davidajackson 3 days ago

That's cool. What's your motivation here? Just to build cool stuff, or is this a business? No agenda just wondering.

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garyhtou 3 days ago

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.