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…everybody is still writing API definitions which are only human-readable. Two worthy exceptions: - https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api - https://helloreverb.com/developers/swagger You can have self-describing messages without having…

comment by alexatkeplar · 2014-07-22 · in Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages

"I have sufficient funds in my marketplace" is defined here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/blob/master/feature... Given(/^I have sufficient funds in my marketplace$/) do step 'I have tokenized a card'…

comment by mtamizi · 2014-05-17 · in TDD your API

Here's an example of how we do it: The scenario: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/blob/master/feature... : Scenario: Push money to an existing debit card Given I have sufficient funds in my marketplace And I have a tokenized debit…

comment by mtamizi · 2014-05-16 · in TDD your API

…ways) for existing clients. There's quite a lot to learn from the Avro community in all this. [1] https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/tree/master/fixture... [2] http://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2014/05/13/introducing-sch... [3]…

comment by alexatkeplar · 2014-05-16 · in TDD your API

…to set a reasonable expectation. We'll learn more about the limits over time and document it here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/603

comment by mtamizi · 2014-05-15 · in Send money to a customer’s checking account using their debit card number

…Or you can email support@balancedpayments.com to expand on your thoughts here. Cheers! -jkw [1] https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/search?q=ach&ref=cm...

comment by jareau · 2014-04-24 · in How ACH works: A developer perspective

…where we talk about Balanced and paper checks, and this comment in particular is very insightful: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/69#issuecomm... Checks are also not reversible, which we feel is a significant drawback.…

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-03-24 · in Stripe: Marketplaces

Hey Jerome! I work at Balanced. We won't be supporting wire transfers: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/267 As our CEO says in that thread, given that we do same-day payouts to Wells Fargo and next-day payouts to all other…

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-03-24 · in Stripe: Marketplaces

I just left a comment regarding this on GitHub: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204#issuecom... (I work at Balanced and managed this partnership.)

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-02-20 · in Balanced Partners With Coinbase and Adds Bitcoin Support

…be easier for you and us. [1] https://github.com/balanced/www.balancedpayments.com/issues/... [2] https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23

comment by jareau · 2014-01-23 · in Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club

…github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/59 2: https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency 3: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-01-23 · in Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club

…We're interested in working with them to work around such things, but haven't been able to yet: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204 I've been heavily involved in Dogecoin, and I'd love to see BTC/LTC/DOGE payments, but…

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-01-22 · in Balanced Will Release an API to Push Money to Debit Cards

This was opened 11 months ago: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/268 But it appears it was updated just yesterday by someone with WP experience, so maybe it will be done soon? Would love to test it out.

comment by icelancer · 2014-01-17 · in Payments Startup Balanced (YC W11) Is Processing $370M a Year

We do! We haven't committed to a timeline, but you can track progress at these two links: * https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23 * https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/294 Also, we can accept credit card _payments_…

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-01-16 · in Payments Startup Balanced (YC W11) Is Processing $370M a Year

…and finally create the debit (wait for response). Couldn't agree more. Tracking this issue here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/472 . We will have news very shortly on some changes that you might be interested in. >> I…

comment by mahmoudimus · 2014-01-09 · in Stripe adds multiple account support

…can make that a bit easier. I've made an issue to track this on GitHub, let's talk more over there: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/472

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-01-09 · in Stripe adds multiple account support

…payments company for marketplaces, YC W11. You can track our plans for cryptocurrency support here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204 > In an online marketplace it's far far easier to accept bitcoins than credit cards…

comment by steveklabnik · 2013-12-31 · in Why I'm Interested in Bitcoin

…this? After some googling I found this: http://www.fuzenetwork.com/contact-us/ linked to from here https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/32 I tried to use their contact form but was redirected to what looks like a version of…

comment by joshstrange · 2013-11-19 · in How Square moves Cash

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Balanced is hiring engineer #6

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Balanced is hiring engineer #6

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Balanced is hiring Engineer #4

story by mahmoudimus · 2013-07-02 · 0 comments

…feedback provided by their customers (check out their API docs github to see the process in action, https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues ) Overall, I do think that Stripe and Balanced to have overlap in what they do for you…

comment by joonas · 2013-06-20 · in Working with the Stripe Payouts API

We're still trying to figure out the right pricing and are discussing it openly ( https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2#issuecomme... ). The risk scales with the size of the transaction. Granted, the risk does not scale at the…

comment by zende · 2013-06-05 · in Send payouts with Stripe

…debit cards using the ATM rails a la Pulse, STAR, etc. It's something we've explored at Balanced: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/32

comment by zende · 2013-05-21 · in Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

It's been about 9 months now that Balanced started the approach towards openness: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues?direction=as... Building an open company wasn't part of the initial vision. It's something that we've…

comment by zende · 2013-05-03 · in Why Balanced is an open company

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Balanced is looking for infrastructure engineers

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Balanced is hiring full-stack engineers

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Balanced is hiring engineers

story by mahmoudimus · 2013-04-08 · 0 comments

Congrats guys. How about tht international[1] now please. :) [1] https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23

comment by pulledpork · 2013-04-02 · in Andreessen Horowitz and Collab Fund Add to Balanced's $3.4M Seed Round

Not the same thing (since this isn't an API), but I like what balanced does: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api

comment by m3ntat · 2013-04-01 · in Building a Docs Site with Jekyll + GitHub Pages

…be and we think the community could benefit. Let us know if there's interest. Create an issue on https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/ and we'll see how to prioritize it.

comment by mahmoudimus · 2013-03-07 · in Why are payment forms so complicated?

…our developer community. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. You can read the whole thing here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2 I also left this comment on the original blog post: http://blog.mojotech.com/post/4422404472…

comment by jareau · 2013-02-28 · in MORE FEATURES WON’T SAVE Your PRODUCT

…outside of the US as well. We're discussing that topic here. Please let us know what you think: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23

comment by jareau · 2013-02-28 · in Balanced (YC W11) Adds Bank Payments to its P2P Payments Platform

…this soon. In the meantime, here's the github thread in which we discussed our new homepage design: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/264

comment by jareau · 2013-02-28 · in Debit bank accounts with Balanced Payments (YC W11)

…come to anything we liked. Would you mind chiming in with your thoughts on our github issue: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2#issuecomme...

comment by jareau · 2013-02-28 · in Balanced (YC W11) Adds Bank Payments to its P2P Payments Platform

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Balanced adds support for ACH debits

story by dpiers · 2013-02-22 · 0 comments

…feedback for a lot of things we do @ Balanced. For example, we've openly discussed pricing ( https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/48 ), etc. Everything's on https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api . We're trying a different…

comment by mahmoudimus · 2013-02-21 · in Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks

…that it's the right strategy going forward. We actually have an open github issue to support it: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204 . You should take a look and read the comments there -- they're very interesting.…

comment by mahmoudimus · 2013-02-21 · in Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks

Yeah, we've discussed this a lot on our github repo: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2 What size transactions are you planning?

comment by jareau · 2013-02-14 · in Announcing Balanced Payouts (YC W11)

We're discussing international payouts on our Github repo. Please add your 2¢ here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/44

comment by jareau · 2013-02-14 · in Announcing Balanced Payouts (YC W11)

…now, we're limited to the US, but we're actively looking into options for international payouts: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/44

comment by jareau · 2013-02-14 · in Announcing Balanced Payouts (YC W11)

Balanced is discussing this here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2 We're thinking we'll have a beta in a few weeks time.

comment by mahmoudimus · 2013-01-17 · in P2P banks, 1 line of code

…that this is a highly demanded feature. We've discussed it at length with our community on github: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2

comment by jareau · 2013-01-08 · in Show HN: One curl command issues next-day ACH deposit

…runs like an open source project, so anything you might have thoughts on, we discuss publicly here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api We are also on IRC providing real-time support: irc.freenode.net #balanced

comment by mahmoudimus · 2013-01-08 · in Show HN: One curl command issues next-day ACH deposit

conroy, thanks for your comment! Can we open an issue on https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api so we can track this? We'd be happy to help with the code contribution as well.

comment by mahmoudimus · 2012-12-05 · in Why Stashboard and Pingdom Weren't Enough: The Evolution of a Status Page

…world. Payouts currently require a US bank account > 23:05 <mjallday> buro9: you can subscribe to https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/23 to get updates when make we progress on the international payouts

comment by buro9 · 2012-12-05 · in Why I Love Balanced

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Support Bitcoin as a payout method?

story by kirillzubovsky · 2012-11-27 · 0 comments

…Bitcoin as a payout method. We use GitHub to track feature requests, so I created a GitHub issue ( https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204 ) for Bitcoin. I'd love to get feedback. I also submitted the GitHub issue to HN (…

comment by zende · 2012-11-26 · in Payments Startup Balanced Innovates In Wrong Direction

Conversion started as a result of Jon Matonis' article: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/44

comment by zende · 2012-11-26 · in Request for Balanced to support Bitcoin as a payout method

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Request for Balanced to support Bitcoin as a payout method

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