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Up Blog
Company blog · up.com.au/blogbusinessdesign
Up Blog is the company blog at up.com.au, writing about business and design. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Up Banking Development Roadmap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Up's blog for its account of a software company partnering with Bendigo Bank on core banking. Other comments discuss Up's savings interest rates and pricing, not the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We’re a bank built to give, not take—designing tools that put you in control of your financial future. Driven by free-thinkers, not bankers, we’re redefining modern banking for over 1 million Aussies.
Most-linked posts?
- Up Banking Development Roadmap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-08
- /pricing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-22
What Hacker News says?
An example that strikes me as a stepping stone towards this (although, I believe, a little less clear cut) is Up in Australia, a partnership between a software company and Bendigo Bank, e.g. https://up.com.au/blog/up-cycling-core-banking/
Comment linking /blog/up-cycling-core-banking/
on “Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access”Submitted Designing Up Banking as a story · 112 points
HN discussionThere is no lowering of your rates if you have too much. It's just that the bonus interest rate only applies to the first $50k you have in your Saver accounts (cumulative). I.e. if you have $51k, you'll only get the bonus interest rate on $50k of that. The remaining $1k only gets the base interest rate. You can see more on the pricing page [1] Disclosure: Up employee. Not financial advice, etc, etc. [1]: https://up.…
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Designing Up Banking”Submitted Up Banking Development Roadmap as a story · 5 points
HN discussionUp says they are .1% without the bonus. "Interest rate Up to 1.60% p.a. (base 0.10% p.a. and bonus 1.50% p.a - details below)" from https://up.com.au/pricing/ .1% does indeed sound pretty awful.
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Designing Up Banking”Submitted Building Saver Insights: Turning particles into a graph as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tree of Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussion