Ask HN: Would you like your banking data in real time via IPython / RStudio?

2 points by bh13731 10 years ago | 2 comments

Hey,

We're building an intelligent financial assistant (meetcleo.com) at a startup incubator here in London (joinef.com). We were thinking of building out a feature where you could run your own Python / R code in the browser to analyse your transaction data.

The process would look like the following;

1. Connect your account(s) - we use Saltedge.com to pull the data.

2. You'd get a browser IPython / RStudio Server instance with your data loaded into a dataframe (we pull new data once a day)

3. You can run your analysis / schedule jobs / save scripts, etc.

Let me know if you're interested and we'll build it! We build really fast!

duked 10 years ago |

I personally don't see it as a value add and therefore wouldn't pay for it.

First I don't analyze my finances that often just looking once a month for potential fraudulent transactions (In the US it's more frequent than when I lived in europe).

Second if I would really care most banks export in CSV format which makes it easy to process with panda [1]. My gut feeling is that's what most tech savvy users would do, and they are tech savvy if they can write Python or R.

I'm probably not your typical user but I hope that helps.

[1] http://pandas.pydata.org/

bh13731 10 years ago |

Also, would you potentially pay for this feature? (small monthly subscription)