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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://www.buymeacoffee.com/wp-login.php Cheers!

Haha, that's pretty clever.

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

#82

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://…

http://buymeacoff.ee/greyson

Looks great! Would love to see a baby dropdown option that let's users set their own price, but the site looks awesome!

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

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Signed up for my non-profit, the onboarding flow was simple and fast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LlcnOfXiu

However, I have a few pointers. During the onboarding flow, I had to fill out the title, description, image / videos. It would be nice to see a layout of how the page would look like so I can determine how these information would be presented to the public and then fill it out according (how much to write, what to write, etc.)

In the description, adding url links felt a little clunky. It seems that only single words could be linked, whereas the expected experience is to be able to link multiple words at once.

Looking at my created page, I could publish updates. This was a pleasant surprise because I came in expecting a static page. Do you see non-profits as a target audience?

Good Job, I like the product. It feels simple.

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

#84

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/donshinski

appreciate your work, also looking forward to crypto support, cheers!

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

#85
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the donor charged a different amount based on whether they pay through Stripe or Paypal? If I go to donate $5 at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xn , it looks like I'll be $5 if I pay through Stripe with a credit card, and $5.45 if I pay using PayPal: https://gist.github.com/cwarden/4df8d8a5df0ff010e39d810f58ec...

Both Stripe and Paypal charge a small processing fee (2.9% + 30 cents).

In most cases, that charge isn't passed on to the buyer/donor. When it is, it should be made explicit.

Nonprofits sometimes make it an option, e.g. "Add 3% to your donation to help offset credit card processing fees".

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

#87
post #77

The way I understand your profit model is that you are, essentially, trying to undercut the competition by operating at a loss until the amount of clients you have surpasses some undisclosed number (or your initial capital runs low?), at which point new customers will have to pay the market rate for your service, and your initial customers still don't pay anything? If you make it far enough to start charging for your…

Very good question, @kqr. Unlike our competitors, BuyMeACoffee is catering to small and big creators alike. Even if we waive the platform fee for the first 100k creators, there is still room for us to make money as there are millions of creators online. By making the entry barrier low, we are hoping to attract the maximum number of creators and initiate a network effect. 90% of our existing users are referred by other creators, directly or from their promotions :)

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

#89
post #13

Looks good. Few notes: 1. During sign up, I'm super confused why you have to set up anything related to payout before setting up your coffee page -- this is inverted to the way it should be. Get them the page as soon as possible and let them share and accept donations, then IF (big if, I bet the median amount raised is $0) they have a literal financial incentive to set up their friction-filled payout form process. If…

This kind of feedback I really love to see in Show HN. It's very well thought out, and has some clear take aways to action on.

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

#90

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://…

I like the simplicity of the site, and the clean design. Get in, donate, get out. Easy.

https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes

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