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No worries, same here :)

P.P.S The highlighted "people" in the headline hurts my eyes.

This is cool and seems to have a nice flow to it. Not as data intensive as Crunchbase making it easier to read for general knowledge / trivia about a company / product.

I think CB is more focused on the finer details of a company for people to make business decisions.

How are you curating the database? I have been kicking around FinTECH Report http://www.fintechreport.info for a while now but curation is just such a de-motivator for me.

I was hoping that the respective owners/managers of a product might "take ownership" of the listings and manage them... I would love to hear how you solve for that.

P.S. I looked up Twitter and Biz Stone wasn't in the founder list. I'm sorry i'm not motivated to sign up and fix it. Honestly, i'm just not bothered to help out as a site visitor....but... I would hold it against the site if it missed such critical details as that. (Not trying to be harsh, just honest realistic feedback, if that's ok). :)

Good work though and interested to see where it goes.

It's screen scraping as TFL don't offer an API for this unfortunately. Would that put you off?

I agree but it seems difficult. I am not really involved in many communities and most don't like to be spammed with links.

My other idea https://www.chronodaq.com is a private marketplace for professional watch dealers, like a stock exchange. It is ultra difficult to speak to that domain as it is a conservative business. I ultimately need to ask people about their business process for sourcing, trading and valuing watches which is somewhat proprietary.

I'm kind of stumped on how to get real validation on that one to be honest. There are proven businesses for diamonds such as polygon.net but I need to talk to people.

Oyster Alerts is easy and has the most engagement now so I think that is going to be my focus and get an MVP out the door.

This is interesting..

That said, only social logins are supported so I am out.

I refuse to login with the likes of Google, Facebook et al.

email/pwd for me and if that doesn't exist I can't enter...

If you manage to implement a regular signup flow let me know.

Tweet me on @conor_hackett

Cheers and good luck with the project.

I prefer same type design as opposed to going off piste..

In fact, if I want to leard about something or somebody I will often choose Wikipedia primarily over something else because I know it's format and can get straight to digesting the information I came for.

(The issue of me using a crowdsourced platform as a prioritised source of something else for a different discussion)

Hello

I am the creator of Chrono Weeky.

Apart from the pretence attached in modern day.. I find watches interesting. The history attached to models and the fact that each one was built with a specific problem to be solved is something I enjoy reading about. Perhaps others will too.. and so this news letter was born.

From the website:

"Chrono Weekly curates watch news and trivia from around the web.

Every Tuesday we will send you selected headlines from the industry along with some interesting data and trivia on a selected watch. There will also be a few interesting articles to read in your spare time."

My inspiration for this was Go Lang weekly and Better Dev (https://yeo.space)

Thank you

P.S. The rules say signup pages aren't allowed as they can't be tried out. I don't think newsletter signups fit into this as you need to go on the list to receive the newsletter. Happy to be corrected by moderators.

P.P.S Since the first issue is coming on the Tuesday, there are no previous issues to read on the website but they will be made available.

I can't see how they could disallow it to be honest. That would be seriously anti-competitive.

I couldn't agree more.

Up to now it has been near impossible for third party solutions to end up on terminals. I've seen these new Verifone terminals and they are awesome. I can't wait to see what comes of these.

It is simple as this and I have seen the research.

The west loves tapping and the east loves scanning (AliPay / WePay)

It is a race to the bottom.

Payment processing has become so commoditised that you need huge scale.. see the Worldpay/Vantiv merger.

What Square and Stripe are doing is adding value and simplifying the complexities around payments. They will only be able to rinse small merchants with the high fees who need the equipment also (can't afford bespoke systems).

The larger tier one retailers get payments for near zero fees as they are literally just consuming the processing and they bring their own system/hardware/management.

card present fees are vastly different (lower) than not present, and there is usually no fixed fee.

Well something like that depending on the Stripe infrastructure.

That currently happens when an issuer card is used in a merchant that is acquired/processed with the same issuing bank. It is called an "on us" transaction and doesn't need to fire through the card scheme rails.

I see all of your points, and agree things are going that way.

But, for me, I will be staying with the cards until the chargeback/dispute schemes match up on bank transfers. I don't want to have to go to the small claims court if I have a problem.

Interesting.. I was thinking about that but what if he argues his time is worth money also. As part of that argument, partner then wishes to clock his hours and get paid back also. Does that put us back to square one.

I often come across, what I would often describe as an arrogance (for want of a better term) as some people that originated the idea. They often think they are the brains and the engineer is the brawn..

Hi, I am the creator of FinTECH Report.

As somebody who is focused on FinTECH I was planning on creating a list to track products etc. Instead of keeping to myself, I figured why not run a site to help others too. After running a short survey ad campaign on Facebook with positive feedback, I decided to build and launch a prototype.

That prototype has just launched and I am interested to hear peoples feedback.

The site is initially focusing on the UK FinTech space but I do not intent to keep that restriction.

Thank you

EDIT: For those of you curious. This is all static HTML hosted on AWS S3. I have a CSV file with the product data, which is written out to a template via a quick application I wrote in Go. It's manual but quick really. My frontend web skills are very dusty now and I need to learn a new JS framework.

An offering from Palantir perhaps?

Starting new job next week as an R&D Analyst for a leading payment processor, moving from an Android Developer position.

Side project is automating eBay / Amazon Arbitrage (Dropshipping) using Go / Java. Learning Go in the process.

For me I would love to hit up the GoLang conference here in London, UK. < http://golanguk.com >

I started learning Go back in November and loving it so far.

Hmm, didn't work for me. Try this one:

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...

Wow, that's pretty harsh. Regarding the depression. I have started taking medication, which has a lead time to effectiveness of about 6 weeks. I'm about 4 weeks in so hopefully things will pick up soon.

Thanks for this. Financially, I could survive quitting before securing a new job. That said, I have told myself I will hold out for the 12 month mark, for credibility.