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Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

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How do you differentiate from https://ko-fi.com/ ? My partner has been using this for a year or so, and hasn't had much revenue.

it's literally the same idea

I bet Google's founders are glad they didn't consult you first when they were creating a search engine.

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

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I am looking for a service that will allow me to directly pay creators at the same price as an ad impression, paying per page view. So far ways to pay creators are almost always based on dollar increments, but I would have much more use for a service that lets you pay in increments of $0.001. Today this is basically impossible because payment fees make direct payments of this scale impractical, but it could theoretically be solved the way the ad industry does - by paying a lump some once a month.

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

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I am looking for a service that will allow me to directly pay creators at the same price as an ad impression, paying per page view. So far ways to pay creators are almost always based on dollar increments, but I would have much more use for a service that lets you pay in increments of $0.001. Today this is basically impossible because payment fees make direct payments of this scale impractical, but it could theoretic…

Have you seen BAT and Brave? Seems like exactly what you're describing.

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

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The implementation looks pretty slick to me!

If you're taking care of most/all the technical details, the only blocker that would prevent me from this kind of service is the unknown legal/compliance work I'd need to do in order to start taking this kind of money and have access to those users' data - is that something you can provide guidance on?

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

#26
> unobtrusive way to monetize their work

I have seen this movie before and I know how it ends. [waves at Patreon]

Help me understand why this a venture scale business and not a non-profit, a benefit corporation, a co-op or some other model I am unaware that does not demand venture-scale returns.

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

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The implementation looks pretty slick to me! If you're taking care of most/all the technical details, the only blocker that would prevent me from this kind of service is the unknown legal/compliance work I'd need to do in order to start taking this kind of money and have access to those users' data - is that something you can provide guidance on?

thank you, raul! yes, we have spent a fair bit of time to tackle these for our creators. Please drop me a line at jijo at buymeacoffee. We'd love to get you started!

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

#28

You really need to optimize tge landing page for mobile clients. Im using a powerful android phone and it struggles to load. Just shows a blank page. You should also remove the letter by letter animation on the headline. I don't have time to read all of nouns you have listed. Just cycle through whole words using a faster tick speed. And better yet, turn this landing page into a static one without any JS. Conversion n…

> Im using a powerful android phone and it struggles to load.

I'm on a powerful 8-core desktop with a dedicated GPU and the page really stutters while scrolling. I'm not sure what the deal is since there really isn't anything super graphically intensive on the page.

Re: Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's literally the same idea

I bet Google's founders are glad they didn't consult you first when they were creating a search engine.

They had a pretty easy to understand value proposition - “our results are more useful than existing search engines’”.

“We have a different pricing model” is a lot less compelling. But it has worked before!

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