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The AI watches his subscriptions through Plaid and emails him changes every week, replacing two paid apps

A man was paying about $30 a month to RocketMoney and the AI just to find subscriptions he had forgotten about, and using them only now and then. He had the AI connect to Plaid, where it found more subscriptions than the two apps ever had, and set up a weekly email listing his current subscriptions and any price changes.

$30a month

How it works

  1. He connects the AI to his accounts through Plaid
  2. The AI searches his spending and finds more subscriptions than his paid apps found
  3. He has it set up a weekly job
  4. Every week he gets an email with his current subscriptions and any price changes

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent did not just match the paid apps. On his own accounts it found subscriptions both of them had missed.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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