Charlie Irish

Root - Programmable bank account for software developers

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Nicolas Le Roux
"Powered by The Standard Bank of South Africa" = interesting!
Franz Junge
Great idea, but, well, security ...
Eric Wilson
Rad. I've always wanted the ability to create virtual cards for everything online to mitigate fraud or even just to maintain control... But other services that offer this are all kind of sketchy. Excited to hear about other creative use cases that developers enable.
Louw Hopley
@ecwilson I've personally been using a separate virtual card for every online merchant, and it surely makes buying stuff at sketchy sites a lot more comfortable. Create a new card, limit it to the amount you're about to check out, and boom! :)
Jordan Humphreys
The underlying bank is not FDIC insured. Bummer.
Louw Hopley
@spaceprovided Hi Jordan, the underlying bank is a South African bank :) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St...)
Jan
Very cool and very useful for products that move money using wire transfers or ACH. I know Silicon Valley Bank has this on the roadmap and Vitesse and Bunq already offer it, but good to see an API-first player in this space. Looking forward to see updates!
Kilim Choi
I thought product hunt didn't allow landing pages from being hunted. This doesn't seem fair to a lot of makers who hunted their landing pages in the past.
Danny Florian
interesting...wonder if this would work well for a company account
Philip Joubert
@dnyflorian Right now we're building the product for individuals, but we already use Root internally to run our company. It's super useful having real-time categorization of transactions and API access to do electronic transfers.
Matthew Boogaard
So many good 'tag line' puns for this if you bring this to Australia! (Note: Australian slang http://www.urbandictionary.com/d...)
Areeb
World needs this for sure.
Christopher Brown
Woah! Coolest idea I've seen for a while. Best of luck, and waiting to see when/how/if you make it to the NA market
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