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Ask HN: Best ways to accept donations?

#1
So I have a page on my website that effectively provides all the information to fix a very terrible AT&T modem. Apparently AT&T themselves have internal documents pointing to my website to fix problems with their modem.

I get tons of "thanks" comments and such, so I would like to try adding a donation button to just this page. Traditionally, I think donation buttons are tacky, but it'd be very nice to effectively break even on my (cheap) hosting.

The only donate options I really know of are paypal and bitcoin. Are there other players in the field and/or things to be wary of with these two?

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#5
Put up an ad for a better modem. Or maybe some Amazon affiliate link.

Or compile all the info into an ebook/pdf and put a "support this site and get all the info in a printer-friendly pdf" link to some self-publishing platform. I think they usually handle payments for you.

There was a project featured on HN just yesterday that allows you to sell documents stright from Dropbox/Drive[1]. Although they seem to be just using PayPal.

There's also Flattr[2] for small donations to websites. But they're probably more popular in Europe.

[1] https://sellboxhq.com/

[2] https://flattr.com/

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#8

Aside from Paypal & Bitcoin... Stripe = http://viget.com/advance/accepting-donations-online-and-how-... Dwolla = http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/217452-dwoll... Flattr = http://flattr.com/ Could you show us the page? I'm curious.

Also wepay... https://www.wepay.com/payment-buttons

I use their invoicing services and they are excellent. Have never tried their payment buttons though.

Re: Ask HN: Best ways to accept donations?

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Litecoin is another option. https://litecoin.org/

And how many donations are you going to get with that?

How many donations is he going to get in the first place with PayPal or whatever else he may choose? If I had to guess, probably not too many.
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