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Each blog entry will contain a title, date, author, tag(s), and the ability to tweet or post to Hacker News for comments.

It should have a little pencil on it or something that allows people to view and edit the blog.

Like the emberjs blog here: http://emberjs.com/api/

This is an engineering blog, I want syntax highlighting!

From balanced/www.balancedpayments.com#107

From a Balanced customer:

I wanted to add your guys' blog to my google reader. But when I add blog.balancedpayments.com to my reader, it can't find a link. And when I do blog.balancedpayments.com/feed/ I also don't get anything.

Do you have a feed set up?

Chrome

Safari

Inspired by this conversation. I think it would be good for Balanced to write a blog post further describing our value prop.

Answer the following questions:

1. How does Balanced make transfers instant?
2. What does "instant" mean?
3. Why do instant transfers matter?

Needs something like <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"> I think.

Currently zooms out on mobile devices and looks like

http://www.reddit.com/buttons

I recommend the last one under commonly used buttons

https://blog.balancedpayments.com/

EmberJS has been getting lot of traction recently. Balanced is excited to tinker with the idea of a EmberJS Hackathon in their SF office. Please provide your thoughts and feedback on what you might expect going into it.

PS: Based on comment by @mahmoudimus in July Ember SF Meetup

links to index.html, should link to /

Spawned by @matin and @cristinacordova's discussion on HN:

Is there a way Balanced and Stripe can share information to optimize pricing schemes and cost savings for customers?

No one uses Google+.

HN button code: https://github.com/igrigorik/hackernews-button

This is consistent with the design in #1.

Can't access any old articles.

1. Go to blog.balancedpayments.com
2. Click on 2014
3. Select 2013

Nothing happens.

The expected behavior would be to show blog posts only from 2013.

Blog landing page:
Keep the same font sizes as the full 1020px width when you scale down to the 320px version.

Make all changes outlined in pink.

Blog post page:
Use same font sizes as the full 1020px width when you scale down to the 320px version except for the blog title.

Blog title:
font-size: 26px; (previously 32px)
line-height: 32px;

Change subhead and body copy sizes for both 1020px version and 320 px version:

Subhead:
font-size: 16px; (previously 18px)
line-height: 20px;

Body:
font-size: 14px; (previously 15px)
line-height: 18px;

Make all changes outlined in pink.

From a customer: "Hi, my feed reader doesn't like the errors in your RSS feed. :)"

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.balancedpayments.com%2Ffeed.xml

Some notes for the blog post:

Supported networks

• NYCE. Includes Chase
• SHAZAM => "nearly 1,500 community banks"
• STAR
• Pulse
• Maestro

1. Cards using the above networks clear within 10 mins (including nights and on business days). These network account for 65% – 70% of debit cards
2. Other cards take 1 – 2 business days to clear
3. Announce push to card page and outline the github progress section
4. Define timeline when customers can start integrating
5. Define timeline when customers can start processing

@mahmoudimus has graciously suggested a distributed Google Hangout to share some of Balanced's learnings about building the platform.

I thought Balanced's REST API is a great example of a truly RESTful API done right, so I'd like to learn about the design inspiration, how the data models look like behind the scene, what they did with ElasticSearch, what they liked/didn't like about it etc.

Surely I'm not alone!

Balanced has been receiving some interest lately to discuss supporting cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin and Bitcoin more seriously. I propose we host an event to discuss the topic. This issue is to discuss logistics and planning.

EDIT: To be clear, this is more of a general cryptocurrency event than some sort of 'plan how @balanced can implement cryptocurrencies' event.

We currently don't have an easy way of finding all the great articles covering Balanced

It's annoying having to vagrant ssh and then jekyll serve. This should be done for me.


A few people on the internets have noticed a lot of competition in the payments space lately. Exhibits A, B, & C.

I thought it would be fun to get the CEOs of the 3 Bay Area-based YC payment companies on a panel together to talk payments: Matin Tamizi, Balanced; Patrick Collison, Stripe; Bill Clerico; WePay.

Event could be hosted at Balanced HQ in SOMA, SF. Some weekday evening in April or May.

Save the Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, starting at 6:30 pm

Location:
Balanced HQ
965 Mission St.
STE 425
San Francisco, CA 94103

Schedule:

6:30 - 7:00 Drinks, warmup
7:00 - 8:15 Moderated panel discussion on "Open Business"
8:15 - ???? Drinks

Moderator: Diane Bisgeier, Program Manager, Mozilla WebFWD

Panelists:

• Chase Adam, Co-Founder/Vision, Watsi
• Jaisen Mathai, Founder, Trovebox
• Matin Tamizi, Co-Founder and CEO, Balanced
• Chad Whitacre, Founder, Gittip

Topic: "Open Business"

In his landmark book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond concludes:

I expect the open-source movement to have essentially won its point about software within three to five years (that is, by 2003–2005). Once that is accomplished, and the results have been manifest for a while, they will become part of the background culture of non-programmers. At that point it will become more appropriate to try to leverage open-source insights in wider domains.

He was basically right, and projects such as Wikipedia and PLoS ONE have amply demonstrated by now that "open-source insights" can indeed be applied beyond software. Just how far can these insights extend into the products we build? Can these insights extend even further than our products into our business models themselves?