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simonpurdon10

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simonpurdon10··on Crowdsourced Travel Tips
A fun side project after a recent trip. Just launched today on PH.
simonpurdon10··on Ask HN: Find developers to work on API back-engineering
The second question is more aligned to what we're doing. We currently interface with banks through a scraper. It's inefficient, slow and at risk of breaking when the banks change their interface.

To be clear - we provide this interface with the banks as a service to other companies who want to use the consumer's data inside the bank account (with their consent of course). A good example is a loan affordability calculation. Instead of asking a user to upload a bank statement, we provide the interface with their online banking profile which allows them to extract raw transaction data more quickly. We then send that data to the company is offering the loan so that they can make an affordability decision.

In our country there are other companies who do the RE method. I am not aware there is another way, other than scraping and that because our banks don't offer external API's.

simonpurdon10··on Ask HN: Find developers to work on API back-engineering
Thank you!
simonpurdon10··on Ask HN: Find developers to work on API back-engineering
Thanks, that is super helpful.

There are other products that have done exactly what I described above. They have instant EFT solutions etc. So I'm almost certain there are developers who can do it locally. But that helps.

simonpurdon10··on Indoor Plants: A $1.7B Industry. Here's how I'd start a D2C business
Yeah, you're absolutely right. That's one of the reasons buying seeds (imo) is more fulfilling than buying a plant.
simonpurdon10··on Ask HN: How do you develop internal motivation?
You just gotta find something you love. If you're passionate about what you're studying, you'll look forward to doing it.

Internal motivation basically = being passionate about something.

Everyone's passionate about something.