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hey, i work at monzo we're currently making money from interest charged on loans that we make to our customers, from interest that the central bank pays us on our deposits, as well…

Hey, thanks for flagging. I will look into that. The number is definitely meant to be staffed at all times

Massive congrats to the team - what a great and well deserved outcome :)

I have been reading HN regularly for 10 years. It has taught me everything I needed to know to get started. I applied to YC 4 times, got rejected 3 times, crashed one startup and u…

I work at Monzo. We've posted an update on the situation on our blog: https://monzo.com/blog/2017/03/05/outage/

CTO at Monzo here. We are really sorry about that. One of the things we have learned from this incident is to proactively reach out to all customers as early as possible, even if i…

The thing is, the user experience of Uber, Lyft et al is strictly better than public transport. Some would even say it is 10x better (in the From Zero to One sense). It picks you u…

Monzo | Backend, Web or Android Engineer | London | VISA, REMOTE, INTERNS https://monzo.com At Monzo we aim to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to he…

Monzo | London | REMOTE, INTERNS and VISA all welcome We are building a bank from scratch using modern technologies. Our product is a mobile first bank account for retail customers…

All banks in the EU will have to offer APIs in 2017 because of PSD2: http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2015/january/key-features... The alternative to open APIs is that third part…

I work at Monzo. I agree that using microservices and kubernetes is not what allows us to provide a good user experience. We could provide the same user experience if we had built …

I wonder if OpenAI could define and build against a robot API that hardware robots would implement in different ways. That way OpenAI could focus on the software and various other …

What does replacing the auth page gain the attacker? At worst the user enters their email address into a phishing page. The important thing is that there isn't a password :)

The devil you know I suppose ;) IIRC we didn't go too far down the client cert route because we're behind CloudFlare and we like it that way. Something to revisit in the future.

As much as I love Stevie, teller.io and this demo: Why not both? OAuth 2 is not "bad" in general, you just need to consider the implications of using it. If you have an API that al…