On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:00:32AM +0530, Sthitaprajna wrote: > Build a desktop application, like Microsoft Money, or Quicken. These allow > you to login to your preferred bank(mostly US based), and fetch your latest > account details. If you want to initiate a transaction from the desktop,
Unfortunately, what I had in mind hooks directly into what banks already offer (HBCI/FinTS/etc), which limits this to accounts I hold personally/have power of attorney (?) over. > they open up the bank's secure transaction page in the browser. People are > generally paranoid about sharing their bank/brokerage/finance information > on the internet, so building a website would not make a lot of sense. A > desktop product gives a perception of "control". You do have web-based > interfaces like Yodlee.com though. The common programs like Quicken already use the API I mentioned. My other idea was bundling this with web shops, or use it as a component for a poor man's SAP. One of the ideas I had is to tag each transaction with UIDs like 44c1725b6b30 allowing one to recognize required transactions. > Something in beta, and open source - dimdim.com Not sure if it fits your > bill. Thanks, I'll check it out. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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