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Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
Top five features of this millennial-focused money management app (designed by @brownthings of Darkroom, recognized by Apple as a top 10 app in 2015): • Feature #1: Track your spending vs target SpendLimit. A new concept designed to allow users to know where they stand financially at any point throughout the month, similar to how Apple Watch or FitBit help … See more
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Jake Gibson@iamjakestream
@chrismessina @brownthings the notifications are pretty great. I have been impressed with the intelligent and non-spammy updates that are lacking in most other finance products
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@iamjakestream @chrismessina @brownthings Thanks for the feedback Jake!
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
Hello Product Hunt, and thanks to @chrismessina for helping us out! We started Empower with the vision of creating the most beautiful and powerful native money management experience. We live in a world where self-driving cars are a reality, but we still can’t properly manage our money from our phones…! We’re a small team of five and it’s early days so we’r… See more
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Edwin Tofslie@tofslie · Co-Founder of builtbybuilt.com
@warrenhogarth @chrismessina Thanks for creating new products like this. I do have a bit of a problem with your legitimacy. I can not find any info on the site about who you are, where you are, why I should trust you with my info. Are you in Russia? US? Who founded this? Why should I trust you handling my info? There is nothing on the site at all. I had to… See more
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@tofslie appreciate the feedback to consider putting our profiles on our website. If you need any more answers in the mean time we are based in San Francisco and are seed funded. You can find out more about the team here: https://www.linkedin.com/company...
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Peter Park@peter_park · Founder & CEO, ConnectHealth
@warrenhogarth - great app! Is this available outside of the US as well?
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
Hi @peter_park, glad you have enjoyed the app! We currently only support US Banks. We would like to add support for more banks in more countries, but that is probably at least 6 months away.
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Manuel@manuelauer · Law student, blogger.
@warrenhogarth Damn, I just want a nice app to track my spendings (don't even need bank support) in Europe.
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@manuelauer I have heard good things about tink. Not sure where in Europe you are but perhaps check them out.
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Rafi Zikavashvili@rafizkv · Co-founder, Pramp
@warrenhogarth beautiful app! Any plans to support a web app?
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@rafizkv thanks! Android is next, then web, so its probably ~6 months away.
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Charley Ma@charleyma · Growth @ Plaid, former R&D @ JPMorgan
Congrats on the launch everyone! What other features do you have on the roadmap that you're thinking about exploring?
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@charleyma As we mentioned, we are planning on building out some sophisticated credit card payment features, but that's about as much as we're going to give away for now 😜
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Kostya Rypta@kostyarypta · Founder of http://onlot.net
So you should each time add your expenses to app? Is there a possibility to connect it to some bank account?
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
Hi @kostyarypta , you can connect a range of bank and credit card accounts as well as loan, investment, and 401(k) accounts. We support over 16,000 U.S. institutions. :)
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Ela Mazurkiewicz@elamazurkiewicz
Great tool! 🙌🏻
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@elamazurkiewicz thanks for the feedback !
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Spencer Muratides@startupspence
Would you mind elaborating on how you mitigate the user's risk of having all of his/her account information in one place?
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
Great question @startupspence ! The security and privacy of your information is of utmost importance to us. That’s why we’ve put in place the same security measures for protecting your account that the banks do, including AES 256-bit SSL end-to-end encryption, multi-factor authentication, Touch ID, and strict access controls. This means all of your financial… See more
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Orien Wu@orienwu · Mixpanel
@samelliottsam Can you speak specifically to how you handle storage and encryption of linked account passwords in particular?
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@orienwu Great question! We never actually store your linked account password. We simply use it to authenticate once with our data providers.
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Deandre Durr☀️@dredurr · Growth Hacker
Very Dope Product🚬🚬
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@dredurr 🙏
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John N. Mandalakas@jnmandal · software developer
Seems like a great concept but without password manager integration or a web app, adding all my accounts is very tedious
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@jnmandal We have worked hard to make the set-up as fast and seamless as possible, and once you are set up you can see everything with just a thumbprint. Regarding password managers we are working on a password manager integration. Which one do you use?
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John N. Mandalakas@jnmandal · software developer
That will definitely help @warrenhogarth. Personally, I'm using 1Password, and I've seen a few apps do some nice deep-linking between it and their password forms
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@jnmandal cheers, will keep you posted
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Jamie Martin@livejamie · Senior UX/UI at Raven Software
@warrenhogarth @jnmandal Lastpass
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Tom Pryor@tom_pryor
@warrenhogarth Dashlane too please
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@tom_pryor 🤙
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Evan Thomas Paul@evanthomaspaul · VP Products, GuideStar
@jnmandal Agreed. Safari password manager integration would be huge for iOS devices.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@evanthomaspaul @jnmandal :)
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Jon Andersen@andersen_jon · Software Engineer, AND CO
Looks really nice so will give it a go for sure! What's your main differentiator from mint? (Expect looking much better)
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@andersen_jon Aww shucks 😊 thanks for that! We have worked really hard to ensure that we have high quality data so that when you come into empower the information you see is correct and so that we can create powerful recommendations that you can trust. The other key difference is we are building features that allow you to take action from within the app, s… See more
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Matt Horton@mattahorton · APM, Capital One Labs
@warrenhogarth @andersen_jon would love to see digit for student loan paydown :D
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
@mattahorton @andersen_jon that is on the near term roadmap!
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@mattahorton definitely on its way 🙌🏽
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Matt Duff@mattcantstop · Integration Engineer, MoneyDesktop
@warrenhogarth @andersen_jon where do you get your data? MX.com, Intuit, Yodlee? EDIT: nevermind, saw that you use Yodlee and Plaid down below. Thanks!
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Ryan Snyder@overeasyplease · Project Manager
Looks great, Android version incoming?
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@overeasyplease We hear you 🙉! Android version is very much in the works!
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John Shin@j_hnshin · Design @goexpedite
Is it possible to capture the same information in two devices? Curious about using it with my partner.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@j_hnshin Great feedback! This is definitely something we've heard a lot from our beta users and it's something that's on our radar. We understand the value of being able to share this sort of information across devices with partners so stay tuned 👍
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Damien Tsnkff@tsnkff · Growth @Nuage
I was about to start working on something similar. Banks' apps suck. Can't wait to see what you guys do.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
You're too right @tsnkff. That's what has inspired us to build Empower! Hope you enjoy using the app. 😃
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Damien Tsnkff@tsnkff · Growth @Nuage
@samelliottsam I wish my banks had APIs. Unfortunately they don't (because they suck), so I can't use the app 🙄.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@tsnkff :(
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John Schenk@johnschenk · Founder at Taffy
Just installed. Very cool product, and nicely differentiated features from the likes of Mint. Well done.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
Music to our ears @john_schenk 🎵. So glad you like it.
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Douglas Evaristo@douglasevaristo · Front End
Why not available to Brazil?? :(
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@douglasevaristo unfortunately we only support US institutions right now 😢 but we're definitely thinking about changing that soon!
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Tweets by Musolé 🇿🇲 🇺🇸 🇦🇴@musolek · Founder, Solé Marketing | #Tech #Travel
Cool. Reminds me of mint but this empower seems to have to a leg up.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
@musolek Glad to hear it. Hope you enjoy using Empower!
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Victor Olaitan@navictoro · Student who loves to code
Is there going to be an Android app?
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
Absolutely @navictoro ! Android version is very much in the works 🍭
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Adelyn@adelynzhou · Entrepreneur and growth marketer
This is super useful! Like the name "SpendLimit", really great to take control of personal finance.
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Sam Elliott@samelliottsam · Dev at Empower
Thank you @adelynzhou! We like the name too 😉
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Richard Burton@ricburton · Designing & implementing iPhone apps.
Congratulations on shipping @warrenhogarth & team! 1Password integration in the sign up flow would be 💯
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Warren Hogarth@warrenhogarth · Co-Founder and CEO of Empower
cheers @ricburton. We are working on it!
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