this instance, all signs point to this being the "last straw". In the case of Eich, it was the unique relationship that Mozilla has with it's commun
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by tomasien 12y ago
That's not what Vint appears to be to me. There's curation. Maybe there isn't but it appears that there is.
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by tomasien 12y ago
You should also learn to code
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by tomasien 12y ago
This tweet from a friend I assumed hated YouTube and loved Twitch sums up why this might actually be a home run https://twitter.com/macpheed/status/468237136882597888
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by tomasien 12y ago
I agree actually. I hate it when people compare things to Snapchat like Snapchat is silly (it's not) but Twitch could be HUGE. Like huge huge huge.
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by tomasien 12y ago
Congrats to Justin and everyone involved in Twitch! As a side note: most of my friends are LoL fans, and I seriously believe professional gaming will be one of the major professional sports in the next few years, perhaps on the level of Hoc
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by tomasien 12y ago
Related material: Cindy Gallop's struggle to get ANYTHING for MakeLoveNotPorn.com - which has a fantastic, social mission. She can't even get a bank. We've been working our banking partners to see if we can find a fit, but no
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by tomasien 12y ago
Great idea!
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by tomasien 12y ago
True
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by tomasien 12y ago
SSL is fixed on https://thesimpledifference.com - don't have htaccess redirecting although I put the rule in. But ssl is up!
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by tomasien 12y ago
Anybody who made a donation or started a donation on thesimpledifference and has feedback about UX (or otherwise) issues they had and could email me at tommy at knoxpayments dot com I would just love to hear from you so much you have no ide
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by tomasien 12y ago
It doesn't. Thank you for pointing that out. Mint did a lot of the work for us here to be honest, they made it really easy to get this stuff out of the way.
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by tomasien 12y ago
OHHHH that's messed up. Wow! That's a really weird thing to do, but the fact that it's popular anyway really says a lot. Still though - wow.
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by tomasien 12y ago
We initiate the transfer as well. It doesn't violate any of the banks we support's TOS. We're also not web scraping.
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by tomasien 12y ago
Pretty close! We're not scraping anything which I'll clarify more for the connotation that this is web scraping - it's not.
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by tomasien 12y ago
No - so we risk rate for recurring payments and get a bunch of info from online banking that helps us determine how large of a recurring payment and at what interval we can allow. We've never been wrong, but we will be someday I'm
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by tomasien 12y ago
Agreed on the SSL bit - we ask all our businesses to use it but we didn't put it on our test site. That's embarrassing I'm putting it up now. And yes, we serve the 30 banks that constitute 60% of banking volume in the US, and
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by tomasien 12y ago
If you find this interesting you may find the work Knox is doing pretty cool - we're able to verify funds before we make payments (so there no NSFs), get and verify account numbers without asking for the user to tell us them, and verif
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by tomasien 12y ago
Assuming you want what you've built to eventually be successful, you need to put aside that and all related fears immediately.
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by tomasien 12y ago
Dwolla isn't ideal - but it's a big and growing company that's built 100% on a foundation of "try to get people to pay with Dwolla even though it's hard just to save the 3%". Things that save that 3% and can se
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by tomasien 12y ago
That's really, really sad if it's true.
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by tomasien 12y ago
If you think the 3% in CC fees is something felt by a small number of businesses you're so, so very wrong. Dwolla is actually doing quite well despite the fact that it's insanely hard to pay with Dwolla if you don't have an a
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by tomasien 12y ago
I don't think this is true at all. Nothing about my experience suggests this is the case. There's a very specific stage of startup that usually has little use for Jr. Devs - growing from seed to A round requires onboarding experts
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by tomasien 12y ago
Good advice! I still code at night, picking up some visible UX stuff that wouldn't make it on the road map otherwise. That way, we never have a week where it doesn't APPEAR that the product has gotten better just because whatever
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by tomasien 12y ago
I'm about to stop programming at my company because I have too much to manage as a founder. It makes me really sad and also pretty scared. Anyone else experience this?
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by tomasien 12y ago
Are you serious? That's amazing if you are.
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by tomasien 12y ago
I have 2 questions: 1. Why would anyone at S/C consider what he's doing slimy? He's not exploiting anybody, he's just shorting the stock and making the exploit known. If you think shorting stocks is slimy that's one
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by tomasien 12y ago
How are you taking payments? Checks?

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