Comments on: Kublax launches its financial profiling engine for recession-hit Brits

By: mark

mark — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:40:08 +0000

Unfortunately, having used this site for a couple of days, I didn’t find the experience compelling at all. They might have a cool visual design, but the information architecture does not lend itself to the tasks wanting to be completed by the user.

Execution flawed – they better get there arses in gear as if Mint do somehow make it to UK shores within the next 6-12 months, it will steamroll this product.

Best of luck!

By: headshot

headshot — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:05:09 +0000

I agree. kublax promises so much but delivery is really poor. I tried to get my accounts added, and it failed on both barclays and egg… as if to say, who the hell are these banks anyway ?

come on guys…
sort yourself out.

i for one will not be trusting my bank details just yet.

By: stu

stu — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:23:43 +0000

First impressions last and this looks terrible and very amateurish, Well after 2 years and all they could come up with is this :-0

They need to sack their design team and start from scratch,it looks like it was knocked up in 2 weeks never mind 2 years……….

I hope it works for you guys but to be honest i don’t think it will unless there are some drastic improvements made and a good clear out made.

By: Justin Thomas

Justin Thomas — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:28:42 +0000

Congratulations to Sridhar and the Kublax team. It’s been a long time coming, site looks great.

Best,
Justin (Xelector)

By: Nicolas Oriol

Nicolas Oriol — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:29:54 +0000

First of all, congratulations to Kublax for their launching. I hope it goes well. The better it goes for anyone in this space the more relevant it will be for all of us.

Unience is social network of investors that share information and knowledge about their real investments. If you want to see the type of info that people are sharing at Unience, see my public portfolio here:
https://www.unience.com/portfolio/profile/TuldorRV+00031fd84e0011ace9ae0d06e0a582f01211aaffea6

All the best!

Nicolas Oriol

By: gareth wong

gareth wong — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:07:10 +0000

Hey Mike et.all

pls do check out ‘more competitions’ in this space, check out Unience from Madrid, Spain

http://www.unience.com/

Mike, sent you an intro their founder already.

keen to see other’s comments/insight.

BR
@GarethWong

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:48:22 +0000

Looks like a great service – though I saw that apparently the T&Cs require you to raise any disputes in Californian courts! That looks pretty dodgy to me…

By: Jules Morgan

Jules Morgan — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:56:45 +0000

I signed up for Kublax at the beginning of the year and had started to think they were winding things up – it’s a really valuable service so I’m not only pleased that they’re still going, but also that the site has had a good overhaul.

The ongoing “when will Mint come to the UK?” saga shows no signs of being answered soon, and I suspect they’ll really benefit from the substantial injection of cash – it’s not the type of thing you can really do on a shoestring budget, and they now have the opportunity to get up to speed.

One to watch. I just hope they nail the execution.

By: Chris Padfield

Chris Padfield — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:52:35 +0000

Robert,

My understanding is some banks let you get around this for “view” only. Barclays certainly lets you do this, unless you have a business account attached in which case they don’t. My nationwide account has a pin-sentry type device but I don’t believe I have yet been asked to use it.

By: fb719410581

Wed, 06 May 2009 10:50:19 +0000

It’s an important area. Unfortunately, banks use of PINSentry authentication has scuppered automatic account reconciliation.

By: fb719410581

Wed, 06 May 2009 10:49:45 +0000

It’s an important area. Unfortunately, banks’ use of PINSentry authentication has scuppered automatic account reconciliation.

By: StevieB’s Shared Items - May 6, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace

StevieB’s Shared Items - May 6, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:08:35 +0000

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By: blah

blah — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:05:19 +0000

Unfortunate that the sites down on launch day!

By: Chris Padfield

Chris Padfield — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:10:47 +0000

Great to see the start of a UK version of Mint. This does appear to be an early beta however, lots of things don’t work – in particular trying an Amex credit card, transfers to pay of the balance seem to appear as “income” and the amount owed appears to get added to the balance (what a nice world that would be!)

I am sure they will get a lot of these issues fixed; for now I’ll stick with Egg’s money manager for account reconciliation – but will be great when this is completly up and running.

Does anyone know what service they are using to connect to the banks data systems? Yodlee like Mint?

By: stuart

stuart — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:56:16 +0000

Good timing…let’s see how Kublax stacks up against Mint or Wesabe. Do they have an Iphone app yet?

Mike: let’s not forget that Kublax is also the brainchild of Alain Revah who is a well known Internet entrepreneur and investor (at least here in the US)

By: James

James — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:43:21 +0000

Nice! I can’t wait to check this out!

By: eileen

eileen — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:58:06 +0000

Please forgive the SSL error (which means no new users can register nor can our beta test users access their accounts at the moment), but the reason is that the alternative would be worse, ie, no SSL cert and therefore unsecured data/transmission.

As Mike mentioned, the launch is planned for tomorrow (Wednesday), and in preparation we’re updating all of our SSL certs tonight … but that may take just a bit longer into the evening. In the meantime, we don’t want to take any chances and hope our beta test users will appreciate, even with potential inconvenience, that we’re locking everyone (new and old) out of the db to ensure there is absolutely no chance of any unauthorised access.

We’re pushing hard to get everything lined up for tomorrow, so please come back and check it out then!

By: w

Tue, 05 May 2009 19:53:52 +0000

As Mike kindly mentioned, the launch is planned for tomorrow (Wednesday), and in preparation we’re updating all of our SSL certs tonight … but that may take just a bit longer into the evening. In the meantime, we don’t want to take any chances and hope our beta test users will be understanding that we’re locking everyone (new and old) out of the db to ensure there is absolutely no chance of any unauthorised access.

We’re pushing hard to get everything lined up for tomorrow (obviously wouldn’t settle for anything less than SSL), so please come back and check it out then!

By: Andraž Tori

Tue, 05 May 2009 19:49:42 +0000

Great to see another Seedcamp team going forward with the plan!

I wish them luck!

[and to fix early issues before tomorrow's launch]

bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

By: Peter Clark

Peter Clark — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:39:52 +0000

The “join kublax” link gives a 404. As does the login page.

Going to https://www.kublax.com/ gives a red hat page.

I got an SSL error.

I’m all for awesome early stage stuff – but when its my online *bank* stuff, it’s important to re-assure consumers that you know your shit. (I’m sure they do, but brand identity is so vital when it comes to money … )