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

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If anyone is interested, I just made a simple, free donation platform for Stellar Lumens (XLM) cryptocurrency. No registration required and anonymous since it reads directly from the blockchain for the data. http://xlm.party/

Is there any reason why you choose XLM over other cryptocurrencies or why is it restricted to only XLM? As far as I can see the site just makes it easier for a person to share their public key.

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

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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://…

A fantastic product, thanks! https://buymeacoff.ee/14WkfhG

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

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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?

It is not :( Do you think such a feature would be useful? We went with $3, $4, and $5 after careful research and a poll among creators.

Welcome to BMC! Platform fee is waived, and the first coffee served :)

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

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post #282

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://…

A fantastic product, thanks! https://buymeacoff.ee/14WkfhG

Woohoo! Thanks. Happy to welcome you with a coffee.

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

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Looks good, and thanks for waiving the fees - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/acute My only concern is when I linked my Stripe account it says "buy me a coffee will have access to your data" - no, I assume it doesn't have full access to ALL the stripe data, so that could be clarified. Or at least make it clear that you cant empty my Stripe account :)

Haha, rest assured we don't have enough access to empty your Stripe account :) It is the permission required to make Stripe Connect work, and we don't store any more data than what's needed. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, and enjoy your first coffee on the house!

Thanks for clearing that up, and cheers for the coffee!

One more suggestion - in 'Create your button' you have HTML or Image options, but it would nice to have a simple github integration for Markdown or RTF (like the other badges). Any plans for this?

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

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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://…

Really nice! https://buymeacoff.ee/robertd

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

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Surprised I was able to get this url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troy Love how slick everything is. Although couple things: - Register page just hung with the spinning icon. Got the activation email but not sure what happened on registration. Guessing it errored. I have adblock so maybe theres something there? - Would be nice to change the amount down to just a buck (hey I'm a cheap date). - Would also be nice to c…

> Register page just hung with the spinning icon

Got that one too. Endless-spinners are one the most annoying stuff in the web. Please check for responses. I got a 403 (checked the network debug tag), probably session/csrf-token timeout...

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

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Surprised I was able to get this url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troy Love how slick everything is. Although couple things: - Register page just hung with the spinning icon. Got the activation email but not sure what happened on registration. Guessing it errored. I have adblock so maybe theres something there? - Would be nice to change the amount down to just a buck (hey I'm a cheap date). - Would also be nice to c…

Thank you for the kind words, @dawnerd. Nice URL!

- Weird. Shared with the team. We'll look into this right away.

- It's the second time we're hearing this today, and we'll definitely consider this. Thanks for the tip!

- You're right. You can do it with the buttons though (custom text, font, color, etc.). It's pretty cool :)

- Yes, it's cookie-based if the supporter is not logged in. However, we do our best to message properly and redirect them to the exclusive content to avoid any confusion.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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

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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 c…

Spot on. That is exactly the problem that we're trying to solve. Making donations as friendly, frictionless and straightforward as possible. Glad you like it, @pikdum.

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

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Surprised I was able to get this url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troy Love how slick everything is. Although couple things: - Register page just hung with the spinning icon. Got the activation email but not sure what happened on registration. Guessing it errored. I have adblock so maybe theres something there? - Would be nice to change the amount down to just a buck (hey I'm a cheap date). - Would also be nice to c…

> Register page just hung with the spinning icon Got that one too. Endless-spinners are one the most annoying stuff in the web. Please check for responses. I got a 403 (checked the network debug tag), probably session/csrf-token timeout...

> www.buymeacoffee.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500

Got this on validating my email. Also i can validate my request unlimited times to get unlimited emails. ;-)

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