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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 bebna »

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://buymeacoff.ee/bebna

Will keep it in reserve, I have some personal projects in the pipeline who could go over the free tiers of some cloud service providers. Perhaps the users want help me with that.

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

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Post by buildbuildbuild »

josephsunny wrote: post #142
edanm wrote: post #130

A question that immediately popped up in my mind was "how is this different from Patreon?". Searching here, I'm clearly not the only person to ask this, and the answer you gave seems to be "this is for one-time payments rather than recurring payments". It might be worth writing this or conveying this in some way explicitly, since this seems to be your big selling point.

Good question, @edanm. The differentiator b/w Patreon is more than the one-time donation factor. For one, BuyMeACoffee is geared towards creators of all sizes while Patreon works best for large creators. For one, creators require a Stripe account to use Patreon, which already limits it to the only 25 stripe-supported countries. Secondly, small creators with a passive audience find it hard to get monthly pledges from…

Congratulations on your launch, this familiar tipping model warms my heart as a musician who occasionally busks in NYC subways.

I'd love to see a "Music" category as well as support for recurring donations.

You advertise that it's free, but do Stripe and Paypal's fees get added on on the buyer's side or the receiver's side? Seems unclear. (During checkout is a $5 donation billed as $5 + whatever percent to the donor?)

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

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Post by I-M-S »

josephsunny wrote: post #249
I-M-S wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, just created an account: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ims Two questions: 1. I'm not clear how exactly do I send (or give access to) bonus content to my supporters? 2. Do you plan to add "podcasts" as a category? And how do I select the category in the first place? Cheers!

Hi there! 1. Check out the 'Locked content' feature in the updates section - https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee/status/96093211031909171... 2. You are free to type in the category in the 'What do you do?' section. Many podcasters are already using BMC, and we will soon feature the category on our explore page. Finally, thanks for trying us out. Please choose a payout method to make your page public.

Thank you for your reply! I will do that as soon as I am ready to launch my podcast in a couple of months :)

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

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Post by igorkraw »

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://…

That is really nice of you:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k

changed the link to: https://buymeacoff.ee/igork

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

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Post by Improvotter »

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…

> 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.

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

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Post by newscracker »

> We plan to charge a 5% platform fee in the future to support future development and expansion. So when a creator receives $100 from supporters, BMC will earn a $5 platform fee.

I read a great argument on a HN comment about how a percentage fee looks inappropriate and very expensive when implemented without a cap or ceiling. [1] I'd recommend that this factor be considered and there be a cap or ceiling set on the platform fee.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327495

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

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Post by tpxl »

Hey, the page redirects me to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/?... when I try to access it which then shows an error of "The URI you submitted has disallowed characters." Changing the URL to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/?PageSpeed=noscript%27 works.

Edit: It redirects to a similar URL when clicking any links on the webpage, so it's broken with noScript enabled.

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

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Post by chimen »

patja wrote: post #33

I feel this is unintentionally going to the lowest end of this space with the whole "buy me a coffee" message and brand. I run a site which is 100% monetized through voluntary donations and I would never use language like buy me a beer/buy me a coffee for it. It feels like you are marginalizing your work to the hobby/side-project realm with low expectations. We strive for $40 a year as a target donation from those wh…

Interested on implementing it myself for a project. I would really appreciate if you could share some numbers. How many donating (% from visitors), avg amount etc. Any stats would help. Thank you.

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

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Post by abetusk »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #55

If anyone would like a similar self-hosted/FOSS option, I wrote this: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/fosspay I use it here: https://drewdevault.com/donate Another instance in the wild: https://donate.mastodon.club/

I'm sorry but this is so clearly a much better step in the right direction. As slick as the 'buy me a coffee' site is and as nice as Patreon is, I can't help shake the feeling that it's only a matter of time before the company goes under, or they sell my data, or they engage in other shady shenanigans.

I would trust a 'buy me a coffee' site so much more if it were managed by somone like Sir_Cmpwn with a FOSS backed system. I wish we would start moving more towards FOSS infrastructure.

Why FOSS isn't the norm, especially for systems dealing with money, is beyond me.

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

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Post by newscracker »

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://…

Great offer on waiving off the fee. I'm a privacy nut, and though I realize you're doing this for publicity (at least on Twitter), I would prefer a method that's directly done on your platform. Perhaps something like a code or something that one could enter in the bio or elsewhere would be nice.
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