5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Plaid first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“The bank integration (via Plaid) was also not reliable.”
regret · production · human_llm · 2024-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I regret handing over my bank login details to Plaid, since they scraped my bank statements without stating so upfront and offered that information to 3rd parties”
regret · personal · sangnoir · 2022-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated out of Plaid into SynapseFI because Plaid started charging a high price on a per connection request service”
regret · production · xtracto · 2022-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use plaid.com to connect to your bank account and the app is free!”
neutral · production · uzomaemuchay · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Plaid, which a bunch of popular fintech services use to connect to a user's financial institution”
neutral · production · retyler · 2019-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?