Top all-time · #9154
Teller
Company blog · blog.teller.iowebbusiness
Teller is the company blog at blog.teller.io, writing about web and business. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Teller's post on TAuth, its authentication scheme for bank-account APIs, as background on how the service works and on bank-data access rules such as PSD II.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-05-05
- Teller – API for your bank account3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-21
- Improving API Performance with Telnet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-23
What Hacker News says?
Teller allows developers to build applications on top of their users' bank accounts, not just your own. Read more about TAuth and how it works here: https://blog.teller.io/2016/04/26/tauth.html
Comment linking /2016/04/26/tauth.html
on “Teller – API for your bank account”Submitted Teller – API for your bank account as a story · 609 points
HN discussionIt's the same in France, yet some aggregators (e.g. Bankin) are using those credentials directly (and afaik the risk is handled via some sort of insurance). I'm personally waiting for the PSD II law to be deployed (see https://blog.teller.io/2016/04/26/tauth.html ) in order to have clear-cut protections & boundaries, before leveraging Bankin or similar (Teller) as a SaaS product builder.
Comment linking /2016/04/26/tauth.html
on “Teller – API for your bank account”Submitted Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it as a story · 311 points
HN discussionFounder here. First of all, I'm honored the legendary John Nagle now knows about my startup! :) Privacy policy and terms are linked to from https://teller.io/developer/beta Privacy policy: https://teller.io/developer/privacy Terms: https://teller.io/developer/terms Payments APIs will be signed by the developer's private key (See more about that our auth scheme here https://blog.teller.io/2016/04/26/tauth.html ) and…
Comment linking /2016/04/26/tauth.html
on “Teller – API for your bank account”Submitted Teller: The API for your bank account is here (UK) as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI missed the part about selenium scraping – thanks for pointing that out. There has just been a project submitted to solve this on HN – https://blog.teller.io/2017/06/12/the-api-for-your-bank-acco... But it seems to support only a handful of UK banks – no ANZ or Kiwibank.
Comment linking /2017/06/12/the-api-for-your-bank-account-is-here.html
on “Show HN: Expense Tracker as a PWA with Google Sheets backend for privacy”Submitted Improving API Performance with Telnet as a story · 17 points
HN discussionCongrats on the launch! I'm the CEO and co-founder of https://teller.io that uses private mobile banking APIs to provide access to bank accounts too, and you're right it's the way to go. We don't think regulation or OAuth based APIs will ever yield an improvement on this approach (explained why here - https://blog.teller.io/2021/06/21/our-mission.html ) You're going to quickly find out that these API endpoints are c…
Comment linking /2021/06/21/our-mission.html
on “Launch HN: Realize (YC W22) – Integrate brokerage accounts into your site or app”Submitted Improving API Performance with Telnet as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The API for your bank account is here as a story · 3 points
HN discussion