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Heh, don't blame you. We did fight for and win approval to write a forward to our privacy policy to make it more accessible. Outside of that, we didn't want to innovate in an area …

Still around! Sorry about the bug. We've been deploying all day and made the mistake of pushing something that received new server content before the updated clients themselves had…

yep!

Appreciate it! And just because we're working on this idea doesn't mean you can't too. It all comes down to execution. A little competition is healthy for everyone :)

This ^. The startup costs are way higher with Yodlee and (before they shut off access) Intuit. Their APIs are also not nearly as friendly as Plaid's.

Just looked back at my notes. That first Show HN post sent about 700 unique people to our website, of which about 100 clicked the download button and roughly 40 signed up. That may…

That FAQ is a little out of date—I'll update right now. Once you remove duplicates, we support closer to 8-10k banks through Plaid, and we have two monetization strategies (monetiz…

Agreed. We've reached out to Google a couple of times asking if they can display a more helpful message than "not compatible with an of your devices" when the real reason is "Only …

A couple reasons: 1. Those other platforms didn't really exist when we first launched. Messenger launched their platform about nine months after we started Penny. 2. (The real reas…

Wow, that's awesome to hear! For what it's worth, we don't think the premium experience (Penny+) is a good fit for most of our users. Locking extra complexity behind a premium vers…

Hey HN, we’re the founders of Penny ( https://www.pennyapp.io ), part of YC’s W17 batch. We’re building an easy way for people to keep track of their finances. In a nutshell: downl…

Penny ( https://www.pennyapp.io ) | San Francisco | ONSITE - Hiring for a well-rounded engineer to join our three-person team working in the personal finance space. - You can expec…

That doesn't work all that well on mobile apps, since users first have to download a new app before you can record the referral code. Having a link click persist through that proce…

Great point. Typing emojis on non-mobile devices is a pain right now. Cmd+Ctrl+Space on Macs brings up an emoji-picker, but I doubt many people know that. I guess this should be sc…

At this point, emoji support is almost ubiquitous (at least in the US). I'd imagine that within the next couple of years emoji support will be within a rounding error of 100%.

You'd obviously want to limit the set of available emoji to avoid any ambiguities but assuming you do—is there anything stopping their use in frequent flier numbers, passwords, etc…