davidmurdoch

Who defines what proper is?

It's for Clippy. Bring back Clippy!

They already leap frog fixes and improvements based on previous flights on all their launches.

How are you planning to turn this off remotely when telemetry off?

"You can't hide secrets from the future" - MC Frontalot

Sure.

I created it back in 2011 or 2012.

It wasn't a gift card that personally motivated me to make this. It was credits from an online referral program I was gifted. I guarantee I did not read the fine print at that time.

I responded to others with more details if you're interested

I didn't know what a "money transference service" was, and certainly didn't know this service that I didn't know about was highly regulated.

I only created it because I had Google Play Credits that were gifted to me. I built an app to "convert" them to cash for myself. I had never built an app before. I was proud of it and tried to make it pretty and professional and useful for others, and used it as a learning experience. The listing on the Play Store was clear about what it was.

I had to answer questions about what the API was being used for when I signed up for Dwolla (an actual regulated money transference service). I answered honestly. They approved it.

The app sat unused with no downloads for years before someone on Reddit's `r/churning/` posted about it.

Technically it was an unregulated money transference service without KYC. The user that stole the cards from the bookstore was the one doing the money laundering part. I just enabled it (which is probably worse, legally).

I was investigated and cooperated fully.

Edit: I just remembered, the bank I used for the transference did do KYC for all users who were sent funds. This makes it more like "money dirtying", since the account is tied directly to a real identity.

When you "spend" Google Play Credits in an app, Google Play treats those credits the same as if you paid with real money: they took 30% (their take isn't so steep today), I took 10%, and then I sent the user/buyer the remaining 60% directly from my bank account (I used Dwolla back then).

It was risky because I didn't actually receive any money from Google until about a month later.

Haha. I used to have some blog posts detailing things a bit more, but I let it die when Heroku cancelled their original free tier years ago.