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Daniel Greenberg

Privacy.com API - Programmable virtual cards for developers

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Interface with your Privacy account. Set your own rules for authorizing transactions by category and merchant.

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Boling Jiang
Maker
Hey PH! I’m really excited to share this with the community! It’s been a feature we’ve wanted to release for awhile - since our launch in fact. We believe that data portability and an open ecosystem will be table stakes for all fintech companies. You should have granular, differential control of your data. You should be able to grant access to specific functions or aspects of your financial account without wholesale sharing your account login information. You should be able to verify your identity without sharing other personal information. We ultimately intend for this API to be both read / write capable, including the ability to read transaction data, set rules programmatically, verify identity, create & manage virtual numbers, and transfer funds. That said, security is core to what we do at Privacy.com and this extends to our API. We want to empower developers to build applications on top of our API that delight users, without compromising their privacy or security. We’d greatly value your feedback as a user, developer, or information security professional. Cheers, Bo
Jasper
@bolingj Very cool! I'm an avid user of the app so it's great to see you release an API. How does this compare with www.marqeta.com ?
Boling Jiang
Maker
@jaspercurry Thanks for being an early supporter Jasper! We're free to use and more focused on empowering the end user and building an open ecosystem for our users - although we envision you'll be able to do similar things. I think Marqeta is more focused on enterprises and their business model / pricing reflects that.
Julian Dakar Joseph
@bolingj This is pretty cool. Would QA and testing of cards be considered a valid use case? I remember early on this wasn't something supported, but its seems like an API could be used for just that. Thanks!
Miguel Piedrafita
Is this available on Europe?
Boling Jiang
Maker
@m1guelpf Unfortunately not yet :(
Yury Molodtsov
Exciting to see this great tool for the consumers expanding into other areas!
Boling Jiang
Maker
@y_molodtsov Thanks Yury!
Daniel Greenberg
Hunter
Brilliant idea - been huge fan of the product from day 1 and excited to see what comes out of the API
Boling Jiang
Maker
@15greenberg 🙏Thanks Daniel!
Kyle McDonald
I've been waiting on this for so long, so excited to see this finally happen!
Boling Jiang
Maker
@hustlinhack Thanks Kyle! :)
Richard kim
this is awesome! congrats :)
Boling Jiang
Maker
@cwrichardkim Thanks Richard!
Logan Honeycutt
This seems so interesting! Many possibilities to come from this.
Boling Jiang
Maker
@growwithlogan Thank you Logan!
Hayden Evans
Love this and love Privacy.com!
Greg Cohn
This is very interesting - congratulations on the launch. I'm assuming the API is relevant only for existing customers, ie I'm a Privacy.com user, I go to App/Site X and auth my individual account, App/Site X can do cool stuff with my account and account data. Is this right? Can you share some of the kinds of use cases you hope to see developers build?
James Cerone
Hi Boling - I work for a security company that often builds out integrations with tools - have you seen any companies use this as part of their security stack?