Ask HN: Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue

Re:Ask HN: Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue by tjr on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @12:05AM (#880671)

I sometimes end up with a number of Visa gift cards. Maybe I use a $50 card to order a $47 book, and a $25 card to buy a $23.50 dinner.

So I have a bunch of Visa gift cards with a few dollars (or cents) on them. I would like to be able to create a new account "alias", such that I can go to an online store, enter my new account alias credit card number, and have it pull funds from my plethora of Visa gift cards, appearing to the merchant as one card, one transaction.

Not sure what the market would be for this sort of thing, but more than once I wish I could do it, and my areas of expertise are so far afield from this that I have no intention of trying to build it myself.

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Re:Ask HN: Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue by brown9-2 on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @12:08AM (#880673)

Some vendors will let you split a bill across multiple accounts - that might help you use up these gift cards with small amounts left on them.

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Re:Ask HN: Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue by tjr on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @04:44PM (#882127)

Yes, some do, but I'd like to see a more universal option. I imagine it'd be possible.

What I usually end up doing is, like, donating $1.47 to a political campaign...

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