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Transcend
Company blog · transcend.io/blogbusinesssecurity
Transcend is the company blog at transcend.io, writing about business and security. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Transcend – The automation system for GDPR data subject requests”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Transcend's blog, mainly its 'defeating cookie banners' post, as a way to handle consent and tracking without immediate prompts. Most comments are company promotions or job posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Transcend is the only real-time data governance and decision layer that answers “Can I use this data?” to unblock AI, agentic, and first-party data initiatives.
Most-linked posts?
- Transcend – The automation system for GDPR data subject requests3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-05-01
- /product2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I'm using Pulumi in production pretty heavily for a bunch of different app types (ECS, EKS, CloudFront, CloudFlare, Vault, Datadog monitors, Lambdas of all types, EC2s with ASGs, etc.), it's reasonably mature enough. As mentioned in the other comment, the most commonly used providers for terraform are "bridged" to pulumi, so the maturity is nearly identical to Terraform. I don't really use Pulumi's pre-built modules…
Comment linking /blog/use-terraform-pulumi-together-migrate-infrastructure-tooling
on “Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret”Submitted Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp as a story · 137 points
HN discussionhttps://transcend.io | San Francisco | Full Stack Developers - All Levels | Full-time (React + Node) | ONSITE in San Francisco | Interns welcome Transcend is a privacy compliance toolkit that helps companies give their customers the ability to access or delete their personal data (a requirement under the GDPR). On the frontend, we’re building a standard privacy dashboard, located at privacy.<company>.com. This is th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Defeating Cookie Banners as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSounds like you need a Data Privacy Infrastructure provider so you don't have to worry about the implementation details. The startup I'm working at, https://transcend.io , offers that.
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on “Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law”Submitted Largest GDPR fines surpass $1.3B as a story · 59 points
HN discussionTranscend ( https://transcend.io/product ) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Onsite Transcend helps companies give their customers control over their personal data. That includes giving you the ability to export or delete your personal data from company systems. We provide the infrastructure to manage personal data wherever it’s stored, and the interface for consumers to make choices about how t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Enhancing the Terraform Experience: Why We Use Terragrunt as a story · 59 points
HN discussionTranscend | SF, Seattle, MN, General US-based Remote People deserve control over their personal data. Transcend builds data privacy infrastructure that empowers individuals to reclaim that control and helps companies comply with global data privacy laws. We’re backed by Accel, growing fast, and are serving some of the most iconic brands in the world. We believe that turning the principles of data privacy into practi…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted Show HN: Consent management, reinvented as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI'm working on a zero-configuration consent manager: https://transcend.io/consent-manager (blog post coming soon!) What makes our consent manager stand out is that it records all attempted tracking events and can replay the events later once consented. This helps site owners capture the entire user journey through their site.
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on “The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)”Submitted Hassle-free frontends in AWS with Terraform and GitHub Actions as a story · 21 points
HN discussionTranscend ( https://transcend.io ) | San Francisco, CA | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time or Contract | Onsite Come build the future of privacy at Transcend. We build Data Privacy Infrastructure that empowers individuals to reclaim control of their data and helps companies comply with global data privacy laws. We’re backed by Accel, growing fast, and are serving some of the most iconic brands in the world. Our s…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Engineering a consent sandbox to eliminate annoying pop-ups and dark patterns as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThere is a solution which balances site owners' need to track with a respectful consent UX (e.g. no immediate consent prompt): https://transcend.io/blog/defeating-cookie-banners Many sites prompt right away because they want to begin tracking right away. Transcend Consent transparently converts all unconsented web tracker emissions into local tracking, which can be replayed later with consent. Instead of prompting f…
Comment linking /blog/defeating-cookie-banners
on “Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?”Submitted Accelerate your deploys with these 5 CircleCI optimizations as a story · 15 points
HN discussionTranscend ( https://transcend.io/product ) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Onsite We’re hiring engineers that feel morally driven to work on an important product. We believe that turning the principles of data privacy into exercisable human rights is one of the most high-impact ways we can spend our time. Transcend builds privacy infrastructure that helps consumers reclaim control of their dat…
Comment linking /product
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted How to implement Lambda Edge functions in Terraform as a story · 14 points
HN discussionTranscend ( https://transcend.io/product ) | San Francisco, CA | Senior Software Engineers | Full-time | Onsite People deserve control over their personal data. Transcend builds privacy infrastructure that helps consumers reclaim control of their data and makes it easy for software teams to comply with global data privacy laws. We’re a small but mighty team. We’re well funded by renowned venture capital firms such a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)”Submitted Keep Sensitive Values out of your logs with types as a story · 12 points
HN discussionTranscend ( https://transcend.io ) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite People deserve control over their personal data. Transcend builds data privacy infrastructure that empowers individuals to reclaim control of their data and helps companies comply with global data privacy laws. We’re well funded by renowned venture capital firms including Accel, and are already attracting interest from so…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted How to use Terraform and Pulumi together to migrate infrastructure tooling as a story · 11 points
HN discussionTranscend ( https://transcend.io ) | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite People deserve control over their personal data. Transcend builds privacy infrastructure that empowers individuals to reclaim control of their data and helps companies comply with global data privacy laws. We’re well funded by renowned venture capital firms including Accel, and are already attracting interest from some of…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted Our journey to a serverless architecture with Lambdas as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTranscend | Sales Engineer | Remote (USA - PST, MT) | Full time Company: Fast growing disruptor in data privacy, Transcend is a privacy platform that empowers brands to enhance regulatory stances for the laws of tomorrow and improve customer relationships through respectful and compliant data transparency, consent, and control. Backed by Accel, Index, 01A, StepStone Group, and HighlandX growing fast, and are serving…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)”Submitted Unique Features of Transcend’s Consent Manager as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe company I founded helps companies increase transparency and controls for their end-users, make it more clear where your data is going and making it easier for you to actually make a decision on whether you want your data going to third parties https://transcend.io/product
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on “Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’”Submitted A case for using Terraform open-source modules as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> This is to protect against hostile environments blocking function calls by polluting prototypes? Correct. I go into more detail about into our problem space and use cases here: https://transcend.io/blog/defeating-cookie-banners
Comment linking /blog/defeating-cookie-banners
on “How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind”Submitted A Terraform Provider for Transcend as a story · 5 points
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