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ScottWhigham on June 16, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Review my Startup (Idea)

* This could eventually replace the credit ratings infrastructure of experian, equifax, etc.*

Wow - talk about smoking the kool-aid. We went from "similar to gravatars" to replacing Equifax all in about 1000 characters. That's a bit much for me lol.

grandalf on June 16, 2009 [–]

Well consider that those companies charge $10 per credit rating lookup...

Credibility/trust tracking is huge. Ebay's seller/buyer trust data, if tied to SSN (or better) would be worth Billions.

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