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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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graystevens·Jun 8, 2018

I've started to take a look at the binary that was uploaded - it seems it wasn't just Gitea that got hit by this, but also https://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org which too has a strange release associated with the repository. My findings as they go are being shoved into a blog post: https://grh.am/2018/a-look-at-the-compromised-gitea-release/

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waldir·Apr 22, 2015

I've been collecting info about this kind of companies for quite a while, and warmly welcomed the creation of the Open Company Initiative (http://opencompany.org) in 2013 -- co-founded, among others, by Chad Whitacre from Gittip/Gratipay, who holds a pretty strong stance regarding organizational transparency. Unfortunately, the model they've chosen for building up the directory is based on a specific pledge taken by the companies themselves, which makes community participation in expanding the list pretty much impossible (https://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/10...) So I decided to follow the example of the many awesome-x lists that have been sprouting up lately, and start a community-curated one for open companies, too. The list is by no means complete, so feel free to contribute your knowledge of open companies or ot

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her related resources that you think should be there.

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steveklabnik·Jan 23, 2014

Steve from Balanced here. I'm in charge of the API. You can look at this comparison in a few ways. We share a lot of the same investors: Both YC, SV Angel, a16z, etc. They've gotten a lot more funding than we have, and so have a bigger team. You get paid faster with Balanced: we have _same day_ payouts to Wells Fargo customers, and _next day_ payouts to any other bank. Stripe is seven days. Feature wise, we provide a lot of the same things, but Balanced has more. We support ACH debits AND credits, for example, and Stripe only supports credits. We're soon adding push-to-card as well. We have escrow, and let you choose how long to hold funds in it. Speaking of escrow, in general, we have lots of extra features for marketplaces, since that's our bread and butter. Stripe now has a marketplace product, Connect, but it basically requires all of

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your sellers to sign up for Stripe. Our customers tell us that white label is important, and so Balanced is 100% white labeled. We individually underwrite all sellers, and we give you full control over your descriptor, on a per-transaction basis. Our fee structure is 100% transparent, and the same for everyone. You can negotiate with Stripe on your rates, ours are just published publicly: https://www.balancedpayments.com/pricing In general, Balanced is striving to be as open and transparent as possible: new feature discussion is done in the open, on GitHub. As I just mentioned, our pricing is transparent. We're working with Gittip and several other companies to start the Open Company Initiative[1] to help promote general open-ness. Loving that internal transparency from Stripe with their emails. [2] To say some more good things about Stripe, they have launched in a few places internationally, and we are still US only. We can accept foreign credit cards, but merchants need to be in the US.[3] Hoping to fix that, regulations are hard. Stripe has a loyal fanbase for a reason: they do a great job. I really appreciate the clarity of their docs, for example. Patrick, I know you're as much of an HN junkie as I am: congrats on the raise. Let's all keep dragging the payments industry kicking and screaming into the future. ;) Here's some links from others, comparing the two of us: * http://blog.localon.com/2013/11/21/why-we-switched-from-stri... * http://blog.apixchange.com/2013/10/why-api-xchange-uses-bala... * http://www.quora.com/Balanced/How-does-Balanced-compare-agai... * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14289347/stripe-vs-balanc... As always, you can reach me here on at steve@balancedpayments.com to talk about any of this more. 1: http://opencompany.biz , though we just chipped in for .org: https://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/59 2: https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency 3: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23

In Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club