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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1806 points JustSkyfall | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source
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cmckn ◴[18 Sep 25 03:00 UTC] No.45284733[source]▶
I’m not familiar with this organization. For those curious: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/812...

In 2023 they had $11.4 million in revenue, almost entirely donations, and spent about $6 million. They had about $10 million in assets.

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1. sqs ◴[18 Sep 25 03:09 UTC] No.45284796[source]▶
It's a big organization of teen coders who build really cool things together. Instead of coding alone, they get to hack on software and hardware projects in person and online with other smart teens all around the world.

You can see full financial and donor information at https://hackclub.com/philanthropy/ as well. Check it out. It's an organization that lots of HN folks would support (and many do). (I am on the board of Hack Club.)

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2. cmckn ◴[18 Sep 25 03:14 UTC] No.45284834[source]▶
Sounds like a great project! Sorry you had to deal with this headache.
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3. scooter_y ◴[18 Sep 25 03:33 UTC] No.45285002[source]▶
I'm a hack clubber who is extremely active and has sent over 55K messages in the slack (talk about insanity!). I've been part of Hack Club for about 3 years now, and it's changed my life in ways you couldn't have imagined. Porting over from Slack is super stressful for me + all of the HC staff having to pull all-nighters for the next week :). Hopefully this can all be figured out, and we can finally have a proper FOSS software to allow for lots of additions via PR's! Also, all the finances are available too at hcb.hackclub.com/hq (guess what, this is 99% coded by teenagers too, and open source... woah).