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by mnort9 2588 days ago
Your solution may be the better product, but info on receipt has 100% user adoption compared to the extreme minority that will put in the extra work to download the app, scan the receipt, etc. Distribution is the big win here.
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weberc2 2588 days ago
If you overhaul the system to provide those data via an API (instead of OCR-ing receipts or printing these relatively useless visualizations), then not only could DIY folks like the parent and myself do the analyses ourselves, but any number of personal finance tools could also support the system to make it easy for their customers to visualize their own data.
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JohnFen 2588 days ago
> info on receipt has 100% user adoption

How do you define "user adoption"? If a customer never looks at the receipt, then has the customer adopted the practice in any meaningful sense?

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