Nice to hear from Watsi after all this time! Here's the original Show HN Chase linked to:

Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424081 - Aug 2012 (183 comments)

... followed by the other threads I could find (in forward order for a change):

Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5117385 - Jan 2013 (168 comments)

The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5299910 - Feb 2013 (63 comments)

Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445014 - March 2013 (11 comments)

Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508064 - April 2013 (20 comments)

PG chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579353 - April 2013 (31 comments)

Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6103506 - July 2013 (94 comments)

Watsi Lands $1.5M Donation From Humble Bundle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916609 - Dec 2013 (20 comments)

A dose of perspective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7549245 - April 2014 (38 comments)

Stories from our first two years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8286476 - Sept 2014 (34 comments)

Universal Fund - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563558 - Nov 2014 (29 comments)

Saying Yes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9428403 - April 2015 (13 comments)

Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15165111 - Sept 2017 (281 comments)

How we built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398220 - Feb 2018 (25 comments)

You should be unbelievably proud of what you've achieved, and it's lovely to be reminded of the amazing things people can accomplish amongst the backdrop of almost deafeningly negative sentiment going around.

Thanks for doing what you do and for sharing your story!

Chase- thank you for what you've done in creating Watsi to impact 33,000 lives! It also made me believe in the potential for non profits to create a positive impact again.

This is my fav charity option. It's so hard some times to know where you can do maximum good with your money: Watsi might well be it.

You did a great thing! Thank you.

One thing I always thought of converging businesses with helping people in need.

I know a lot of people think about this in a negative way in charity circles but I’d rather like to see companies sponsor donate in return of some sort visibility.

Somehow I always thought that would be a good fit for an organization such as yours. (I did donate through you guys previously, thanks for facilitating that).

That's incredible. Why even compare your startup to for-profits, while you actually make world a better place?

Watsi is incredibly inspiring!

I’ve been a monthly donor since ~the beginning when I was just an undergraduate, and I still read the stories and emails I receive. I’m glad that you opted for the steady growth path, and that you’ve made it a sustainable thing.

No problem! I would absolutely help again. This is an important cause that is near to my heart. Speaking for the HN community: we are always happy to help!

Thank you Chase -- I was an early Watsi supporter (and still am actually) but you just reminded me I need to donate soon haha :) Either way fantastic work and thank you!

Watsi seems to be doing great work, but the title—"you helped save 33k lives"—reads as incredibly misleading to me. I guess "helped" could be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but I would be incredibly surprised if the counterfactual number of lives saved was more than 3000. (But don't let this dissuade you from donating; concretely improving someone's life is totally a worthwhile goal, and Watsi seems very good at effecting this)

I basically only trust GiveWell on global aid, have you been evaluated by them?

Incredible, I didn't know about Watsi, but I am glad that I do now. Direct support for something as important as healthcare seems to be one of the best ways to deploy donations to positively impact the world. Thank you for creating this!

Thank YOU Chase :) (I work at Watsi)

If you'd like to see an example of what Watsi's about, check out Emmanuel's profile: https://watsi.org/profile/79acfc50bee4-emmanuel

Also, fun fact: 619 of our current monthly donors first made a donation 10 or more years ago, and I'm pretty sure many of those were/are Hacker News readers. If you're interested, see https://watsi.org/universal-fund

Great work Chase! I remember meeting you back in the shared office with Teespring. You are right, we are not our startups, but there is a lot to be proud of, an impact is always the goal, for profit or non. Onward!

I don't comment on Hacker News very much -- in fact, extremely rarely, but I do remember this more than a decade ago and its awesome that you've stuck with this for this long.

Congratulations to you and all the work that you've done and the impact that you've had. That's pretty cool and something I think many of us aspire to. Cheers Chase!

Thank you for the incredibly inspiring work! At a time when 99% of the founders and VCs just want to bank on the next big hype cycle and accumulate power and wealth, it’s good to be reminded that actual life changing work with direct impact on people is still possible.

I've appreciated following your story. Happy that it's brought more meaning to your life and been a net-positive for the planet. That says a lot.

Never heard of Watsi. Just donated!!! Grateful for your work, and sticking it out serving human beings while others hustle to secure the bag. There's nothing wrong with securing the bag, of course, but it just makes work like this even more impressive to me. Kudos!