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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 edent » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:46 PM UTC

josephsunny wrote: post #127

edent wrote: post #122

I'm so glad that you support the UK! But it would be lovely to set the default currency as £ (or €) rather than $.

This is a popular request. It was deliberate not to offer multiple currency support. We believe having a unified payment flow will go a long way in improving conversions. Higher conversions = happy creators :) However, we're currently looking into paying creators in their currencies, which will solve half the problem (+ a lot more payment options like Apple Pay, Android Pay, Bitcoin, etc.)

So why not offer £ as the default currency for all users?

Because you realise that currency conversion is a hassle for your (primarily USA-based) users.

Well, guess what! It's a hassle for the majority of the world who don't use the greenback. I don't intuitively know what today's exchange rate is. I suspect you don't either.

Ideally, you'd geo-detect the user and offer them a currency suitable to their location. If that's not possible, let creators choose their own currency.

If you think I'm making a fuss over nothing, listen to some UK based podcasts. They all end with the hosts asking for a Patreon contribution - and then apologising that it's only available in dollars.

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

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Post by scoufman » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:47 PM UTC

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://…

Well, nothing to lose I guess. Easy process to set it up, servers are getting a little pounded the last few hours I guess :)

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/qigPCbYZ2

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

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Post by josephsunny » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:49 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #117

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://…

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! You're crazy :) But ok! https://buymeacoff.ee/jleclanche Feedback: 1. My avatar wasn't picked up from Facebook, nor Gravatar. My email wasn't either. I think it's OK for you to request these from Facebook. 2. Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country. 3. Add an optional "Tell us why…

These are some very insightful suggestions, @scrollaway!

1-4 – Added to trello. Many thanks!

5. LAMP

BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :)

Cheers!

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

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Post by josephsunny » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:52 PM UTC

scoufman wrote: post #132

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://…

Well, nothing to lose I guess. Easy process to set it up, servers are getting a little pounded the last few hours I guess :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/qigPCbYZ2

HN kiss of death, I guess :) We briefly went down to upgrade the server.

Glad to be your first supporter BTW. Thanks for trying us out!

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

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Post by josephsunny » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:52 PM UTC

neural_thing wrote: post #129

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://…

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sergey As others have noted, I would have liked to see what my page would look like before/when setting it up.

Noted. Welcome to BMC, Sergey! Happy to buy your first coffee.

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

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Post by zelon88 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:53 PM UTC

dulse wrote: post #13

Looks 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…

Well said.

A couple of my own observations...

1. The summertext text area doesn't like brackets. I tried to leave a "" everytime.

2. Center-justified profile text feels kinda wierd. At 1080p I feel there is too much negative space around the summary text. Perhaps a little wider on the text, left-justify, and then center the div containing the text.

3. Maybe you could add a user photo gallery section where users can upload images and/or files related to whatever they're looking for donations on?

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

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Post by josephsunny » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:53 PM UTC

tshibley wrote: post #105

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://…

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trevor Awesome setup process - wasn't expecting it to be that simple!

Thrilled to hear that. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Trevor. Glad to be your first supporter!

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

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Post by scrollaway » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:54 PM UTC

josephsunny wrote: post #133

scrollaway wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! You're crazy :) But ok! https://buymeacoff.ee/jleclanche Feedback: 1. My avatar wasn't picked up from Facebook, nor Gravatar. My email wasn't either. I think it's OK for you to request these from Facebook. 2. Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country. 3. Add an optional "Tell us why…

These are some very insightful suggestions, @scrollaway! 1-4 – Added to trello. Many thanks! 5. LAMP BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :) Cheers!

> 5. LAMP

MySQL+PHP? Any framework in particular? Just curious

> BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public

Sure, done.

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

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Post by josephsunny » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

merrywhether wrote: post #93

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://…

This post literally came at the right time for me as I was just looking into options for this exact functionality for my side project. Excited to give it a whirl. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/merrywhether

Awesome! Happy to be your first supporter :)

We're a tweet away if there's anything – https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee

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

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Post by josephsunny » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 8:58 PM UTC

jacobevelyn wrote: post #47

jacobevelyn wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome! Here's me: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JacobEvelyn Small pieces of feedback: - It's not super clear to me what I should put in "About you" vs. "Your story" - I noticed that the "Your story" section gets centered on the page, making bulleted lists look a bit weird (see my page) - I noticed that emoji don't work in the "Your story" section (this may be intentional) In general this looks really neat, nice work…

Oh, one more piece of feedback I forgot: I'm rather interdisciplinary. Is there a way to put myself into more than one category?

It's a popular request, and we avoided this to do justice to the design and the overall minimalist nature of the website. I'll be sure to bring this up in our next brainstorming session. Thanks!