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VentureBeat: Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances

  • SmilingTriton · 2 years ago
    Am I missing something here? People will REALLY give to Mint their banking account username/password so Mint could get their daily transactions and upgrade those nice looking graphs? I'll ask it one more time: People will REALLY give to Mint their banking account username/password?
  • Eric Eldon · 2 years ago
    Well, I gave Mint my personal data. I trust Mint at least as much as I trust Bank of America, frankly. Also, the US government can access anything BofA has and much more. Who do you trust?
  • FIRE Finance · 2 years ago
    Mint's servers were extremely busy today, we could not even add our accounts. We do have a concern about giving our personal data to Mint. Security is a big question mark. But willing to try the package provide their servers are ready to serve us. Nice review!
  • Mary · 2 years ago
    I've been using Yodlee through Fidelity. I like the looks on mint so far but haven't been able to download any transactions today. Hopefully the servers will catch up tonight!
  • Scott Pannier · 2 years ago
    I can't really believe I readily registered on Mint.com and submitted my username and passwords for Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Discover...oh well!

    Clearly something was wrong though b/c none of my accounts were uploaded, I was getting error pages back from Mint. Looks like I wasn't the only one trying to integrate my accounts to see what Mint.com spit back.

    "If you build it, he will come" but I probably won't remember next week what the site was called or be interested in using it after my first go-around.
  • Tester · 2 years ago
    These sites have to realize that when they launch they have to work and at scale. Obviously there will be a spike in traffic - but if you get me or anyone else to the site and it doesn't work - you have just lost a customer forever. Put in your info and wait and wait and wait - great user experience. . .
  • Alexander Falk · 2 years ago
    Nice report and screenshots, but I must say that I've rarely seen a company being so much over-hyped without any foundation. How could Mint win the TC40, without being scalable or getting their math right? They just promised me that I can save $35,977 by switching to CapitalOne:
    http://www.xmlaficionado.com/2007/09/mint-pomis...
    Not a joke - I've posted actual screenshots!
  • Max · 1 year ago
    Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances thanks for this post!
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