I know I've beaten this drum on HN in the past, but one of the things I most love about Watsi is that you can set up a monthly automatic donation: <a href="https://watsi.org/monthly" rel="nofollow">https://watsi.org/monthly</a> This makes it absolutely trivial to set it and help someone out every month, without having to do anything yourself (and thus, no way to forget it!)<p>They really do amazing work; congrats on two years, guys.
Chase, Watsi's founder, spoke at start up school last year.<p>Donate first, then watch his talk and then donate again. Make sure you look for the tip option on the checkout page if you want to help cover Watsi's operational costs.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ</a>
A problem with internationalization: One difficulty with wanting to contribute to projects like this is that you don't get tax credits on donations outside of your home country, which means I or my business cannot contribute any significant amount. I understand it would be a mountain of paperwork (and probably a loss in terms of accounting costs) for Watsi to be registered as a non-profit in every country.
I don't often tear up reading something posted on HN, let alone a company's website...<p>I really wish my mobile internet was good enough to watch Chase's talk right now.<p>Edit: Also want to express that I'm proud of the Humble Bundle community! The games industry has made us lose faith in humanity a bit recently. It is heartwarming to hear we're regaining ground.
What a wonderful thing to have created. I know I'm just some random dude on the internet, but you should all be incredibly proud of yourselves. I've been meaning to start donating for some time now, and the $50-to-funded thing pushed me to do it.<p>The act of funding a person rather than an organisation really connects me with the importance of giving the gift - it de-abstracts the situation somehow, and brings home the fact that for not-that-much-really money you can completely change someone's life.
In celebration, most of the patients on their website are just $50 away from being funded: <a href="https://watsi.org/" rel="nofollow">https://watsi.org/</a>. Go fund one of them!
Watsi is incredible. I really love what they do and envy those who created it. It's also a nice surprise to see Watsi and I share the same birthday.<p>I'm a 26 year old, somewhat privileged white male. I have accomplished nothing in life. I'm still struggling to graduate from college which I'd spent 6 years of my life for. I get depressed thinking about it, and just want to dedicate everything I have as a human being to work for some humanitarian organization similar to Watsi so I could feel like I'm good for something. Of course, then I realize these organizations don't exist to help privileged people like me to figure out what we want in life, but to help people who have real problems. I'm such a cliche. I applaud Watsi team not because they're a bunch of wonderful people who have great talent, but because they wanted to use their talent to make the world a better place. I wish I had your courage.<p>I'll donate whenever I can, which doesn't amount to much, but every bit helps. I hope.<p>PS: This thread should be about Watsi but I couldn't help share what I feel. I hope you don't take it the wrong way. Thank you.
I am a student in Boston, born and raised in El Salvador, and I can attest the extent to which organizations like Watsi are helping save the lives of people like you and me. Chase, I'm giving up a cup of coffee a week; that's twenty bucks you can count on.
Awesome, for me Watsi is one of the most inspirational startups right now. Reminds me that if someone can, doing amazing startups is the right thing to do!