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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 josephsunny »

greysonp wrote: post #82
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://…

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!

That's a neat idea, Greyson. Currently, supporters can quickly click one of those preset counts (1, 3, 5) to buy more coffees and it seems to be working really well. More than half of the donations are more than one coffee.

Welcome to BMC! :)

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

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Post by warent »

egypturnash wrote: post #101
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.

My thoughts exactly.

Just because somebody is paying the amount of a coffee, that doesn't mean they're marginalizing your efforts. It just means we've reached a point in our technology where now paying barely anything is possible across a large number of people.

Also "buy me a coffee" is much more palatable than "help pay for my house". If you say "help pay my rent" people might feel cheap for giving you $4/mo and choose to give zero

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

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Post by fady »

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 signed up! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xrp

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

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Post by josephsunny »

subhobroto wrote: post #109
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).…

Very thoughtful feedback, Subhobroto. Good to have you on board.

Save button UX is a known issue, although we never thought of it as a 'bug' to fix it. We'll reconsider this. Thanks for noticing.

Thanks, and happy to be your first supporter on BMC!

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

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Post by scrollaway »

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" textbox when I click "Delete my account". Seriously, do this early. :)

4. I see you are using Stripe Checkout.js for payment methods. Switch to Stripe Elements (https://stripe.com/elements) and the Source API to get the option to support a range of other payment methods as well as 3d secure and such.

5. What's your stack?

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

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Post by MarinReiter »

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…

100% agreed. I'd never use this type of donation service because it doesn't seem serious enough. The artist that side has to ask people to "buy me a coffee" is not the kind of artist that takes it seriously, and, say, uses art station and has a complete portfolio. "Buy me a coffee" just sounds unproffesional.

When I first saw this in tumblr, I thought: "I wouldn't want to be the artist that needs charity to survive". It's like Patreon without responsabilities or commitment...It just feels childish.

That said, I'm talking about artists only here.

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

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Post by josephsunny »

dulse wrote: post #58
josephsunny wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First off, thanks for such a comprehensive feedback! 1. You can skip that page in one-click; but I get your point. We decided to do this to avoid any confusion for new creators; especially when the whole point of the platform is to receive payments. Creators usually spend no more than a minute to sign up, so we never thought it'd be an issue. Thanks for pointing this out :) 2. Good point. Featured section is currentl…

No problem, happy to help. Feel free to email me directly (email in HN profile) if you want more thoughts at a later date, I enjoy giving feedback on new projects. I missed the "skip" button, but I think you get the underlying point. You'll want to accelerate the "magic moment" as much as possible, which is the moment your users grok the value your service provides (and you'll see this in your data as you look at use…

Spot on. I'm sure it'll have a positive impact on conversions.

BTW we'd love to hear more from you. Email is on its way :)

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