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Watsi
Company blog · blog.watsi.orghealthstartups
Watsi is the company blog at blog.watsi.org, writing about health and startups. Since 2012, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link Watsi's blog posts on its nonprofit healthcare funding, offline-first engineering, and Watsi Coverage, mostly as references. One commenter suggests a Netflix and global health article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We're sharing stories, news, and opinions from our journey to bring healthcare to every person on the planet.
Most-linked posts?
- Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-01
- The surprising role of Netflix in global health2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-04
- How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-18
- /engineers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-02
What Hacker News says?
Watsi | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-site preferred We're looking for mission-driven, full-stack engineers to join our team. Watsi is a San Francisco-based nonprofit building technology to finance universal healthcare. We’re a small, agile team united by the belief that everyone deserves healthcare, and motivated by the opportunity to use technology as a massive lever for positive change in the world. So far,…
Comment linking /engineers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research as a story · 564 points
HN discussionYou might like this article: http://blog.watsi.org/netflix-and-global-health/
Comment linking /netflix-and-global-health/
on “When the U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages”Submitted An Early Retirement as a story · 303 points
HN discussionGrace from Watsi here. I totally understand where you're coming from based on how the post is written - our fault for being hyperbolic. Of course, we would never walk through a hospital and record people without their explicit permission. Patient privacy is something we take really seriously. It is so important to us that Watsi funds cases regardless of whether or not the patient wants to publicly share their story…
Comment linking /post/62445601517/patient-privacy
on “A dose of perspective”- pg · 2013-02-28
Submitted The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient as a story · 283 points
HN discussion If this sounds fun, we’re hiring a senior engineer: http://blog.watsi.org/engineers/
Comment linking /engineers/
on “How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email”Submitted Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round' as a story · 240 points
HN discussionWatsi guarantees funding for every patient profile that's accepted, so donor bias doesn't impact who receives care and who doesn't. ( http://blog.watsi.org/post/43199420898/watsis-operational-pr... )
Comment linking /post/43199420898/watsis-operational-process-version-2-0
on “PG chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat”Submitted Announcing Our $3.5M Philanthropic Growth Round as a story · 160 points
HN discussionWatsi (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…
Comment linking /were-hiring-a-lead-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)”Submitted How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email as a story · 135 points
HN discussionHave you considered partnering with Watsi.org to provide EMR functionality for their third world universal healthcare project? http://blog.watsi.org/watsi-coverage/
Comment linking /watsi-coverage/
on “OpenEMR is Accepting Donations on OpenCollective”Submitted Watsi.org: Dealing with donation fraud as a story · 14 points
HN discussionBefore/after here: http://blog.watsi.org/post/85923886351/introducing-our-new-l...
Comment linking /post/85923886351/introducing-our-new-logo
on “Introducing Watsi's new logo”Submitted Watsi (YC W13) launches health coverage as a story · 14 points
HN discussionWatsi (YC non profit) ia tackling this in fairly extreme conditions: https://blog.watsi.org/engineering-challenges/
Comment linking /engineering-challenges/
on “Ask HN: How are you handling offline-first data?”Submitted Optimization by Accident as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSorry if our wording was confusing. We guarantee funding for every patient profile we accept before posting it online. We adopted this process based on feedback from our Medical Partners. If you're interested, you can find more info in our FAQ and on our blog. FAQ: https://watsi.org/faq#how-do-the-donation-logistics-work Blog: http://blog.watsi.org/post/43199420898/watsis-operational-pr...
Comment linking /post/43199420898/watsis-operational-process-version-2-0
on a deleted threadSubmitted Watsi's Life-Saving API: Available on the Segment Platform as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meet the all-woman team of Cambodian surgeons changing the face of healthcare as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Premal Shah joined our board as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What 7,000 Patients Say as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying yes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond this refugee camp, life goes on as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How patients’ stories get from rural clinics to donors’ desktops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Watsi built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue in Kenya as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The surprising role of Netflix in global health as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Watsi is hiring an engineer to bring healthcare to millions as a story · 2 points
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