Ask HN: Please take these ideas and run with them

4 points by thrwawy20160421 9 years ago | 6 comments

I want a service that can do the following: Integrate with my credit card ( ala Mint.com ) and do things like this:

For each charge on the statement, geo-locate the business and put it on the map.

For a given time period, put all those charges and locations on a map. Add some cool arrows to show the sequence, and if you threw in the approximate miles per hour that would be awesome too.

Finally, I also want to be able to view my charges on a calendar ( ala Google Calendar )

nameless912 9 years ago |

I see one major problem: central payment processors.

On my statement, the charge from, e.g. my local grocery store doesn't appear as from a particular store, it seems to come from some central corporate office. You'll also see this problem with things bought online, at certain big box stores or kiosks, and airlines/travel.

bbcbasic 9 years ago |

Another cool feature for budgeting to add: You take a picture of a receipt. It ocr's it and then subdivides the expense. So $100 on "groceries" gets properly divided down.

A device where you chuck in the screwed up receipt and it unfolds it and scans it for your, marries it up to the CC and analyses would be very cool :-)

icebraining 9 years ago |

How much would you be willing to pay for that?

bbcbasic 9 years ago | |

Personally, such a feature would be a selling point of a budgeting or accounting software package, and may make me pay more for it. I wouldn't pay much for this feature on it's own though.

jmaccabee 9 years ago |

What's the pain point being solved here?

partisan 9 years ago | |

Expense reports, I am guessing. The charges made plus mileage on the car.