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by zende 13y ago
> People bitch about how hard it is to find good developers and yet hire talented developers but put them in shitty positions. Then bitch about them not being good enough. It's like buying a sports car and putting shitty watered dow
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by zende 13y ago
> I’m not sure what made them rethink their [remote employee] policy, but Balanced again asked me to come work for them, this time as their first remote developer. I can answer that. We changed the policy to allowing remote team members
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by zende 13y ago
I work at Balanced. > I have to imagine that validating their features before even building them does wonders for their development schedule. More so than I could have imagined.
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by zende 13y ago
Here's the source: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-docs
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Redesigned and Open Sourced Documentation for Balanced(docs.balancedpayments.com)
2 points by zende 13y ago|1 comments
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by zende 13y ago
> I suppose a simple way, without getting involved politically, would be to stop using any service which is hosted in the US or by a company that falls under US jurisdiction. I'm not sure it's that simple, nor is that entirely
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by zende 13y ago
Similar to how the VIP feature works but in the consolidated view that you've created. I want to see everything in one place. It's too easy to get distracted by other emails once I open Mail.app or, in my case, Mailbox.
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by zende 13y ago
It's interesting to hear about offline merchants accepting bitcoins. I wonder how much of it has to do with the fixed card processing fees as a component of the small transaction size. The goal would seem to be when the restaurant can
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by zende 13y ago
Nice! I wake up every day around 5:30am and try to get up and going as quickly as I can. You nailed some of the key things I already do in the morning: - check the weather - figure out what meetings I have for the day The other thing I lo
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by zende 13y ago
ACH has a dispute system like credits cards. Credit cards have a dispute window of 120 days. Personal bank accounts have a dispute window of 60 days. Business bank accounts have a dispute window of 3 business days. The problem with disputes
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by zende 13y ago
We're still trying to figure out the right pricing and are discussing it openly ( https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2#issuecomme... ). The risk scales with the size of the transaction. Granted, the risk does not scale at the s
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by zende 13y ago
I'm sorry if we gave you that impression. All three founders have engineering degrees. I built the original version of the product, was the second engineer at Milo.com, and wrote DDoS prevention software in college. Mahmoud built high-frequ
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by zende 13y ago
I completely agree. I apologize if it came off that way. We launched payouts in February: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/balanced-payments-ach-api-o...
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by zende 13y ago
Balanced requires name, DOB, and address only to underwrite the recipient as a merchant to avoid the marketplace becoming an aggregator. It is still possible to make a next-day payout directly to a recipient without this information: cu
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by zende 13y ago
(I work at Balanced) Balanced ( https://balancedpayments.com ) provides a payouts solution for marketplaces like redditgifts, Crowdtilt, Fancy, Artsy, Visual.ly, and many others. The differences with Stripe include the money being available
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by zende 13y ago
The Balanced Payouts service has been available for some time. Our ACH Debit (pay with bank account) is in Beta however.
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by zende 13y ago
You can send money to debit cards using the ATM rails a la Pulse, STAR, etc. It's something we've explored at Balanced: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/32
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by zende 13y ago
It's been about 9 months now that Balanced started the approach towards openness: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues?direction=as... Building an open company wasn't part of the initial vision. It's something that we've embrac
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by zende 13y ago
pull requests welcome and much appreciated ;-) https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues you just reminded me of a mobile display issue on the blog: https://github.com/
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by zende 13y ago
Much of the frontend for the blog was done by github.com/joonas (not a Balanced employee): https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/pull/3
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Why Balanced is an open company(fastcolabs.com)
62 points by zende 13y ago|19 comments
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by zende 14y ago
Excited to have an incredible group of angel investors onboard!
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by zende 14y ago
Google's new design language handles this pretty well using "almost flat" design. They still have a rectangular button (no gradient or rounded corners), but there's a slight drop shadow.
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by zende 14y ago
We put a lot of work into this release. This covers about 15% of bank accounts. Here's more information on the blog post: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/introducing-balanced-same-d...
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On Rebranding: The Evolution of a Startup Identity(blog.balancedpayments.com)
22 points by zende 14y ago|3 comments
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by zende 14y ago
SWIFT or wire transfers are international and next-day at worst and intra-day at best, but it's really freakin' expensive—$15 vs. the 25¢ that Balanced charges. The worst part of SWIFT though is that the recipient also gets charged on the
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by zende 14y ago
Rap Genius is limited more by time than by money if anything. It would make more sense to throw money at the problem instead of people.
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by zende 14y ago
It's not that their that much weaker. You have 60 days as an individual to dispute a debit, but it's seriously painful. You will likely have to go into a branch and fill out a physical document. In comparison, Amex has a link that says "dis
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by zende 14y ago
You can always use HelloFax (same company) if you're interested in paying ;-). I get what you're saying though. B2B is not like building a consumer app. I'd rather pay as long as it's reasonable.
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by zende 14y ago
How do you "demonstrate one is out of touch reality"? That's just as difficult to define. My argument is that there's no black or white answer.

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