UX edge case for you: I use f.lux which turns makes my laptop screen appear red at night. It makes the $ amount barely visible on the buy buttons. It took me a lot of clicking around to realize that it was even there. I was trying to figure out what the $ amount was for a cup of coffee and surprised that it (seemingly) wasn't listed anywhere! Checkout what it looks like on iOS night shift which has a larger user base.
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#262I 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
Thank you for the kind words, Sen! You cannot follow artists at the moment, but this something on our roadmap (along with many other community features) and we'll be sure to give it a high priority.
BTW please choose a payout method so that I can buy your first coffee :)
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#263UX edge case for you: I use f.lux which turns makes my laptop screen appear red at night. It makes the $ amount barely visible on the buy buttons. It took me a lot of clicking around to realize that it was even there. I was trying to figure out what the $ amount was for a cup of coffee and surprised that it (seemingly) wasn't listed anywhere! Checkout what it looks like on iOS night shift which has a larger user base…
You're right. Many have raised this concern, and we'll be sure to improve its design. Thanks for taking time to share the feedback!
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#264BuyMeACoffee.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://…
Very cool! Thank you :) https://buymeacoff.ee/jwkvam
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#265Forgot / missed entering the code on signup
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/adambaxter - looks good, although I'd appreciate a dark stylesheet (although it may just be the monitor I'm using at the moment
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#267BuyMeACoffee.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/schmich
Great way to promote your site. Onboarding was as easy as it gets.
I'm a software developer with a job, but I also have open source projects that stretch out beyond the horizon. Some are much more successful than others, and I've been considering accepting donations for a while.
I don't have the hardcore following that would support something like Patreon, but I have enough of an audience where something like BMAC might work. Cryptocurrency support would be interesting as well. I've considered setting up wallets for just this purpose.
Quick feedback:
1) The creator pages feel undifferentiated (colors/icons/themes/imagery). Upsides: consistency for your platform, simplicity for creators, fewer knobs, less myspace-esque junkery. Downsides: impersonal, bland, might feel cheap/unimportant. I'm not sure where I fall on the spectrum, just a fleeting thought.
2) Under "What do you do?" on my profile, I wanted to put "Open Source Software Developer" to stress the open and contributing nature of my work, but the input's maxlength was 20. I edited it to 35 and it worked, so clearly the backend supports longer descriptions ;) Maybe raise the maxlength on the field?
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#268Looks 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…
> Dropdown for country should have USA at the top.
Better, have it in regular order but pre-select with geolocation. If you use something like freegeoip.net you can progressively-enhance this with a couple of lines of JS.
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These are some very insightful suggestions, @scrollaway! 1-4 – Added to trello. Many thanks! 5. LAMP BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :) Cheers!
> 5. LAMP MySQL+PHP? Any framework in particular? Just curious > BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public Sure, done.
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