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hackncheese · 2023-09-15 15:04:11

This reminds me of a company my friend used to work for, Ketch [1]. Basically described their service as automation that fulfills this exact requirement on customers databases. Sounds like they were ahead of the game.

[1] https://www.ketch.com/

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gricardo99 | karma 1664 | avg karma 4.04 · | 2024-03-28 17:21:55

interesting point.

i know of at least one startup working with that concept[1].

Im sure there are others.

1 - https://www.extropic.ai/

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alecco | karma 8121 | avg karma 3.01 · | 2014-04-03 18:11:40+00:00

InfinyDB did this with MySQL a long time ago http://infinidb.co/products

mjs7231 | karma 384 | avg karma 5.26 · | 2020-05-19 23:55:00+00:00

When I was using Google sheets I was really looking at this company Tiller to auto-fetch my transactions. I never actually tried them out, but the service looks pretty compelling: https://www.tillerhq.com/

adaml_623 | karma 2244 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2014-10-14 12:01:51+00:00

Is this an opportunity for a startup to automate the process of retrieving money?

Like http://www.getfixed.me/ but on a more serious scale!

(Not in US so not something I can do)

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vilkkala | karma 27 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2023-08-28 11:33:28

There’s a Finnish startup working on something similar: https://kelluu.com/

jssmith | karma 692 | avg karma 19.22 · | 2019-01-30 15:01:47

One startup that’s working on this is unitQ: https://www.unitq.com

aembleton | karma 3344 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2018-01-24 00:42:10+00:00

Also, there are companies that already do this, such as Iovation: https://www.iovation.com/

enra | karma 3158 | avg karma 5.58 · | 2009-07-02 20:26:31+00:00

There are already companies that do something like this eg. http://www.enfucell.com/

mrbabbage | karma 768 | avg karma 8.08 · | 2017-05-02 23:04:51+00:00

There's a YC company called Front that does more or less this: https://frontapp.com/

perryh2 | karma 450 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2018-01-29 07:42:13

I have a feeling that MyEtherWallet could pull off the same thing. https://www.myetherwallet.com/

rozenmd | karma 3549 | avg karma 3.15 · | 2022-08-18 04:22:49

The actual business website explains what it does better: https://datafetcher.com/

JOfferijns | karma 784 | avg karma 12.25 · | 2013-01-27 18:09:50+00:00

There are actually quite a few startups doing this already, e.g. Verbling: https://www.verbling.com/

88stacks | karma 55 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2022-12-24 15:50:54

I like that they are doing this as a manually process. We are doing this for a bunch of customers now at https://88stacks.com they train their own model for their own use cases through our api.

adaml_623 | karma 2244 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2014-10-14 12:01:49+00:00

Is this an opportunity for a startup to automate the process of retrieving money?

Like http://www.getfixed.me/ but on a more serious scale!

(I'm not in the US so not something I can do)

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top256 | karma 133 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2017-11-03 17:44:37+00:00

There is this company too: https://computing.qarnot.com/

It's built on the same idea but a more mature and more general solution to the same problem.

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exz | karma 306 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2022-06-18 04:37:05

I'm not aware of such services, but here is a thread regarding side project demand validation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691811

twog | karma 1942 | avg karma 5.99 · | 2013-04-22 16:58:22+00:00

I completely agree. This is the exact problem that we are trying to solve at my current startup, http://Banyan.co

leftnode | karma 3880 | avg karma 5.09 · | 2012-08-09 17:31:08+00:00

I built a service nearly identical to this (https://accthub.com) and that is one of the biggest issues we're trying to overcome as well.

kdamica | karma 860 | avg karma 5.58 · | 2023-08-26 08:39:15

OpenStore is doing something similar for small e-commerce businesses: https://open.store/