Watsi is the first global crowdfunding platform for medical care. We'd love your feedback on the site. We just launched it today!
Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
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Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#2brilliant idea, specially with the update on the outcome of the treatment. hope this succeeds
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#3brilliant idea, specially with the update on the outcome of the treatment. hope this succeeds
Thank you bezaorj! We've all donated our time to build this, and its been a year in the making. We're excited to see how it goes!
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#4A very successful launch with an incredible objective (one profile already funded today). This is exciting stuff!
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#5One of the most powerful "About" pages I've seen:
>>The instant she opened the folder everything came together. There was a full-sized photograph paper clipped to the inside left cover and a document stapled to the right. The photograph showed a young boy with an incision across the width of his iodine-stained chest. The document to the right outlined the patient’s medical condition. The young boy was her son.
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#6One of the most powerful "About" pages I've seen: >>The instant she opened the folder everything came together. There was a full-sized photograph paper clipped to the inside left cover and a document stapled to the right. The photograph showed a young boy with an incision across the width of his iodine-stained chest. The document to the right outlined the patient’s medical condition. The young boy was her son.
Not as powerful if you have seen that same scene performed by a scammer before :(
Thinking of it, it would be just as amazing (and ironic) if the woman's story was a scam too. Something about fate/karma or nature balancing itself.
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#7One of the most powerful "About" pages I've seen: >>The instant she opened the folder everything came together. There was a full-sized photograph paper clipped to the inside left cover and a document stapled to the right. The photograph showed a young boy with an incision across the width of his iodine-stained chest. The document to the right outlined the patient’s medical condition. The young boy was her son.
Thanks! We really appreciate the feedback. It's been a year and eight months since that day on the bus, and we've finally got the platform up!
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#8brilliant idea, specially with the update on the outcome of the treatment. hope this succeeds
Thank you bezaorj! We've all donated our time to build this, and its been a year in the making. We're excited to see how it goes!
I think this has a lot of potential, you just need a good catalyst to accelerate this beginning process would be a retweet by a person with lots of followers... an indie musician that I know got retweeted by howard stern (5+ million followers) and his song (that was really good) went viral. The idea of the website is really good as well, people just need to discover your website. I would look for any musician, actor that has 500k+ followers and try to get a retweet from him and then move to bigger fishes...
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#9Great work! Landing looks clean and within 15 seconds I know exactly what the core message and values are. I appreciate the work you guys have done to make it as transparent as possible as I know that is a major point of contention when it comes to crowdfunding.
Small nit: Is it just me or is the "email" button on the profile page actually popping up the share modal on hover?
Re: Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives
#10Great idea!
Questions: how do you select who gets on the site? What protections are in place to prevent scammers listing fake illnesses? What proof is required before funding is handed over? Is funding handed to patient or doctor or someone else??