Ask HN: Anybody working on personal data plumbing?

[pearsa]

The majority of our online interactions with companies / institutions reduce to us filling out and posting forms. This is much better than doing the same thing with paper or email. But it can't be that way forever. Especially as the volume of data increases, types of data become more varied, and frequency of such interactions increases.

My vision for how it should be is more like payments. I give the company / institution my card details, and they transact against it to get what they need. This transaction is facilitated by a clever broker company (i.e. the company I want to build) who knows how to fetch the data from me - but doesn't own or control said data - at some small latency.

Why doesn't the VISA / MasterCard of personal data transactions exist yet? Is anyone working on this? Does anyone want to?

I get that this sounds a bit crazy right now, but I think this is a huge business in the next decade.

[messel]

Bonus points if you tie this to a cryptocurrency that is "staked" by data owners (you and I). Sounds like a reasonable core idea to build on, good luck!

We do a ton of data plumbing at my current startup https://welco.me/ . Ps we launched our 2.0 app today

[pearsa → messel]

welco.me looks fun! Thank you - luck graciously received.

[nextos]

Pillar is trying to build a personal data wallet on top of Ethereum. No idea how much of this has been accomplished already, or whether they have pivoted to something slightly different. Their original vision was somehow similar to your idea.

[pearsa → nextos]

Very cool - I'll take a look. Thank you.

[_rzez]

I’m working on something like that at xevol.com.