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

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Does BMC give subscribers an annual 1099 to simplify tax reporting?

Why would you report income on my tax free gift? Unless someone is giving you more than $7k per year, there’s no quid pro quo here, no contract, no barter, no exchange of goods. Can’t see how this isn’t a tax free gift, but IANAL.

Where is the line between payment and gift, especially if it is in partial exchange for a good/service?

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.buymeacoff.ee/tarot :)

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://buymeacoff.ee/mcdoh

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/stfu

Added the button to a little forum I run. It was easy enough to set up. I previously had no advertising or anything on the site.

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://…

Great execution, plan to give is a whirl:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark

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://…

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! We'd also love to be your first supporter.

I'll take you up on that offer. https://buymeacoff.ee/shurcooL Thanks!

Some feedback from my signup experience:

    	1. I saw someone in the comments mentioning that it'd be nice to be
	   able to connect payout methods later, and a reply said there was
	   a "skip for now" button. So, I was looking to use it (not expecting
	   to get a lot of coffee at this time...).

	   However, the page asking to pick Stripe or PayPal came up, and there
	   was no "skip for now" button anywhere in sight. I was taken aback a
	   bit. I was thinking maybe I just need to click on the dashboard link
	   on top, but was worried that might rip me out of the onboarding flow...

	   In the end, I decided to just add a Stripe account now. So I picked
	   Stripe (over PayPal), and THEN it gave me the offer to skip adding it.
	   What!? Why show the "skip adding payment info for now" option only
	   after making the user go through the decision of picking a payment
	   provider? I'd rather have seen the button on the first page.

	   Of course, then it said my page wouldn't be visible publicly until
	   I do add one, so there wasn't a point in skipping anyway.

	   That whole "make a decision about payment/actually you can do that
	   later/actually you have to do it now" experience felt unfriendly and
	   probably could be improved.

	2. On the Dashboard, there's "What do you do?" input with an input field.
	   It shows some pre-populated (I presume) options when you begin typing.

	   I wanted to pick something that best describes me (open source software
	   engineer working mostly with Go), so I wanted to see all the options
	   available. But I could only see them if I type at least one letter.

	   So I tried typing A, B, C, etc. In the end, I was able to get a gist of
	   what categories were there and which ones weren't (there's "Developer",
	   but nothing else quite fitting), but I had to go in a roundabout way of
	   accomplishing it. Perhaps this could be made friendlier too. (Just a
	   normal dropdown that shows all options when clicked, maybe?)
P.S. That's a nice growth strategy.

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

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Nice! very easy on-boarding/signup flow. The only hiccup I had was on the first screen for signup, the Facebook panel is so prominent (while the email signup is far less so) that I thought the only sign-up option was to use a Facebook account... almost closed the tab and moved on.

https://buymeacoff.ee/emk

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

#229

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://…

Thanks for the waiver! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ping

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

#230

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://…

Made a link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/UeaBnjrb7

FYI, the text fields when inserting a link are switched around.

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