> On Jun 6, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Hugi Thordarson <h...@karlmenn.is> wrote: > >>> >>> On a lighter note, this was a bit of a panicky situtation since it happened >>> during a hackathon, where Cayenne (among others) earned us the title “best >>> technical solution”. And we got this excellent production-quality Yoda to >>> show for it :). >> >> Nice! Can you provide any more info about it? I'll put it on Cayenne Twitter >> :) > > lol :). Well… The largest Icelandic bank (Arion) decided to create and open > up APIs for a lot of their stuff and then let 12 teams go at it for 30 hours. > They had APIS for creating bank accounts, perform transactions on accounts > and credit cards, read transaction information, create electronic invoices > etc. etc.). Lots of fun (and little sleep) was had and we ended up with this > solution: > > https://www.afland.is > > It’s a website to help groups collect money. Say you and your group of > friends want to go to the Montreaux Jazz festival in 2018 and you decide to > put in €20 a month each towards the trip. Usually when you do something like > this, one guy has to create the account, manage everything, make sure > everyone pays etc. It’s a hassle. But this website takes cares of everything; > creates a new account, allows you to register your friends via e-mail or > Facebook (and allows them to authenticate) and then automatically charges > their accounts, credit cards or sends them a Claim. Each payment is linked to > the correct user (based on their Icelandic National Registry numbers) and > everyone can log in and see how the collection is going and if everyone’s > paying up. It’s nice.
Nice! I'll post the picture on Twitter. This reminds me. I was thinking of adding Bootique integration for Play. Just don't have any ongoing projects that might need it. I'd like to hear more about your Play experiences. Maybe at Montreal at WOWODC. > BTW, the name “Afland” means “Offshore”. So when you start collecting money, > you’re starting an “Offshore company”. It’s a joke that works better in > Icelandic, really ;). In landlocked countries like Belarus, offshore is unambiguously money laundering. Nobody would really think of oceans and shores :) Andrus
