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Max Tagher
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Co-Founder/CTO @mercury; check it out at demo.mercury.com 🐀
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    Max Tagher
    @MaxTagher
    Mar 20
    Cool feature of natural language UIs powered by AI: your users tell you about missing features Example: @mercury bank accounts have an auto-transfer feature where you can setup rules like ~top up my checking account to X from investments when it gets below Y. You can set up the
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    Max Tagher
    @MaxTagher
    Feb 10
    Passkeys do get hate (eg this TikTok has 240K likes tiktok.com/t/ZP89xNPDM/) but it’s gotta be way less than TOTP (6 digit rotating codes à la Google Authenticator). Success rate @mercury for TOTP is 88% vs 97% for passkeys, and passkeys have ⅓ the support tickets
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    tautologer
    @tautologer
    Feb 10
    Passkeys are the solution to this problem but people are mad about those too
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    Max Tagher
    @MaxTagher
    Sep 7, 2025
    Telling myself this after the 15th attempt at a Silksong boss
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    Astrid Wilde 🌞
    @astridwilde1
    Sep 5, 2025
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    Max Tagher
    @MaxTagher
    Feb 26, 2025
    A wild thing about Google Ads: hackers can run an ad showing your domain, but it actually leads to a phishing site. @mercury got hit by this 3 years ago—but within a week, we launched a device verification system to stop it. I wrote up the story for our eng blog (link below)
    Screenshot of a google ad for mercury.com. A caption reads "the ad shows the real mercury.com domain"
    A screenshot of a phishing site with the URL app-mercurys.com. The site shows a rough copy of the real mercury.com login. A caption reads "But it takes you to a phishing site!"
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    Max Tagher
    @MaxTagher
    Feb 14, 2025
    The @mercury engineering team is releasing our internal exercises for learning Esqueleto, the query builder we use on our Haskell backend. Query builder vs raw SQL is a classic debate on Hacker News—we use both, but mostly the query builder for type safety and composability.
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