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Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by zaroth »

oaf357 wrote: post #199

Having had Buy Me A Coffee promeniently featured on two websites and a newsletter I never had anyone actually contribute a penny. YMMV of course but with a quarter of a million page views you'd think people would have contributed at least once.

I tried to buy you a coffee, went through Stripe checkout process, got a green check, saw a $1.00 Buymeacoffee charge show up on my iPhone via push notification, and then hit an error message;

“We were unable to process your payment right now !

If you encounter this message more than once, please contact support for further assistance Or you can try again“

Went through the whole process again with the same card, didn’t work. Same error.

Went through the whole process again with a different card. Still didn’t work. Same non-descript error.

So your account in particular may be blacklisted or broken for some reason :-(

Sorry, no coffee for you!

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by adaven_xt »

Hahaha. Just last week I was telling my wife I should make a "buy me a coffee" site to learn how to integrate with Stripe and other payment platforms, pad my resume, have a few lulz, and maybe even get a coffee.

And... There's already a SaaS for that. Well done.

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by zaroth »

ISL wrote: post #116

Does BMC give subscribers an annual 1099 to simplify tax reporting?

Why would you report income on my tax free gift?

Unless someone is giving you more than $7k per year, there’s no quid pro quo here, no contract, no barter, no exchange of goods.

Can’t see how this isn’t a tax free gift, but IANAL.

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by alwillis »

josephsunny wrote: post #2

BuyMeACoffee.com co-founder here. BMC is a friendly way for creators (bloggers, artists, developers) to receive donations from their audience. We have seen the platform used in ways we never imagined. William LeGate, an activist (boycottNRA) used BuyMeACoffee just yesterday to raise $2500 in less than an hour: https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/968630079285686273 Check out some 'Buy Me A Coffee' pages: https://…

Love the UI/UX… this how everything should work in 2018.

And thanks for your offer for HN users! Quite awesome of you.

Here’s my page link: https://buymeacoff.ee/alwillis

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by huuyngo »

josephsunny wrote: post #2

BuyMeACoffee.com co-founder here. BMC is a friendly way for creators (bloggers, artists, developers) to receive donations from their audience. We have seen the platform used in ways we never imagined. William LeGate, an activist (boycottNRA) used BuyMeACoffee just yesterday to raise $2500 in less than an hour: https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/968630079285686273 Check out some 'Buy Me A Coffee' pages: https://…

Signing up was seamless. I will look forward to using BMC in the future. Thank you for waiving the platform fee!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeBEI93

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by jessicaszeto »

josephsunny wrote: post #2

BuyMeACoffee.com co-founder here. BMC is a friendly way for creators (bloggers, artists, developers) to receive donations from their audience. We have seen the platform used in ways we never imagined. William LeGate, an activist (boycottNRA) used BuyMeACoffee just yesterday to raise $2500 in less than an hour: https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/968630079285686273 Check out some 'Buy Me A Coffee' pages: https://…

This looks perfect for some of my upcoming projects!

I just have a comment that the price of an individual "coffee" should be more obvious because it might not be clear before you look at the Buy button total (which is a bit low-contrast anyway).

At first glance, the 1-3-5 looks like the dollar amount you're donating, not a multiplier of a coffee cup since the coffee doesn't have the actual price anywhere.

Especially considering that a coffee price can differ from $3-$5 depending on each person's settings, I would go for clarity and either put the price in front of the coffee cup or use a coffee cup icon that has the price on it.

I'm super excited to try this out though! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JessicaSzeto

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by d99kris »

josephsunny wrote: post #2

BuyMeACoffee.com co-founder here. BMC is a friendly way for creators (bloggers, artists, developers) to receive donations from their audience. We have seen the platform used in ways we never imagined. William LeGate, an activist (boycottNRA) used BuyMeACoffee just yesterday to raise $2500 in less than an hour: https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/968630079285686273 Check out some 'Buy Me A Coffee' pages: https://…

Thanks! Here's my link: https://buymeacoff.ee/d99kris

Very smooth signup experience.

Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

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Post by delgaudm »

jjjensen90 wrote: post #100
delgaudm wrote: post #64

I signed up, and it looks good. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BoothJunkie My feedback: I've been using paypal.me, and the ability to change the donation at the URL has been incredibly helpful towards getting patrons to choose an amount that suits them. I suggest $X but they are free to change, and it's super easy. Often patrons up the number and I get more donations. I'm not convinced the multiplier buttons do the sam…

Are you the Mike DelGaudio who contributes to the NoSleep Podcast?! If so, I've listened to your voice acting for hundreds of hours... HN never ceases to amaze me for bringing dialogue from people you would never expect to run in to. But on topic, I agree with your feedback. I run a volunteer video game project with about 8000 users who are pretty active and also come from a huge variety of economic situations. Right…

> Are you the Mike DelGaudio who contributes to the NoSleep Podcast?

I am! Thank you so much for listening! It's such a blast to do!

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