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Building Machine. London, UK

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    Comment #11068862

    Just a quick note of gushing praise, OfficeSnapshots is one of my favourite sites, I've been a reader from being a teen to a twenty-something, I never expected the creator to show …

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    Ask HN: What should I do in San Francisco?

    Morning HN! I had a YC interview for a project I've been working on. Didn't get selected, unfortunately, but what can you do? Anyway, I have about a week to kill until my flight on…

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    Comment #6651528

    I'd love metadata to be added to more kinds of purchases, by debit card for example, beyond just the name of the retailer - it'd create such a wealth of valuable data that one coul…

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    Comment #6503745

    Hi there! Just to let you know, I introduced the 'protect me from myself' feature you suggested today, there's a blog post about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65037…

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    Comment #6489937

    That and the fact that we can offer the sale up to different suppliers, giving them the change to win a sale from another supplier

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    Comment #6489122

    Very good question: Banks generally don't award much interest for small, short savings, they're really geared towards saving for cars and houses, not small goals. We, on the other …

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    Comment #6489052

    We're aggressively pursuing FCA regulation in the UK since we're pretty compliant with their policies already. Suffice it to say, we're doing everything we can, we really don't wan…

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    Comment #6489042

    We're looking into a whole bunch of ways to stop charging fees as soon as we can - it was kind of the lazy way out for the short term. We're looking into referral fees, as you sugg…

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    Comment #6489005

    Right now, yes I'm afraid! But never fear, we're rolling out to the US and other markets as fast as we possibly can

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    Comment #6488995

    Right now, no. I know that sucks, but we're looking into ways to leverage savings to earn more interest than a bank would typically give you for a small, short-term goal. Part of t…

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    Comment #6488982

    Good point, I went into building it with total ease of use in mind, maybe I should build a 'protect me from myself' feature into the settings :P

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    Comment #6488976

    Hmm, I'll take a look into that, it may just be the webfont I'm using rendering strangely. Perhaps it's time I sign up for TypeKit

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    Comment #6488840

    Feedback and suggestions would be massively appreciated by the way!

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    Comment #6292021

    Tangential question: Dailybooth used to do pretty much what Selfie.im does now, but failed and shut down a couple of years back - Do you think Dailybooth would be more successful i…

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