New best story on Hacker News: Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives 466 by chaseadam17 | 59 comments on Hacker News. 13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1]. For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit (W13). The next few years were a whirlwind. I was a young, naive founder with just enough experience to know I wanted Watsi to be more efficient, transparent, and innovative than most nonprofits. We spent 24/7 talking to users and coding. We did things that don’t scale. We tried our best to be walking, talking pg essays. Over the years we learned that product/market fit is different for nonprofits. Not many people wake up and think, "I'd love to donate to a nonprofit today" with the same oomph that they think, "I'd love a coffee" or "I'd like to make more money." No matter how much effort we put into fundraising,...