[kjhughes]

Title of post, "Simple Is Now Available To The Public," is misleading; per the Simple website: "Now available by invitation only." Maybe the fact that Simple has begun letting people in from their invite list was not flashy enough for the title.

A quick look around after receiving my invite (but before signing up) left me less enthused that I'd been when BankSimple was first getting started...

Simple appears to have bailed on building an actual bank and instead teamed up with The Bancorp Bank for customer deposits.

BankSimple's cool API plans? The Google group linked from their site has been inactive for over 18 months:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/simple-ap...

Now their CTO leaves in the middle of launch? I'm not feeling as excited about Simple as I was originally.