News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN : What side project are you working on?.

Re:Ask HN : What side project are you working on? by senjindarashiva on Thursday August 20, 2015 @03:22AM (#10090398)
I'm working on a exchange rate tracker, currently for Swedes working in Norway. Basically the idea is to setup alerts on favorable rates and deliver them via mail.

https://svenskpeng.nu/ (in Swedish) if it catches on I'll extend it to other currencies.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN : What side project are you working on? by edwastone on Thursday August 20, 2015 @03:37AM (#10090438)
What is your data source? Does the exchange rate vary a lot across the sources?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN : What side project are you working on? by senjindarashiva on Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:30AM (#10091383)
Currently I am using http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index...

And there is some degree of variation between different sources, for example this is the NOKSEK exchange rate from yahoo.

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from...

And since the variations between sources is limited I believe that getting a rough idea of the rate (which differs from bank to bank as well) Is beneficial especially in currencies like NOKSEK where the difference can vary between 0-10%

[ Parent | on HN ]