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I mentioned this before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816337), but I haven't seen it implemented and think it's worth repeating:

I love what you guys are doing and hope you can fund hundreds of these at a time. But, right now there's only six people who I can donate to. I want to support the organization as well, to make sure you guys can keep helping people.

How about a "fund our operations" button, or at least some pool that I can donate to if there aren't any people left who need a treatment right this second (as occurred the last time I left this comment).

Otherwise, cheers. I just made another donation. I think what you're doing is spectacular.

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Thanks for the support and suggestions! Since we launched Watsi with 0 funding, it was the ultimate MVP. Because of that, we've had some performance and backend things to fix up before jumping into new features (e.g. until recently our partners were individually emailing us patient profiles).

But we're about to push some new features (Stripe integration, optional "tips" to Watsi, and a General Fund). They're coming soon, we promise! (Teasers below)

Payments & Tips: http://i.imgur.com/ZRzTvhj.jpg General Fund: http://i.imgur.com/fUCM4za.jpg

Awesome! Also, I'm sure you've thought of this, but each profile should be updated when treatment is complete, and you should have a section where these success stories are published. This would lend tremendous credibility to those who look through the funded cases, but don't necessarily click over to the blog.

We totally agree, and we're excited to to integrate updates into the platform as soon as possible. For now, you can view updates (and tons more info) for every patient we've ever funded on our Transparency Google Document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah3wJ9CRQzyHdDZ...

I think the general fund is the most important option right now. I don't actually want to end up deciding who gets my money, I'd much rather see donations spread out among people who need them, based on medical urgency if possible (as opposed to who is most photogenic or who has the most touching story).

Everyone pictured on the website is guaranteed funding.

https://watsi.org/faq#how-do-the-donation-logistics-work

I believe the "donate towards our costs" button only shows up when there are no patients to donate to. I have a paypal receipt from donating towards their operating costs, so I know it was up there at some point!

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