I recently attended Mondo’s second Hackathon, and it was incredibly insightful. My first hackathon, and moreover, my first time working with a RESTful API.

For the last 10 days I’ve been Alpha testing Mondo with their bright pink prepaid MasterCard, and it’s been an incredible experience. Speedy purchase notifications, geotagged transactions and automatic categorisation have really shown up the standard UK banking industry.

Last night I thought I’d have another play around with the Mondo API. I had already used the API at the hackathon 10 days ago, however the novelty of seeing banking transactions pop up in Postman had been renewed by the fact that this was my data, my real transactions.