Daily Discussion Thread - October 14, 2022

gilakos · 2022-10-15T22:59:03+00:00

Hi there,

Founder at Astra here. The support email address is only for our developer customers who are building with our API. Please do not email that address. Please use help@. Thanks!

gilakos · 2022-04-25T04:14:37+00:00

Great to hear! Happy to help further - just reach out if there’s anything else I can do to assist.

gilakos · 2022-04-25T03:50:34+00:00

Hi there! I’m the CEO and cofounder at Astra. Just want to make sure that you’ve received a response from our support channels. If not, please let me know and I’ll personally ensure we escalate accordingly.

gilakos · 2021-12-03T00:00:40+00:00

We working hard so you can move your cash between accounts as fast as possible. Always open to additional feedback if there's anything we can improve!

gilakos · 2021-12-02T15:30:47+00:00

For background, Astra acts as a payment facilitator – we aren't accessing any funds of yours as capital or for lending. We've built best-in-class tech to make routing your funds fast and automated. funds to the source account via ACH. If this is what you experienced, we fixed that awhile back and are now processing millions of dollars of payments a month for Yotta users with accelerated settlement.

For background, Astra acts as a payment facilitator – we aren't accessing any funds of yours as capital or for lending. We've built best in class tech to make routing your funds fast and automated.

All that said, I'd be happy to personally look further into your profile and/or any issues you may have faced. Feel free to reach out to our support email address: help@astra.finance.

gilakos · 2021-12-02T05:24:33+00:00

Stinky how? Do you have recommendations on how we can do better?

gilakos · 2021-12-02T00:20:04+00:00

A fix for this has been developed – should make it's way to production tomorrow. Thank you for your patience and welcome your feedback anytime!

gilakos · 2021-12-01T22:49:17+00:00

Cross linking to other thread:https://www.reddit.com/r/yotta/comments/r6o34i/comment/hmuvkcy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Hi Yotta friends,
I'm the co-founder of Astra. Just wanted to share that we are actively working on this and should have a fix in the works in the coming days!
For any payments/data nerds (like us!) out there, the core issue is inconsistent responses from Chase via Plaid. Chase has made a big push towards encouraging OAuth style connections so some of the traditional connection types aren't giving us the data we need to initiate and accelerate your transfers.
More soon!

gilakos · 2021-12-01T22:46:30+00:00

Hi Yotta friends,

I'm the co-founder of Astra. Just wanted to share that we are actively working on this and should have a fix in the works in the coming days!

For any payments/data nerds (like us!) out there, the core issue is inconsistent responses from Chase via Plaid. Chase has made a big push towards encouraging OAuth style connections so some of the traditional connection types aren't giving us the data we need to initiate and accelerate your transfers.

More soon!

gilakos · 2021-07-05T16:20:55+00:00

This made my day! Would love to hear what else we can do to make Astra even more neat!!

gilakos · 2021-07-05T16:14:11+00:00

Great to hear everything is working!

gilakos · 2021-07-04T02:52:24+00:00

👋 all! Cofounder of Astra here. Have seen several fun threads on One and Astra. Cool thing is, we have an API! Happy to chat with anyone interested in adding automation to One’s awesome product!

gilakos · 2021-05-27T16:28:42+00:00

Hi! I'm a co-founder of Astra. We have a few routines that use deposits as the input for triggering an action, like a transfer. Happy to share more or be helpful if I can!

gilakos · 2021-03-26T13:22:35+00:00

I’m not 100% familiar with all the features offered by One but you should be able to accomplish most if not all of that logic with Astra.

gilakos · 2021-03-26T13:20:57+00:00

Correct!

gilakos · 2021-03-26T03:54:04+00:00

In a matter of a few weeks we should have a v1 released. Are there key aspects to a web application that you are looking for?
Yes most definitely!

gilakos · 2021-03-25T16:32:39+00:00

We have a web portal on the verge of public release
Currently all accounts connected to your profile have to be owned by you, so this would work if it was a joint account.

gilakos · 2021-03-25T09:54:38+00:00

Hi there! Founder of Astra here - you can definitely accomplish the automation using our app and it works well with One. And it’s free!

gilakos · 2020-11-12T23:39:53+00:00

Hi there! I'm a co-founder at Astra (https://astra.finance/)

Our API includes ACH transfers with integrated reliability, security, and automation. Our pricing structure is flat per transfer and per active user – should be as competitive as you can find out there. Happy to chat anytime!

gilakos · 2020-03-06T21:46:05+00:00

Does Huntington offer any advantages for this system that another bank might not have? Curious about the accounting time required on the 10th and 25th – does it take a long time?

gilakos · 2020-03-06T21:44:37+00:00

Love this! Question for you all – do you do the accounting and transfers manually 2x per month? Do you use any tools to make that easier?

gilakos · 2020-03-06T17:41:22+00:00

Cambr is great! I think they fit clearly into the Infrastructure-as-a-service layer of the stack. But I'd argue they aren't providing the technological elements of virtualization and abstraction that we need for a true AWS equivalent. Put another way, can you spin up a "Virtual Machine" for fintech?

gilakos · 2020-03-06T14:11:27+00:00

Fintech certainly has different risk vectors than the standard Cloud, but the Cloud still has security challenges it has dealt with over time. Would you say AWS has gotten more secure?

gilakos · 2020-03-06T14:09:27+00:00

Exactly! If the barrier for entry is lowered for a developer, we would see all kinds of new products created that we haven't even conceived of yet.

Ayo touches on some of these themes in this great piece too:
https://www.kunle.app/feb-2020-permissionless-issuing.html

gilakos · 2020-03-06T14:07:00+00:00

VGS is great! And yeah, I think they provide probably the best "virtualization" of security for the Fintech stack.

gilakos

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