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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 »

qacek wrote: post #264
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://…

Very cool! Thank you :) https://buymeacoff.ee/jwkvam

Thanks for trying us out, Jacques! Your platform 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 jhauberg »

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://…

I've been on the lookout for something like this recently, and this thing appeared at a pretty opportune time.

I'm spending a lot of my spare time making open-source stuff over at GitHub, and even though it's all too niche to ever see widespread use, i'd like to at least have an option to receive support through donations from anyone who likes my work.

I'm not sure that i'd be using the social features that you offer; i.e. posting updates and such- i'm mostly interested in the ability to put a link/button on my READMEs, but that seems to be very easy.

I've signed up as https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jhauberg :)

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

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Post by QasimK »

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://…

I like how straightforward everything is.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/QasimK

I agree with previous comments that the trustworthiness (likeliness to donate) could be increased by giving actual information about the people and company behind the website, especially as money is involved.

Also, it's impossible to get to the footer on some pages because of the endless infinite scroll. All I wanted to do was click FAQ but I can't :(

Finally, do you not verify email addresses?

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

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Post by josephsunny »

ekiara wrote: post #228

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

Good suggestion! We have Twitter log-in planned, so we'll have to rework the design anyway.

Welcome to BuyMeACoffee!

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

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Post by keraf »

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://…

Hope I'm not late to the party :) My page is https://buymeacoff.ee/keraf

Nice site, good luck with it!

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

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Post by vivan »

I love this, I'm actually working on something very similar (accepting donations via Stripe/PayPal, but for a completely different niche), and someone (@czue) pointed me to buymeacoffee for inspiration. There are a few weird little niggles with the UI, but otherwise it's very slick.

What is the backend? Sadly WhatRuns can't identify it.

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

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Post by chrisweekly »

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…

"Remember the milk" managed to overcome this, but cockroachdb might not. Either way, it's a good point.

That said, (a) one $4 latte once per month is $48/year, and (b) maybe the intent is to emphasize a casual, small-dollar vibe, making it less intimidating than something that conjures "accounting" and "finance"?

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