dkang009's comments

On: Fixing a modern tax tragedy – how Keeper built automatic write-off detection

[dkang009]

Hey HN, David here from Keeper (YC W19). We've been working on a system for finding tax write-offs for freelancers for over four years. We've gotten to a place where the results are now quite good, and we thought we'd share how we did it. Let me know what you think!

On: Launch HN: Keeper Tax (YC W19) – Find tax writeoffs in bank statements

[dkang009]

Thanks! I'd love to learn more about what you guys are doing as well.

On: Launch HN: Keeper Tax (YC W19) – Find tax writeoffs in bank statements

[dkang009]

Yes! We can handle credit cards and Paypal! In fact, we can handle basically all U.S. based financial institutions.

On: Launch HN: Keeper Tax (YC W19) – Find tax writeoffs in bank statements

[dkang009]

Thanks for your initial thoughts! We do need to store purchase history to improve our predictions, but we have no plans at the moment to do anything else with the data.

@pricing - we haven't really figured out our pricing model yet - that's why we're sticking to a low flat fee for now!

[soared → dkang009]

> we have no plans at the moment to do anything else with the data.

If I had a nickel..

[fhbdukfrh → soared]

And yet to a different concern about granting access to digital data the response is"what concerns do you have with sharing purchasing data?"

Naivety or purposely deflecting from the very real concerns many have and everyone should?

[kelnos → dkang009]

> we have no plans at the moment to do anything else with the data.

I'm not you're target market (I'm a W-2 employee), but I would not share something as sensitive and personal as my full purchase history with a company that didn't explicitly state that they would never mine or sell that data. Especially for a service that I'd be paying for.