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Steven Ritchie@staticsteven · Product Strategy @ Versett
Two things: 1) Why no Canada?? :( 2) Why the name Penny? I swear ever PF app in the past 6 months has been named Penny. Seriously, is this the least creative space there is?
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Jack Smith@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@staticsteven got a link to the other ones named Penny? (I'm guessing it could be a play on MoneyPenny from James Bond, but that's a guess)
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Alex Quach@imalexquach · pennyapp.io
@staticsteven We're currently integrated with a few top US banks and are rolling out to more soon, but until we get more bank coverage you probably wouldn't find the app very useful. If you don't mind, what bank(s) do you use? We can see if we can support those faster. re Penny: we've seen a few other similarly named apps that were just referring to the cur… See more
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Mitchell Lee@dontmitch · working on pennyapp.io
@staticsteven 1) Unfortunately there's a non-trivial amount of working to add support for other countries, and we started Penny from scratch just under 3 months ago. Hopefully we'll get to Canada soon though! 2) We settled on Penny because it was a play off of the one cent coin and was a catchy name for a person. We didn't realize there were any other Penny… See more
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Steven Ritchie@staticsteven · Product Strategy @ Versett
@_jacksmith @dontmitch @imalexquach okay okay i spoke too soon, i apologize. I think I only had the impression that the name Penny was popular - maybe I just saw the Pennies app everywhere on the app store recently and that made me think there were a lot.
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Marius Masalar@mostlymarius · Tech Writer, Photographer
@imalexquach I would love to use this up in Canada as well—I think if you cover RBC and TD you're doing great. After that you can add BMO, CIBC, PC Financial, and Scotiabank and you basically account for everyone.
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Nick Jessop@n_jessop
@imalexquach Except all the people banking with Canadian credit unions.
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