Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved

Re:Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved by chaseadam17 on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @05:54PM (#4816743)

Love this idea. We're going to implement a "general fund" profile soon which is essentially what you described above. Email idea is also great.

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Re:Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved by dmgrow on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @07:37PM (#4817038)

Have you guys met up with the Kiva team? This strikes me as such a similar model in many ways.

I imagine they would have an incredible amount of learning from the past several years that they would be willing to share. A lot of this has to do with perfecting the user experience for potential lenders / donors. It seems like you're doing a good job on this front but no doubt there's room for improvement.

I've been a loyal Kiva lender now for years and watched them grow to $375M in loans. I think you're on to something similar with tremendous potential.

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Re:Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved by kanamekun on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @09:17PM (#4817237)

Kiva was actually part of Adam's inspiration! http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680490/making-medical-care-affor...

Members of the Watsi team work for Kiva too (at least as of several months ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424745

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Re:Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved by dmgrow on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @10:12PM (#4817364)

Excellent - thanks for sharing! It's a great model and I'm excited to see it grow.

Of course, the nice thing about Kiva is that it is a loan, rather than a donation, which allows you to use the same initial investment to help lots of people again and again.

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Re:Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved by bhadra on Friday November 30, 2012 @07:41AM (#4852978)

Now that you have been a Kiva lender for years, you may help to understand whether Kiva actually works as mentioned in http://blogs.cgdev.org/open_book/2009/10/kiva-is-not-quite-w....

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