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Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage

Many years ago I froze my credit with all three credit reporting agencies in the US. This was a fairly straightforward process that differed slightly at each agency, but mostly involved getting a numeric PIN that I then used to request temporary unfreezes from time to time. In February of 2023 I attempted to request an unfreeze from Experian, but the process had changed. They wanted me to create…

Recover from fraud

An app that takes a year of your credit/debit card payment history and makes a checklist of subscriptions that you need to update with new info when you change cards?

An introduction

I’m a software engineer, startup founder and occasional angel investor currently living in San Francisco. I have a toddler at home who I take care of full-time, and my partner and I have another on the way. I’ve worked on a few interesting things in the past. I worked at Twilio on a lot of user-facing things from 2010 through the end of 2012, including the account dashboard, API and…