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Hi, I am Sonam, and I work at Watsi. We'll start with the BBB review soon. We hadn't previously because of the fee, but that is only for the seal, so we'd love to have Watsi listed with them in the future. In the meantime, you can check us out on Charity Navigator, Candid, or see all of our financials in our Transparency Doc that we publish.

This is really helpful feedback - our team will get to work on making this easier to find. Thanks for joining in and for all the kindness!

We'd love to have you back! Just let us know and we can turn off the patient updates for you anytime.

THANK YOU! Welcome to Watsi!

We'd love to have GiveWell evaluate Watsi. They often recommend global health interventions because every dollar goes incredibly far in saving lives. In the meantime, here's what a few (independent) experts have said about investing in access to surgery:

• A review across 23 LMICs found that low-complexity surgeries (e.g., appendectomy, hernia repair) cost as little as $17 per Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) averted (Mengistie et al., 2025). Overall, 89% of surgical procedures studied were cost-effective, and 76% were “very cost-effective” based on GDP thresholds (Ifeanyichi et al., 2024). • Essential surgery often achieves costs per DALY well below standard willingness-to-pay thresholds and can be more valuable than essential drugs or vaccines on a per-DALY basis (Mengistie et al., 2025). Low-complexity surgical interventions compare favorably to—and are sometimes more cost-effective than—interventions such as HIV antiretroviral therapy, family planning, and TB vaccinations (Ifeanyichi et al., 2024).

Thank you aaur0 - you have no idea how much this means to us. Grateful for ever ounce of good news and good health we can spread in this world.

So awesome to hear - thank you! Hoping others will join in on watsi.org to help too. We want giving to be a bigger and more meaningful part of our day to day lives and to do this, it helps to always know and trust the impact you are making.

Your support every month in our Universal Fund means the world to us! This consistency and reliability helps us plan ahead, show up faster for patients in need, and grow to reach new hospitals and communities.

Watsi (YC W13) | https://watsi.org | Lead Software Engineer | Part-Time (75%) | Remote

Watsi is a nonprofit that leverages technology to finance healthcare for those in need around the world. At Watsi, we’re excited about bringing people together to do good and have been a leader in the tech for good movement since our founding in 2012. We put radical transparency at the heart of what we do and ensure 100% of public donations on watsi.org directly fund healthcare. We’re a small, remote-first team that believes everyone deserves access to healthcare.

Learn more about this position at https://blog.watsi.org/were-hiring-a-lead-software-engineer.

If this sounds exciting to you, please send your resume and a bit about why you’re interested in Watsi to [email protected] with “Lead Software Engineer (Your First Initial and Last Name) HackerNews” in the subject line. We can’t wait to hear from you!