Open sourcing our neobank for nonprofits has been years in the making. We shared our initial launch here back in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257241). Today, I’m happy to announce that our Ruby on Rails codebase is public on GitHub!
Open sourcing our neobank for nonprofits has been years in the making. We shared our initial launch here back in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257241). Today, I’m happy to announce that our Ruby on Rails codebase is public on GitHub!
That's cool. What's your motivation here? Just to build cool stuff, or is this a business? No agenda just wondering.
Great stuff, just wondering how fast there will be a major security hole. Has HCB been audited by any third party security vendors yet?
Yes - we've worked with a third party security advisors to make this happen!
If this stuff does interest you or anyone else here, we'd always welcome advice / support. I had some great conversations with folks over the summer embarking on this project. sam [at] hackclub [dot] com if anyone is interested.
Also, FYI for anyone: https://github.com/hackclub/hcb/blob/main/SECURITY.md
Thanks! We started as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on after-school programming clubs and high school hackathons. We were working with high schoolers across the country and noticed that teenagers lacked the necessary financial infrastructure to run in-person events. For example, receiving money from a sponsor to buy pizza. We built HCB to give them essential tools like a donation page, invoicing system, and debit cards.
Since then, it's grown to a platform that supports not only high school hackathons, but nearly any nonprofit-related mission, including robotic teams and local food banks. We're still an educational nonprofit centered around high school coding clubs, but HCB is a tool we maintain to better empower these high schoolers.