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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 egypturnash »

patja wrote: post #33

I feel this is unintentionally going to the lowest end of this space with the whole "buy me a coffee" message and brand. I run a site which is 100% monetized through voluntary donations and I would never use language like buy me a beer/buy me a coffee for it. It feels like you are marginalizing your work to the hobby/side-project realm with low expectations. We strive for $40 a year as a target donation from those wh…

40/y divided by twelve months is 3.33. They’re pretty much paying for a half a coffee every month in one lump sum.

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

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Post by kqr »

josephsunny wrote: post #87
kqr wrote: 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 othe…

I probably don't understand quite what you are getting at. If you bear with me, I have an easier time with concrete examples: if I sign up now, and in two years' time, Steve signed up as part of the post-critical mass. So I bring in $0 to you while using your infrastructure, and Steve is also a smallish creator using the infrastructure just as much as me, but bringing in, say, $8 per month, on average.

If Steve and I both have trouble, it would make business to prioritise helping Steve, in order to be able to afford helping me, but I'd still be a second-tier user.

Why should I believe this will not be the case?

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

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Post by josephsunny »

songzme wrote: post #83

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, wha…

Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, @songsze. Good to see that you already started receiving coffees :)

- Thanks for the suggestion. Our intention is to make the onboarding process as straightforward as possible and we will look into this. That hyperlink issue could be a glitch. I've added to our Trello. Thanks for noticing.

- Glad you liked the updates features. Tip: You can publish exclusive content for your supporters, that's only visible to them after buying you a coffee.

- Yes, very much. Several non-profits are already using BuyMeACoffee to raise money. One such is called LittleHandsBigHearts, a small group of people passionate about helping those less fortunate than ourselves on the Island of Bali: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/v4J21UB

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

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Post by tshibley »

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/trevor

Awesome setup process - wasn't expecting it to be that simple!

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

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Post by josephsunny »

jonathonf wrote: post #65
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://…

Anything that lowers the friction for people who want to donate can only be a good thing. And sure, why not: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jonathon

True that. Welcome to BMC, Jonathan. Enjoy a coffee on the house :)

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

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Post by josephsunny »

PeteyCodes wrote: post #90
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://…

I like the simplicity of the site, and the clean design. Get in, donate, get out. Easy. https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes

Yep, trying to make it as frictionless as possible :) Thanks for trying us out. Glad to be your first supporter!

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

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Post by josephsunny »

shinski wrote: post #84
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/donshinski appreciate your work, also looking forward to crypto support, cheers!

Welcome to BMC, Don! Crypto support is just around the corner and we're equally excited :)

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

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Post by subhobroto »

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/subhobroto

The onboarding experience was great. As you grow, the page settings will need to evolve to support branding that concent creators have already decided on.

Also, the 'save' button on the pages did not give me any indication that my changes were saved (like a green checkmark or some sort of a banner)

+1 to the idea of having more than one category (and a goal for each category). I like to write about healthcare, automotive repair and business. There's little overlap in the audience.

Thank you for building this!

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

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Post by subhobroto »

jacobevelyn wrote: post #47
jacobevelyn wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome! Here's me: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JacobEvelyn Small pieces of feedback: - It's not super clear to me what I should put in "About you" vs. "Your story" - I noticed that the "Your story" section gets centered on the page, making bulleted lists look a bit weird (see my page) - I noticed that emoji don't work in the "Your story" section (this may be intentional) In general this looks really neat, nice work…

Oh, one more piece of feedback I forgot: I'm rather interdisciplinary. Is there a way to put myself into more than one category?

+1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486185
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