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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 »

dkroy wrote: post #89
dulse wrote: 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.

Very true!

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

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Post by swastika »

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/swastika

:)

> - Exclusive content: Publish supporter-only content on your BuyMeACoffee page to encourage more donations.

Would BMC host this content? What would happen if the content went viral?

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

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Post by josephsunny »

MarinReiter wrote: post #119
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".…

I get your point, but BuyMeACoffee is more than just a tipping platform. Creators can reward their supporters, showcase supporter comments (which is often more rewarding than the money itself) and much more.

MrDots is a game developer who gives away game codes to supporters. He raised $1300 within a day after sharing it with his audience: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Zc2ryTOpw. This is just one of many use-cases where BMC can be used effectively :)

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

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Post by wastedhours »

MarinReiter wrote: post #119
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".…

I don't really understand the point - in most interpretations of artist I've come to find, the creation of the art is detached from the financial reward, thus it neither contributes to or detracts from the artist's worth how/how much they take as contributions?

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

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Post by swastika »

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…

> Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country.

This is a good catch! The problem though is BMC will now have to keep the country data updated from Stripe, unless Stripe provides it over their API

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

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Post by josephsunny »

edent wrote: post #122

I'm so glad that you support the UK! But it would be lovely to set the default currency as £ (or €) rather than $.

This is a popular request. It was deliberate not to offer multiple currency support. We believe having a unified payment flow will go a long way in improving conversions. Higher conversions = happy creators :)

However, we're currently looking into paying creators in their currencies, which will solve half the problem (+ a lot more payment options like Apple Pay, Android Pay, Bitcoin, etc.)

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

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Post by josephsunny »

warent wrote: post #112
egypturnash wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ch…

Very valid point.

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

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Post by neural_thing »

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/sergey

As others have noted, I would have liked to see what my page would look like before/when setting it up.

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

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Post by edanm »

A question that immediately popped up in my mind was "how is this different from Patreon?". Searching here, I'm clearly not the only person to ask this, and the answer you gave seems to be "this is for one-time payments rather than recurring payments".

It might be worth writing this or conveying this in some way explicitly, since this seems to be your big selling point.

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