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

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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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Post by herenorthere »

egypturnash wrote: post #56
herenorthere wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea, but I'd assume the mobile app would be for use of the people receiving the money. Which would be a nice add if I were a content creator. But that's just a guess. Edit: As for your notion that an app isn't necessary when there is a well-designed mobile site, I def agree. However, that's just not the case anymore, how else do you expect companies to so easily collect your personal data! /s Edit2: Id wag…

I make most of my rent drawing comics and getting via Patreon and I’ve never had any use for their app. YMMV.

yeah agreed. I prefer to not have to use an app if I don't have too. Or unless there's some great benefit that the app has that the mobile site doesn't

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

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Post by jijosunny »

0xCAFCAF wrote: post #57

Hey, just wanted to let you know your developers page is not working: https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/

Hey there, thanks for letting me know. Developer features are in beta -- I have removed the link from the footer.

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

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Post by securingsincity »

I've been a user for over a year. It has worked well for people to use as an alternative to github sponsors and open collective. When i joined i got a single letter vanity page... https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j probably not what they would have intended...

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

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Post by rvnx »

jijosunny wrote: post #54
spike021 wrote: post #46

If Patreon were to add a feature to do one-time, no sign-up required contributions to any of the orgs currently using it, would this be survivable for you? Do you have ideas of ways to increase value to make using your service over others more worthwhile or is the one-time, no sign-up required contribution process the primary feature right now?

that's a great question! broadly, I think it's an overkill for certain types of creators (say an Instagrammer or Twitch streamer) to launch a Patreon. Buy Me A Coffee is a far more casual and friendly way to accept contributions from your fans. We also differentiate from Patreon in a lot of ways. For e.g., creators love that we're putting fans/supporters in the front-and-center (like Twitch), which also encourages mo…

A copy of Patreon to encourage your favorite creators to get addicted to a substance that has very negative side-effects when you quit it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-is-how-yo...

Well done.

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

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Post by jijosunny »

securingsincity wrote: post #63

I've been a user for over a year. It has worked well for people to use as an alternative to github sponsors and open collective. When i joined i got a single letter vanity page... https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j probably not what they would have intended...

:) yeah, we stopped accepting usernames with less than 3 chars, but thank you for being an early user!

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

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Post by m-i-l »

jijosunny wrote: post #11
fredley wrote: post #3

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.

Buy Me A Coffee is more than a simple donation button/link. We help creators set up memberships, publish members-only content, website widget and more. You can read the full comparison here - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ko-fi-alternative That said, we're big fans of all creator monetization companies like substack, patreon, ko-fi, etc.

buymeacoffee.com has a single use coffee cup in their logo, while ko-fi.com has an environmentally friendly reusable cup. Might sound trivial because it is just virtual, but some may argue it is an indication of thought processes and values.

Nice idea though. You could have a Buy Me A Coffee link on your own site for those who like the idea but aren't customers.

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

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Post by coachtrotz »

herenorthere wrote: post #45
ronilan wrote: post #36

I’ve been following Buy Me A Coffee since it publicly launched (not today) and it’s great to see that a side project can get support from YC. It’s not an easy space. I work winters as a snowboard instructor. Over a typical winter I’d teach literally hundreds of people. Every once in a while I’d get a gift card, if guest is American, I might even get a cash tip, but generally, it’s Snow School pay. So, I thought somet…

cool idea. I always thought it would be awesome to figure out IRL non-cash tipping edit: and somehow make it not awkward, cumbersome, or time-consuming

There's a company called Mezu which does this - you'll never reveal your identity or personal info the people you tip and vice versa. https://www.mezu.com/

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

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Post by ankeshk »

This hits me with nostalgia. I had made the first buy me a beer / coffee plugin for the wordpress ecosystem back in 2007. People consistently were earning more from donations than from adsense through the plugin.

The idea wasn't originally mine. Paul Myers on the warriorforum used to have "buy me a beer" in his signature. I just ported it to wordpress. Its amazing to see you guys doing well.

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