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OK, I got what you're saying now, thanks! I got my wires crossed; I thought Newton's method was something else, but I was actually already implementing that. I think it's a clever …

That would've been fun too as a different challenge (I wrote the blog post). My main hesitation was that doing so might prevent me from using the built-in VM/hardware emulators the…

Wow, that is indeed way cooler than what I knew! Thanks a lot for sharing (I wrote the blog post). As for square roots, the reason why you can't use the underlying architecture is …

We built everything by hand. Cordova is our glue to the native side, but React is what really makes the chat stuff tick. As for the Ruby/JSON stuff, that was also built by hand (ac…

100% agreed. Yet another benefit of a single endpoint is that we rarely have to worry about backwards compatibility. It's a huge tax on engineering time to support those few users …

Yup, Penny tries to focus on your discretionary spending since that's where you have the most agency. She tells you both your non-bills spending (assuming bills are mandatory) and …

Yup, though our emphasis is more on making finances as relatable and friendly as possible. The chat interface isn't just a skin on top of existing data (which some other chat inter…

Privacy and security are really big priorities for us, so we do our best to address those concerns whenever we can. As far as personal info is concerned, we store the minimum possi…

Hey, co-founder here: I'll be the first to say that the chat interface isn't for everyone. If you'd prefer to get the facts with minimal extra stuff, Penny might not be for you. Wh…

Great point about two-way vs one-way. We find that it's still valuable for one-way communication because our main goal is to make finances relatable and easy to understand, and a c…

By the way, this is US only. We only link to US banks, so it wouldn't be very useful to download the app in a different region. Our team is pretty small, so international expansion…

Sorry about that! Since we only link to US banks, we're only available in the US. Hopefully international expansion will be a thing, but we're a little too small for that at this p…

Other co-founder here: Since we use Cordova, the entire app is a website. So when you open up the app, it launches a webview pointed to a website that we deploy to like any other w…

Hey, I'm a co-founder of Penny: Our biggest differentiators: more focus on automation and friendliness. The major pain point we discovered is that average people find finances inti…

I was just thinking about this yesterday! I went with https://app.simplenote.com instead. Your app probably won't be compelling until you add more specific features that beat a gen…

I originally built this for personal use while bored at a previous company, but ended up reviving it for external use over the past couple days. Hope you like it!