Hacker News Reader

There's yet another thing that's needed industry wide. Oauth or similar concept with read only access to a data api.

We used to with something like quicken, but most banks half ass it.

I really think the state of how bad consumer bank integration tech is has led to this reality of login and scrape that you have with yodlee & co.

plaid.com

And Yodlee. Quovo. Tink. Finicity. A zillion others. This is where modern banking data is moving, for better or worse. I think it's better, but the world is still on it's first steps in this "more open" financial data linking space.

plaid asks for your online banking password.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com