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by boling11 8y ago
Hey there! I'm really sorry to hear about the negative experience. I can't speak to a specific case on a public forum. However, you are correct that in very rare cases, merchants can push through transactions without prior authori
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by boling11 8y ago
Thanks for the heads up! Fixed :).
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by boling11 8y ago
Hey HN! One of the founders here. We're really excited to share this today. It's just a start, but this is something we’ve wanted to release for a long time now :). We believe that data portability and an open ecosystem will be ta
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by boling11 9y ago
PRIVACY.COM | NEW YORK (NYC), BROOKLYN | $90-140K, 0.1 - 2% equity | ONSITE, FULL-TIME We’ve built a secure way to pay online without giving away your personally identifiable information (PII) or credit card number. We're a small team
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by boling11 9y ago
Marc isn't saying you should focus on networking at the seed stage. You should focus on building + customers and just not try to raise your seed from a16z. a16z isn't a seed focused fund. They prefer waiting for more proof points,
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by boling11 9y ago
The USPS is also losing money at an unheard rate, even amongst VC backed startups in Sv - $60+ billion in the past 10 years.
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by boling11 10y ago
From the news, it sounded like the repricing benefited Series C investors, and current employees got equity increases. So founders, former employees, and earlier investors probably lost out...
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by boling11 10y ago
PRIVACY.COM | NEW YORK (NYC), BROOKLYN | $90-140K | ONSITE Come help us build and scale Privacy.com! In less than a year since launching, we've moved millions of dollars and protected tens of thousands of users. About us: We’ve built a
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by boling11 10y ago
I'm disappointed that this is the top comment. You're not wrong. But this comment completely lacks substance and doesn't even attempt to address the post. I don't fully agree with Slava, but at least he makes some though
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by boling11 10y ago
PRIVACY.COM | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (NYC) | $100-140K | ONSITE Come help us build and scale Privacy.com! In just a few months since launching, we've moved millions of dollars and protected tens of thousands of users. About us: We’ve built
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by boling11 10y ago
Hey there! I work at Privacy.com. This is something we've been working to improve over the past few months. If this happens again can you shoot us a note support@privacy.com with the details?
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by boling11 10y ago
Hey! I work at privacy.com - would love to get your thoughts on our product. Hit me up at bo@privacy.com for an invite if you're up for it. I'll tell you how we got the domain :).
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by boling11 11y ago
Wow - good catch. This was a huge miss on our part. We had it in the previous version, but it got overwritten (no excuse, our mess up). Anyway, thanks for bringing it up. We've pushed the updated terms.
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by boling11 11y ago
I hear ya - hope you give us a try :). Would love to get your thoughts!
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by boling11 11y ago
We don't actually store your credentials. We work with Plaid.com, and take a token which we can use to pull balance information. This allows us to fund a transaction in real time and take on the risk of ACH. When you change your creden
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by boling11 11y ago
That's fair, if you're doing something illegal that may result in a subpoena, this is not the product for you. However, that doesn't mean what we're doing isn't meaningful. We just think that you just shouldn't
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by boling11 11y ago
Can you ping me - bo@privacy.com? Thanks!
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by boling11 11y ago
We didn't pay any cash. It's a long story, but there's probably a good blog post in this.
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by boling11 11y ago
Yup - you can grab old numbers from your dashboard or iOS app (coming soon pending approval).
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by boling11 11y ago
You're right. We should've done a better job with this. It was a trade-off and we decided against, but we should done a better job communicating it. Hopefully you can enable Javascript for us and give it a shot :).
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by boling11 11y ago
So the crazy thing is that's actually an email from your bank :E. We have no control over the formatting of that email.
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by boling11 11y ago
You're right the language here should be better. FWIW, you're not opening a bank account and we aren't pulling a credit check (per our FAQ). We cross check the information as part of our AML / KYC policy.
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by boling11 11y ago
The refund will go directly back to your original funding account.
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by boling11 11y ago
We make chargebacks just as easy. There's a button you can click next to the transaction that will initiate the dispute process - we'll deposit the funds back in your primary funding account and follow up with you, then resolve wi
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by boling11 11y ago
Ashley Madison and porn users are easy targets. But broadly-speaking, we just think you just shouldn't have to share your personal info with a random merchant you want to buy something from. It's anti-privacy in the guise of being
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by boling11 11y ago
This sounds like it would be an interesting use of our API. Can you ping me at bo@privacy.com? I'd love to chat more.
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by boling11 11y ago
Yup! We have plans for Firefox (April) and Safari (TBD).
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by boling11 11y ago
Debit cards are something we're looking towards in the near term, credit cards probably will have to be a premium feature (due to how we make money right now). The numbers can be one-time use (burners) or re-usable at the same merchant
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by boling11 11y ago
We are still subject to US AML / KYC laws. But the cool thing about these cards is you can use any name or billing info you want with them, so don't have to worry about your info getting leaked if some website you bought an indie
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by boling11 11y ago
That is great to know! If we do add support for credit cards, it would probably be as a sort of premium feature.

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