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Printing a Check for Free

check.supply
2 points·by pfista·3개월 전·0 comments

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Show HN: Webhook Rodeo

webhook.rodeo
4 points·by pfista·8개월 전·0 comments

Skeet – Hosted MCP Tools for Coding

skeet.build
1 points·by pfista·작년·1 comments

Show HN: Check Supply – Send Checks in the Mail

check.supply
38 points·by pfista·작년·89 comments

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pfista
·작년·discuss
MCP is quite complicated, so we decided to make it easy with native auth and hosted MCP connections and a single configuration step. Works with any client that supports MCP (like Cursor, Claude, Zed, ChatGPT, etc)

Let us know what you think!
pfista
·작년·discuss
Working on a new tool to automate busy work and save time for founders, engineers, support reps, and marketers.

Most ai apps are focused on reading and synthesizing data, but none are great at “write” actions across apps.

We’re focused on making the simplest and easiest way to use ai to control your apps and get things done

https://stride.systems
pfista
·작년·discuss
Do you auto-generate specific MCP tools for the repo? Curious what the queries you would use with an AI agent to get a response back.

I'm building my own hosted MCP solution (https://skeet.build) and have been deliberately choosing which tools to expose depending on the use case- since there are tool limits due to the context window for apps like Cursor.
pfista
·작년·discuss
my favorite is implementing issues from linear
pfista
·작년·discuss
> Why does it need to be connected to your bank at all? It just needs the account, routing, and check numbers.

To prevent fraud
pfista
·작년·discuss
Varo is one. But even the ones that do support it like "Chime" have online comments like this:

"Chime is great for everything else, but their check features are absolute trash and will cause you frustration. Just don't do it and find another option."

> Do you restrict writing checks that are for an amount greater than the current account balance? Lastly, I’m wondering how you handle deliberate check fraud. Victims will try to sue all associated parties. How does your liability work in those cases?

That is one of our fraud signals. We have systems in place to review payment amounts, address, frequency, etc that can cause additional KYC checks to be preformed via Plaid before we'll send the check.
pfista
·작년·discuss
Hah!

Yes, it's pretty incredible actually
pfista
·작년·discuss
Thanks, appreciate the comment!

> Cash App us a lump of cash and we’ll send it somewhere by check

Funny thing about sending checks is it's just an account and routing number in a special font on a piece of paper. We don't touch any customer funds.

> Am I missing something that differentiates what you do from what they do?

We have a simpler UI with a focus just on sending the check, so having your contacts prefilled make it quick and easy. But, if your bank already supports this then probably not for you!

If we grow the app enough, we'll add more features like scheduled / recurring payments and tracking for delivery and when the check is deposited.
pfista
·작년·discuss
Was a great company. Closest thing to it today IMO is Mercury
pfista
·작년·discuss
Believe it or not I still have the Tanner Goods leather wallet that they gave as a gift for referring people to their app.

Best wallet ever
pfista
·작년·discuss
I think having a checkbook used to be a basic part of being a functional adult, but there's a whole new generation of people that have never sent a check before.

There are still a lot of businesses and government agencies that require payments to be sent by check.

It's paying for convenience. Name any "basic adulting" task and I'll show you a service that can do it for you. House cleaning, taxes, groceries, laundry, childcare, etc.
pfista
·작년·discuss
Yes most of the major banks do, but many neo banks don't. Upside is convenience and speed for folks that don't have a bank with billpay.
pfista
·작년·discuss
Yes, many banks do offer this. But some neobanks don't. We're going after a niche market here :)
pfista
·2년 전·discuss
Nope. Lob doesn’t have instant bank verification which was a deal breaker for us.

In fact there are several providers that offer checks via api but none of them worked for us, so we rolled our own :)
pfista
·2년 전·discuss
Not really. We don’t touch customer money- we just print and mail checks on their behalf.

We do require bank verification via Plaid, which proves the user has a valid username and login to their bank.

We perform further KYC checks for suspicious payments.
pfista
·3년 전·discuss
> I do find myself wondering what a system that connected my rss feed reader with global comments about webpages might look like.

To some extent, this is what Artifact.news is doing though it's mostly mainstream news right now.

They have a neat feature that aggregates comments across different articles covering the same topic.