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Column is the company blog at column.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2022, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “Column – a chartered bank for developers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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88mentions?
25HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention column.com as a nationally chartered bank built for developers, with API-first banking products. Most comments are job posts or product mentions rather than comments on the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The only nationally chartered bank built to enable developers and builders to create new financial services.
Most-linked posts?
- /7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-09-13
- /careers4 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2022-08-02
- Column – a chartered bank for developers3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
- An employee-first equity structure for Silicon Valley3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-15
- /careers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-01
What Hacker News says?
They're using Column ( https://column.com/ ) under the hood, so more like Stripe (payments + Atlas) for non profits I think? Still very powerful and material value of course on top of the banking partner primitive.
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on “Ghostty is now non-profit”Submitted Column – a chartered bank for developers as a story · 825 points
HN discussionFintech dev here. The product looks incredibly good. What I absolutely love the most is the fact the web site immediately addresses people with a human language at the left and plain code at the right. No marketingspeak. Love it. However the title is a bit misleading. It says "a chartered bank for developers" while the correct title would be "a chartered bank for U.S. developers". I feel like in the IT community we…
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted Column built an issuer processor from scratch as a story · 31 points
HN discussionacquiring the chartered bank They seem to have bought Northern California National Bank in Chico, CA.[1] The Column web site doesn't mention it, but they still have a physical branch in Chico. The FDIC gives their web site as "norcalbank.com", although it does show the name change to Column. Their site has no street address and "domain name only" TLS certificate from Amazon, so you don't really know for sure that co…
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted An employee-first equity structure for Silicon Valley as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI like this, definitely will keep an eye on your service. You need a proof reader. https://column.com/card-programs/ Own your economics * You get 100% of interchange, control your unit economics, and build a company for scale. - * Unliked managed programs, we are built for scale and flexibility. + * Unlike managed programs, we are built for scale and flexibility. Developer-first card program - * We are developers at…
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted Column launches new unified FedNow and TCH RTP API as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI had a quick look through your docs, and it would be really great if Column allowed Entities to use identifiers other than SSN: https://column.com/docs/api/#entity/object
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted Debugging Equity as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThank you for the reply. One more question: is it possible to sign up as an institutional investor to buy loans originated on the platform alongside Column’s buy side? https://column.com/loan-purchase
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted Completing the banking stack: stablecoins, card issuing, multicurrency as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> must have taken many years and many, many millions of dollars I don't have any inside knowledge, and obviously you can burn many millions even with a small team but: "We started building Column in 2019 and launched in 2022." [0] "We’re only six engineers (seven if you count me…but I’m a weekend code pusher)" [1] [0] https://column.com/company/ [1] https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column/
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Submitted Debugging Equity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTheir docs lay out the list of regs: https://column.com/docs/guides/bank-accounts#compliance--leg...
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Yes, you can use Column to create and offer bank accounts as well as build debit/credit/charge programs. There's a part of the website that describes some common use cases https://column.com/docs/guides/#use-cases
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”A little off topic, but I find it amusing phone booths have been reinvented. Also funny they look like refrigerators: https://column.com/company Cool that a husband wife team is doing this, I wonder what their relationship is like.
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”> Create account numbers that point to a single bank account and create specific permissions and limits for each one. I love that; there are so many places that give a 6% discount for using ACH but I don't want to give out my bank account details willy-nilly --- If you have influence over it, I wouldn't recommend having https://status.column.com/uptime default to "Sandbox" since I doubt seriously that's what anyone…
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on “Column – a chartered bank for developers”Plaid founder's new startup column is building a bank from scratch for developers. https://column.com/
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on “Increase: Banking API”How do you plan to compete against https://column.com/ ?
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on “Increase: Banking API”Yes! We're obviously not the first to see the need! I think there are many engineers who are frustrated knowing the data and capabilities that exist in banking that aren't exposed programmatically. There are at least four (and I'm undoubtedly missing many!) interesting companies aiming to combine technology and a bank charter: - Luna[0]. - M1 Finance[1]. - Column[2]. - Increase[3]. Building a bank involves reading,…
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on “Increase: Banking API”heya! i'm casually interested in the space, and also have been tracking Column ( https://column.com/ ) to a distant observer, you look similar, but i'm sure there are real differences between you, so I'd love something like a "top 3 things to note" about Increase vs Column, in a least-getting-you-in-trouble way as possible - its hard to compare because i dont know what I don't know.
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on “Increase: Banking API”https://column.com/ For those that don’t know what Column is.
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on “Increase: Banking API”Column ( https://column.com/ ) | Software Eng (Product), Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Internal Tools) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies. Started by…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Column ( https://column.com/ ) | Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Infrastructure) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies. Started by the co-founder of Plaid, Column…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Would something like Column [0] be a solution here in regards to it being a Wells Fargo problem? [0] * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31109170 * https://column.com/
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on “Stripe is PayPal circa 2010”Column.com | REMOTE or Onsite | Full-time Column is the developer infrastructure bank. The only nationally chartered bank built to enable developers and builders to create new financial products. We're looking for engineers to help us build integration with ACH, Wire, Swift and Checks systems which we expose to the developers via API. We're a lean and experienced team. We like our current size of six engineers. For…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Column ( https://column.com/ ) | Product Software Engineer, Infrastructure Software Engineer, Techops Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full Time Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies. Started by the co-…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Column ( https://column.com/ ) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) Column is building the infrastructure that powers the US dollar globally. We're a software first company, but also own a nationally chartered bank that we've built from the ground up. We're currently processing trillions of dollars annually, supporting some of the la…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Column ( https://column.com/ ) | Software Eng (Infrastructure), Software Eng (Backend), Software Eng (Product) | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE) | Full Time Column is the first nationally chartered bank built from the ground up for developers. We provide an API first, modern banking experience for our customers, replacing the bloated middleware and legacy software that currently powers most financial companies. Started b…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”
