u/voodooprawn

I recently started using YNAB and got really frustrated with how slow the transaction sync is with Plaid (especially because Monzo notifications come in before I put my phone back in my pocket).

So I decided to build something that took advantage of Monzo's webhooks so that transactions sync pretty much instantly into YNAB. Then I updated it to push into a few other budgeting apps. Thought some people here might be interested.

Check it out: https://blinksync.zip/

Totally open to thoughts, suggestions, questions etc.

Recently started using YNAB and been loving it, but I was a little frustrated with how slowly transactions were syncing from my bank (Monzo UK). It was taking 4-6 hours.

I work in tech, so I decided to solve the issue, I set up a webhook in Monzo, a Lambda function in AWS and pushed transactions directly into YNAB using their API. Now transactions come through instantly and it probably costs about £0.01 a month.

If anyone wants to code, I can share it.

Obviously would be possible for any banks that are forward-thinking enough to provide webhooks to their customers (probably very few)