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🏦 Our Bank Account

For teenagers, money is tough. The banking system is a convoluted mess and getting legal status can take months. That’s why we used HCB to run Assemble. HCB, which was built by Hack Club, enabled us to do the following with just 30 minutes of setup:

• Issue debit cards (both virtual & physical) to each member of our team. We used these debit cards to spend money!
• Send ACH transfers. We used these to reimburse attendees with a travel stipend for their flights.
• Open source our finances at hcb.hackclub.com/assemble.
• Send emails to our attendees using HCB’s instance of Sendy.
• Generate legal waivers for attendees.

Without HCB, money would have been a massive pain in the neck for our team. It truly is a godsend.