Ballerine
Web and SaaS
kyc onboarding
SHOW HN2022
254points
69comments
#187of 2,570 in 2022
Top 8%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Well-built, clean open-source code and UI
From 2 comments
It's a surprisingly well-built piece of open source software. I should add that I absolutely hate KYC practices and all the evil it brings to the world. I sincerely hope this…
egorfine on HNSuperb! This is excellent work. KYC is an important area for many applications. And Svelte rocks. In my direct experience, many coding teams have a challenging time working with…
jph on HN
Lightweight Svelte flow
From 1 comment
Superb! This is excellent work. KYC is an important area for many applications. And Svelte rocks. In my direct experience, many coding teams have a challenging time working with…
jph on HN
Objections
KYC is privacy-invasive and risky to hold customer ID data
From 3 comments
> KYC is an important area for many applications. Agreed. Superb for malicious hacks and information leaks.
irusensei on HNIt is malicious technology just like AI surveillance. And just like AI surveillance Being enforced by regulation doesn't make it moral. It _will_ eventually be hacked and you may…
irusensei on HNDepending on a 3rd party for your customer data seems like a really big risk, no?
victor9000 on HN
Desktop demo fails at Upload ID step
From 1 comment
Just a heads-up: On desktop, in all of the demos, I get stuck on the "Upload ID" step. Clicking on any of the buttons triggers the following error in the console: Firefox: >…
jorams on HN
Selfie and document checks can be spoofed without liveness
From 2 comments
This looks great! A somewhat tangential question: what are the ways KYC can be made less vulnerable to identity theft? Do people who verify the uploaded document use some…
augustuspolius on HNIf you send the result only it’s easy to spoof
brutopia on HN
Requests
Expand KYC and KYB acronyms in the docs
From 3 comments
Not to detract from the project itself, but neither this HN post or the GitHub repo ever define any of the initialisms in use. Being slightly unfamiliar with what KYC/KYB even…
jakereps on HNAML - Anti Money Laundering CFT - combating funding terrorism KYC - know your customer KYB - know your businesses…
leetrout on HNIt would be useful if KYC and KYB were expanded once in the readme. I can Google them, of course, but for semi familiar readers having one expanded use towards their first use…
socialismisok on HN
Built-in data retention policies and deletion
From 2 comments
I think the sort of thing that would really help would be the ability to write data retention policies into the flow and have them enforced by the system. For example, when…
danpalmer on HNThis looks great, congrats on the launch! What's the story around user privacy regulations? The intersection between KYC regulations and things like GDPR are very hard problems,…
danpalmer on HN
Release backend services and UI packages as open source
From 2 comments
hello, it looks like some core functioanlity like backend services not open sourced. like 'ballerine-backend' is it true that only front-end is now open-sourced ?
m00dy on HNAwesome, thanks for sharing and open sourcing this! It seems however the UI components are still in a private repository:…
throwme_123 on HN
Questions
How is liveness and identity theft prevented?
From 2 comments
This looks great! A somewhat tangential question: what are the ways KYC can be made less vulnerable to identity theft? Do people who verify the uploaded document use some…
augustuspolius on HNMany services do some sort of “liveness check” to verify there’s a live human interacting with the webcam for the selfie.
sfritz on HN
How does it handle GDPR alongside KYC retention?
From 1 comment
This looks great, congrats on the launch! What's the story around user privacy regulations? The intersection between KYC regulations and things like GDPR are very hard problems,…
danpalmer on HN
How will the project be monetized?
From 1 comment
Very cool stuff - how do you plan monetising it?
yrgulation on HN
Alternatives named
Onfido
From 1 comment
The company I work for, Onfido, has recently released something similar to this: https://onfido.com/solutions/studio/ Hosting this yourself is one thing, but there are big…
orf on HN