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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 lf6648 »

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://…

Just what I have been looking for, at the exact moment I was looking for it :-) Unfortunately I already bought my first coffee on credit this morning, but I'm sure more will come in a short while! (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/laurent) The signup and profile customisation processes are highly user-friendly, and just worked the way they should! (so no bad user experience feedback for you from my side, unfortunately :) )

Thanks a lot for your great work!

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

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Post by yagyu »

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://…

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Jonase

Cool, thanks a lot!

Sign up was smooth on Android chrome, but I managed to misunderstand the save button once in the edit page. I pressed save and went to hamburger menu-your page, and all changes were lost. Turns out url I chose first was taken, but the error message upon saving was off screen for me so I did not see it..

No biggie, very friendly interface. I like that I got my initials on the logo cup :) buy whoever made that a coffee..

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

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Post by pikdum »

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://…

https://buymeacoff.ee/pikdum

I like it. I've been thinking about setting up a donation system to help cover hosting costs for a few sites, but never got around to it. This was painless to get set up and hooked up with an existing PayPal account, and easy enough to use that my users might actually chip in (doubt they would bother with platforms like Patreon or making new accounts). Definitely enjoying how simple and clean the UX is.

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

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Post by Steppschuh »

scrollaway wrote: post #117
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://…

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! You're crazy :) But ok! https://buymeacoff.ee/jleclanche Feedback: 1. My avatar wasn't picked up from Facebook, nor Gravatar. My email wasn't either. I think it's OK for you to request these from Facebook. 2. Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country. 3. Add an optional "Tell us why…

Also created a page: https://buymeacoff.ee/steppschuh

I'd wish for a higher maximum word count in the Thank You message section.

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

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Post by zepn »

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://…

That's fantastic, thank you! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/np

Is it possible to further reduce the minimum supporter amount (to, say, $1?) - or customize it?

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

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Post by chopin »

Ndymium wrote: post #277

Looks nice and simple, I like the graphical style. Unfortunately I cannot try it out as putting the link on my site would be illegal in my country (Finland). Here's hoping we get more sensible laws in the future. :/

I'm curious: Why would this be illegal in Finland?

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

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Post by Ndymium »

chopin wrote: post #279
Ndymium wrote: post #277

Looks nice and simple, I like the graphical style. Unfortunately I cannot try it out as putting the link on my site would be illegal in my country (Finland). Here's hoping we get more sensible laws in the future. :/

I'm curious: Why would this be illegal in Finland?

It's against the money collection laws. Basically you have to have a permit to collect donations. That permit costs money itself and has some bureaucracy to it. It's also limited in time so you have to get a new permit after it expires.

The only way to get a donation without the permit is if someone proactively asks you how they can give money to you and then you can tell them your bank account number or PayPal or whatever.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the permits are only given to associations and such, not private persons. And even then the processing time for the permit request is 5 to 6 months.

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