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Mercury
Company blog · mercury.com/blog · on HN as MaxGabrielstartupsbusiness
Mercury is the company blog at mercury.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2020, 57 different Hacker News readers have linked it 102 times, most often “Mercury offers $1M FDIC Insurance”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link mercury.com as a business bank for startups, a job board, and an example of a Haskell-backed fintech. Most comments mention the banking product or hiring, not the site's writing.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- one commenter says they like the slider puzzle built into the 404 page1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
Most-linked posts?
- Mercury offers $1M FDIC Insurance11 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2020-04-17
- /10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2020-09-16
- /jobs3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-02-04
- /about3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-13
- Mercury Treasury3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-07
- /security2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-11
- SAFEs by Mercury, for fundraising integrated with your banking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-17
- Mercury Raise – apps opened to help raise seed/A/DTC rounds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-23
- /perks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
What Hacker News says?
Evolve Bank & Trust will probably be the bank most of these funds sit in [0]. With this partnership, and their Mercury Bank partnership [1], they've positioned themselves very well. For a small bank out of Memphis [2], this is quite impressive. [0]: https://stripe.com/treasury#request-invite [1]: https://mercury.com/ [2]: https://www.getevolved.com/contact/locations/
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on “Stripe Treasury”Submitted Mercury Personal: powerful personal banking as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI've had good luck with https://mercury.com for business banking.
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on “Stripe Treasury”Submitted Mercury defeats phishing with device verification as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMake the link in the email https://mercury.com/something instead of https://mailgun.com/something (which then redirects to https://mercury.com/something ). Or (in addition to, or instead of, a hyperlink) provide a 6-10 digit numeric or alphanumeric code that could be copied out of the email message into a form field on the signin screen.
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on “Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option”Submitted Mercury Personal Banking as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI’m the CTO of Mercury You shouldn’t get the device verification requirement if you’ve used the device before (we store a permanent cookie to check this) or for the same IP. Any chance your cookies are being cleared regularly? We added this after attackers created clones of http://mercury.com and took out Google ads for it. When customers entered their password and TOTP on the phishing site, the phisher would use th…
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on “Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option”Submitted Mercury IO – The corporate card for smooth scaling as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMercury | Multiple Engineering Roles | Full Time | Remote Mercury is a fintech company focused on reimagining the banking* experience for startups. We have multiple roles available within engineering with more coming soon - both IC and Manager positions. A couple of current openings highlighted below, but all can be found and applied to at https://mercury.com/jobs . Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Security | Engineering…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Haskell back end engineering internship as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks for the details Tyler. Exporting - From my understanding the CSV format matches the QB specification. Are you saying that it matching the filters is an issue or that the format is incorrect. Treasury for nonprofits - We only just launched Treasury (in December) and nonprofits are a relatively small part of our business so this hadn't come up during our alpha. I am going to investigate why our clearing house d…
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on “Simple Bank Is Closing”Submitted Mercury Vault as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI’m sorry but what? Was this in the US? Because the intro was “oppressive regime,” and then you gave an example of an oppressive regime, and now I’m realizing you might very well be in the US. I’m just shocked; never considered this could happen. Was this related to your employer, and… Well, I should just ask rather than guess :) thank you for sharing, and I’m really sorry that happened. One of the best decisions I’…
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on “Bitcoin is a Ponzi”Submitted Our new credit card – IO as a story · 4 points
HN discussionInterestingly, Mercury [0] is VC-backed, and their backend is entirely Haskell. In an interview [1], their CTO mentions that it’s actually quite easy to hire for Haskell, as the demand is much lower than the supply, and, as he slyly puts it, “interest in Haskell acts as a decent proxy for baseline developer quality.” So while the pool is larger for JS/TS and Python, that may not always be beneficial. [0]: https://me…
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on “Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle”Submitted Learn Haskell in Two Weeks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMercury | React+Typescript; Haskell Engineer; DevOps | REMOTE (US and Canada) or Onsite (SF/Portland/Toronto) | Full-time Mercury (www.mercury.com) is building a bank for startups. We are currently 50+ employees and are backed by top tier investors (A16Z, CRV, and more). Frontend: React, Typescript, Redux; Backend: Haskell, Yesod, Persistent; Operations: Nix, Postgres, AWS; Mobile: Swift, Kotlin We are hiring fronte…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Documenting Your Database Schema as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe other option is to use Stripe Atlas[1] to start an LLC and get a Bank account from Mercury[2]. Most other banks will need you to be physically present stateside unless you are part of an institute that takes care of that (YC, On Deck, etc.) 1. https://stripe.com/atlas 2. https://mercury.com
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on “Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job”Submitted Mercury Books – Accounting Software Built into Your Bank Account as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMercury (www.mercury.com) | Frontend (React + Typescript), Android, Haskell Engineer, Product Designer, BD, Social Media | REMOTE or San Francisco, CA/Portland, OR/Toronto, ON | Full-time Mercury (mercury.com) is building banking products for startups. We are currently 70 people and are backed by top tier investors (A16Z, CRV, and more). We are very open to remote team members (in US and Canada), and we have locatio…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted The possibilities are vibe coded as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWork at Mercury [0]. They train folks who haven’t used Haskell before. [0] https://mercury.com/jobs
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on “I would like a job writing Haskell”Submitted Mercury Software Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMercury | React+Typescript, Haskell Engineer, Support, BD | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE (US) Mercury (mercury.com) is building banking products for startups. We are currently ~30 people and have raised $26m from top tier investors (A16Z, CRV, and more). We launched less than a year ago (April 2019) and have 5k+ happy customers. This is my 4th company. My previous company, Heyzap, was YC09, was f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted 2023 Debit Card Changes at Mercury Bank as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://mercury.com
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on “GHC now runs in the browser”Submitted How I CEO: On taking advice as a leader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://mercury.com
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on “GHC now runs in the browser”Submitted Mercury Raise – apps opened to help raise seed/A/DTC rounds as a story · 2 points
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