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The amount in the bank account is very, very different than the budget. A startup should not be tracking its money on such a simple basis. Without categories (or envelopes) the amount of cash is pretty meaningless without knowing if is clear to spend.
Site feedback: the video at the top of your landing page only shows the output of the bot for 4-5 seconds. Let it linger a bit longer so I can see what you're offering.
Would this be a useful app without Slack?
What am I missing?
We made a Slackbot for startups to tell them some simple financial metrics (how much is in their bank account, and what their latest transactions in those accounts are). We're connecting to company accounts through Plaid (plaid.com) and sending them a financial 'digest' through Slack/email each morning. As consumers we've been using a couple apps like Digit (digit.co) to track our personal finances but couldn't find…
I'm a founder and the guy in charge of the $$$. This sentence doesn't resonate for me: "Logging into our company bank accounts to keep track of transactions has been pretty painful (online business banking UI is really hard to navigate) so hopefully this can make the process easier." If you've already tested your target customer segment and found that they find this to be "pretty painful", then you can conclude that…
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Kinda hard to trust company accounts with an external service like this. Is there a way to just give you a downloaded CSV or something for this? If not – how are you managing security?
We're using Plaid to connect to accounts so we're not storing any credentials ourselves. For security when we pull the info to give to people in the digest each morning we're not persisting it anywhere. Interesting point about the CSV (giving us information without bank access); a problem with that though is it defeats the 'push' based idea of giving people information without them having to do any work. Atleast on t…
This is potentially enormously sensitive data that'd be very valuable to competitors etc. I'd want to see a much more extensive privacy policy than the current state of https://www.swayfinance.com/privacy , particularly as it's a free service in need of an eventual business model.
For anyone who deals with this data (analytics, financial, etc.) for their company, particularly if it isn't of the "two guys in a garage with no real revenue" variety, we take data super seriously. I could lose my job (or worse, get sued) if I was negligent in handing out sensitive company data in a way that put the company at risk (let alone actually caused monetary damage to the business).
A clear privacy policy, details on the team and information about where the HQ is located (so I can make sure they are in my legal jurisdiction should it ever come to that) are the absolute minimum IMHO.
This is potentially enormously sensitive data that'd be very valuable to competitors etc. I'd want to see a much more extensive privacy policy than the current state of https://www.swayfinance.com/privacy , particularly as it's a free service in need of an eventual business model.
This is potentially enormously sensitive data that'd be very valuable to competitors etc. I'd want to see a much more extensive privacy policy than the current state of https://www.swayfinance.com/privacy , particularly as it's a free service in need of an eventual business model.
I'd add that this is all too common with data/analytics startups I've seen. I've seen instances where the first thing they asked you to do is link your Google Analytics account. No privacy/data security policy worth speaking of, no info on the team, nothing. For anyone who deals with this data (analytics, financial, etc.) for their company, particularly if it isn't of the "two guys in a garage with no real revenue" v…