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://…
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#322BuyMeACoffee.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/nibs
Lovely (and lively!) project, glad it's been posted here. Quite spare design. No flaws signing up. It'll be a treat to experiment.
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#323BuyMeACoffee.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/elliot
This site looks awesome, really cool to see what you're doing and I really hope it takes off! A little bit of feedback:
1. You really show offer a button in markdown format. The HTML one doesn't work on a github markdown document without losing all the styles because of github markdown security.
2. Because I had to use the image for markdown, I noticed that the image is pretty fuzzy on a retina screen. The whole thing is quite low res, might be worth doing a 3x one if you can?
3. It'd be great for a user to see the price they're donating and then just change it with a slide or input field. At the moment jus x1, x2, x3 is not only limiting but also quite hidden. A coffee in the UK is quite different to a coffee in Norway for instance. It also means someone can give much more if they'd like which is great for creators! Perhaps allow the creator to set a suggested and minimum donation, you can then cap at say $5 minimum, but have a suggested of $10 and the user can choose a value from there. If you wanted to keep the coffee analogy, you could have a nice little SVG which changes to a more extravagant coffee the bigger it gets, maybe eventually turning into a coffee machine at X amount.
4. I feel like I probably shouldn't be forced to setup a payment provider to get going, it makes it a lot more work to get up and running as a user of the platform.
5. It'd be fantastic if I could see where people came from when they donated. Perhaps they came from npm, github, or my blog, each is very different and lets me experiment with what's working and what's pointless.
Great platform, just what I've been looking for recently!
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#324BuyMeACoffee.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 great! Here's my link:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/philbarr
I've suffered with eczema all my life and am working on a webapp to help people monitor their eczema, since constant monitoring of what you eat / drink / do / everything is one of the best ways to control eczema. Couldn't really think of a way to fund it before and will try this. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations
#325BuyMeACoffee.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://…
Neat project!
Here's my link https://buymeacoff.ee/fikrikarim
I wonder if this kind of "reply here" way is encouraged on HN. Yes this will get a lot of traction, but I rarely see this on HN.
Hope this post doesn't trigger the "flame war detection" [1]
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Re: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations
#326BuyMeACoffee.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/elliot This site looks awesome, really cool to see what you're doing and I really hope it takes off! A little bit of feedback: 1. You really show offer a button in markdown format. The HTML one doesn't work on a github markdown document without losing all the styles because of github markdown security. 2. Because I had to use the image for markdown, I noticed that the image is pretty fuzzy on a…
I would love to see improvements to "the button" as well.
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#327Slight nitpick but feels relevant: for sites like this, having an about page that doesn't tell you anything about who is behind the site is a miss. Instead of who brought you this, it says, "Join the BuyMeACoffee community". Anonymity is wrong here. Doesn't feel very ... community-esque.
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#328Looks 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…
> There are some tactical things (eg, the dropdown for country should have USA at the top, Just do it alphabetically and perhaps provide a search-based dropdown function. Damn patriots.
The advice would apply to any country. It makes sense to have defaults that are applicable to most of your users.
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#329As a creator, I'd like to understand the differences between this and Patreon. Why would I use this instead of Patreon?
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#330Surprised I was able to get this url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/troy Love how slick everything is. Although couple things: - Register page just hung with the spinning icon. Got the activation email but not sure what happened on registration. Guessing it errored. I have adblock so maybe theres something there? - Would be nice to change the amount down to just a buck (hey I'm a cheap date). - Would also be nice to c…
Thank you for the kind words, @dawnerd. Nice URL! - Weird. Shared with the team. We'll look into this right away. - It's the second time we're hearing this today, and we'll definitely consider this. Thanks for the tip! - You're right. You can do it with the buttons though (custom text, font, color, etc.). It's pretty cool :) - Yes, it's cookie-based if the supporter is not logged in. However, we do our best to messag…
Just sayin, could probably get the url buymeata.co