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

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Looks great! One more piece of feedback, I got an obscure error trying to update page settings (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/page-settings) after having left it open while I went to lunch - presumably something timed out. Reloading and saving worked fine. Error in the console was home/update_page_settings Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()

Other than that, looks great, thanks! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ineptech

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

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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'…

Just want to say that giving many examples of users of your site with links as replies is a genius way to show off your existing customers. It doesn't feel like spam, more like examples with proof. Good luck!

Thank you :)

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://…

I'd love to see this take off :) Made my page

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz

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://…

Awesome, been looking for something like this. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stuff Any chance of a webhook for donation notifications?

Yes! Coming soon. Enjoy the 'Someone bought you 5 coffees' emails until then :)

Glad to be your first supporter BTW!

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

#165

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'd love to see this take off :) Made my page https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz

Welcome to BuyMeACoffee!

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

#166

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://…

This is awesome. I mostly do Open Source and I think BuyMeACoffee compliments Patreon really well. Thank you for the offer.

There is only one issue where you can't attach a link to a more than a one word. I wish you could do that.

My page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nikitavoloboev

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

#167

Looks great! One more piece of feedback, I got an obscure error trying to update page settings ( https://www.buymeacoffee.com/page-settings ) after having left it open while I went to lunch - presumably something timed out. Reloading and saving worked fine. Error in the console was home/update_page_settings Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 () Other than that, looks great, thanks! htt…

Welcome to BMC, @ineptech!

We briefly went down to upgrade our server (happy problems!) which should've caused that error. Thanks for noticing!

BTW please choose a payout method to make your BMC page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :)

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

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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…

I'm sorry you feel that way, but I disagree. Creators, charities and public figures of all sizes and type use BuyMeACoffee to receive support. William LeGate, an activist (#boycottNRA) used BuyMeACoffee just yesterday to raise $2500 in less than an hour: https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/968630079285686273 It exceeded all his expectations, and I think the branding and it's friendly tone went a long way in achi…

there's a difference between getting people to say _right now i need you all to "buy me a coffee"_ and getting the same people to buy you a coffee on a repeated basis.

I need help now != support my ongoing work on x

my point being, that it's irrelevant that William got $2500 fast. the question is how many people on the platform have been able to earn anything more than just a random occasional tip on it? Is anyone getting even "poverty level" worth of donations (~12k in the US because our gov't has no concept of how much things cost).

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