Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by josephsunny » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:26 AM UTC

jessicaszeto wrote: post #217

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://…

This looks perfect for some of my upcoming projects! I just have a comment that the price of an individual "coffee" should be more obvious because it might not be clear before you look at the Buy button total (which is a bit low-contrast anyway). At first glance, the 1-3-5 looks like the dollar amount you're donating, not a multiplier of a coffee cup since the coffee doesn't have the actual price anywhere. Especially…

Thanks for the kind words, Jessica. Very helpful suggestion. I've added this to our Trello and will look into this very soon.

Happy to be your first supporter on the platform :)

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

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Post by josephsunny » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:31 AM UTC

acutesoftware wrote: post #246

Looks good, and thanks for waiving the fees - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/acute My only concern is when I linked my Stripe account it says "buy me a coffee will have access to your data" - no, I assume it doesn't have full access to ALL the stripe data, so that could be clarified. Or at least make it clear that you cant empty my Stripe account :)

Haha, rest assured we don't have enough access to empty your Stripe account :) It is the permission required to make Stripe Connect work, and we don't store any more data than what's needed.

Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, and enjoy your first 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 » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:32 AM UTC

icarito wrote: post #239

Thanks for the offer to waive fees. Please include me https://www.buymeacoffee.com/icarito Looking forward to using it. Regards.

Done! Thanks for trying us out, Sebastian.

We're a tweet away if there's anything - https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee

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

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Post by kqr » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

josephsunny wrote: post #180

kqr wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thanks for taking time to explain your point. I understand what you mean. As a consumer product marketed towards masses, it is highly improbable that there will ever occur an event when we have to prioritize one type of users over another. Also, it is wrong to think that creators who we don't charge a platform fee are not valuable to us. Like I mentioned in my previous comment, BuyMeACoffee has an innate virality whe…

Thank you for the response. The reason I'm insistent is that I've been looking for something just like BuyMeACoff.ee, and when things show up and appear perfect at no or nearly no cost I get suspicious! But looks like you have a good thing going. :)

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

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Post by josephsunny » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

michaelbazos wrote: post #214

Love the clear and intuitive interface. Congratulations! Would be nice to have a way to input a free amount, imho. Here is mine: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelbazos Cool 404, by the way.

Thank you, Michael! Just shared your comment (about 404) with our designer :)

Welcome to BuyMeACoffee; glad to be your first supporter.

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Post by josephsunny » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:41 AM UTC

xzion wrote: post #234

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://…

Easy onboarding, thanks! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion

Thanks, Coen! Fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

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Post by Andrex » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:43 AM UTC

Love this idea and the execution is great. Two things you've probably been told already:

- No emoji support?? I mean, HN doesn't like them either but still... - The link dialog is all messed up, trying to apply URL rules to the actual text being linked.

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Post by raiichul » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:47 AM UTC

I love the name, Buy Me a Coffee. Really simple and catchy. :) A question, is there a way to follow artists? I would love to follow everyone here!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sen

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

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Post by josephsunny » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:48 AM UTC

johnpowell wrote: post #225

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/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.

Awesome! Thanks for trying us out, @johnpowell. Fee is waived, and enjoy your first 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 » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

thomaspark wrote: post #226

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://…

Great execution, plan to give is a whirl: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark

Awesome! Thanks for trying us out, Thomas. Glad to be your first supporter on the platform.