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A comment on Y Combinator’s growth fund to back challenger bank Monzo. Parent comment

Re:Y Combinator’s growth fund to back challenger bank Monzo by subjectHarold on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:59AM (#19614657)
...why do I care about push notifications? By "customers love that feature" you mean, you like that feature. Most people aren't interested in having an app at all but the ones that are just want to be able to look at their balance, make payments, and cash cheques.

If I want to see if I have made a payment, I just open the app...which takes 10 seconds instead of a 5 second push notification.

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Re:Y Combinator’s growth fund to back challenger bank Monzo by westiseast on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:43AM (#19615157)
It’s nice for two reasons:

* I get an independent confirmation that money has actually left my account (eg we’ve all shopped on websites when the payment pages crash and you don’t know if something has gone through or not)

* it’s comforting knowing that if for some reason someone else was illegally using your card, you’d be getting instant push notifications about it.

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