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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

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 https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/968630079285686273 Check out some 'Buy Me A Coffee' pages: https://buymeacoff.ee/kriswolf https://buymeacoff.ee/kriswolf https://www.buymeacoffee.com/joqatana https://www.buymeacoffee.com/joqatana FEATURES: - Exclusive content: Publish supporter-only content on your BuyMeACoffee page to encourage more donations. – Multiple payment/payout options: Paypal and Stripe (direct bank transfer). – One-click payment for supporters. – Showcase your goals and comments left by other supporters. – Beautiful (and customizable) 'Buy me a coffee' button to embed on websites + Wordpress plugin with widgets and stats (https://wordpress.org/plugins/buymeacoffee/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/buymeacoffee/). – Domain name. They say the domain speaks for itself ;) – In the pipeline: Cryptocurrency Wix and Weebly plugin, more payment options (Bitcoin, Apple Pay, Android Pay), referral program and much more. We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! We'd also love to be your first supporter. Tweet (https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee) or reply here with your beautiful ‘Buy Me A Coffee’ link (takes less than a minute to set up) to claim it. Let us know what you think :) Cheers!

craftyguy 9y ago
Too bad we can't view your terms/conditions without enabling JavaScript. When I try, I get this broken link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms?PageSpeed=noscript%27 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/t... Edit: actually it looks like the link on your homepage to terms is broken.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Weird. Terms page is working fine from our side, and is linked correctly from the homepage: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms Can you try again please?
  - craftyguy 9y ago
    Clicking that like redirects me to this busted url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms?PageSpeed=noscript%27 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/t...
  - canvasduck 9y ago
    Works fine for me.
AFNobody 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/afnobody https://buymeacoff.ee/afnobody :p
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Welcome to BuyMeACoffee! Your platform fee is waived for lifetime; and glad to buy your first coffee :)
canvasduck 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stephenhan https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stephenhan
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Welcome to BuyMeACoffee Stephen! Glad to be your first supporter :)
arrayjumper 9y ago
This looks nice! How does your product compare with Patreon? (edit:) The difference I notice about it is that this looks a lot less demanding than Patreon. A lot more laissez faire if you will. Oh and, https://buymeacoff.ee/nettem https://buymeacoff.ee/nettem :)
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks, @arrayjumper! Patreon works best for creators with a huge loyal following, those who are most likely to pledge a monthly donation. Small creators find it difficult to raise any money at all from Patreon. I think it's a decent idea to provide fans with an option of quick one-time payment since many do not like the idea of going through the long process of signing up and paying monthly.
michaelbrooks 9y ago
Awesome website and I hope it kicks off. :) https://buymeacoff.ee/michaelbrooks https://buymeacoff.ee/michaelbrooks
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks, Michael! Welcome to BMC, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
BoorishBears 9y ago
Had to get this link, https://buymeacoff.ee/here https://buymeacoff.ee/here
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pvg 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing it on the pages but it this seems somewhat important for a company that handles money - there's no mention of who or where you are, who the principals are, etc. The terms seem a little slapdash, there's a bit about being 'partnered with Stripe' (are you? or does that just mean you use Stripe for processing?).
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Yes, we are using Stripe to process payments. We also used Stripe Atlas to incorporate. We are not partnered with them in any other way. Sorry if the copy is misleading, we'll correct it.
  - pvg 9y ago
    The broader thing is probably more important. You are handling money on behalf of other people, right? That should involve a general air of clarity transparency throughout otherwise you end up looking (perhaps totally unintentionally and unwittingly) like a scam. Namelessness, locationlessness, terms-with-no-applicable-law, etc all increase the aura of scamminess.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  FWIW it's not legal to operate a website in the EU for a business (including sole-traders) without having a bricks-and-mortar address given. This http://www.ukwda.org/blog/is-your-website-legal http://www.ukwda.org/blog/is-your-website-legal is for UK, but cites the EU legislation. I wonder how these sites work with EU "value added tax" regulations, a couple of years ago new rules came in that need fastidious record keeping - whilst this is "donations" it seems it might be considered "voluntary payments for goods/services" which presumably attract tax confusions?
jacobevelyn 9y ago
Awesome! Here's me: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JacobEvelyn 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!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thank you, and these are some great points! - 'About you' is more like a small two-liner that'll show right above the payment widget. - You're right. This is a known issue, and we will fix it with the next update. - BMC is emoji-friendly (even for supporter comments). We'll look into this right away. Cheers!
  - jacobevelyn 9y ago
    Thanks!
- jacobevelyn 9y ago
  Oh, one more piece of feedback I forgot: I'm rather interdisciplinary. Is there a way to put myself into more than one category?
  - subhobroto 9y ago
    +1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486185
  - josephsunny 9y ago
    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!
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zyio 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wp-login.php https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wp-login.php Cheers!
- dkroy 9y ago
  Haha, that's pretty clever.
- jffry 9y ago
  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/humans.txt https://www.buymeacoffee.com/humans.txt :)
jonathonf 9y ago
Anything that lowers the friction for people who want to donate can only be a good thing. And sure, why not: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jonathon https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jonathon
- josephsunny 9y ago
  True that. Welcome to BMC, Jonathan. Enjoy a coffee on the house :)
albinowax_ 9y ago
Looks cool, I've made one here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/albinowax https://www.buymeacoffee.com/albinowax - I'll add the button to http://hackxor.net/ http://hackxor.net/ shortly. PS looking forward to cryptocurrency support!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Awesome! Crypto - we're on it. It should be live in a week or two max. Thanks for trying us out, and happy to buy your first coffee :)
avb 9y ago
Setup was fast and easy. I like the simplicity of it so far. https://buymeacoff.ee/avb https://buymeacoff.ee/avb
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thank you for the kind words, @avb. Making the product minimal and frictionless was our #1 priority from day one. Glad to be your first supporter :)
danielmichaelni 9y ago
I can see this being great for youtubers. I'm excited for future crypto support! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danielni https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danielni
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greysonp 9y ago
http://buymeacoff.ee/greyson http://buymeacoff.ee/greyson Looks great! Would love to see a baby dropdown option that let's users set their own price, but the site looks awesome!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  That's a neat idea, Greyson. Currently, supporters can quickly click one of those preset counts (1, 3, 5) to buy more coffees and it seems to be working really well. More than half of the donations are more than one coffee. Welcome to BMC! :)
shinski 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/donshinski https://buymeacoff.ee/donshinski appreciate your work, also looking forward to crypto support, cheers!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Welcome to BMC, Don! Crypto support is just around the corner and we're equally excited :)
PeteyCodes 9y ago
I like the simplicity of the site, and the clean design. Get in, donate, get out. Easy. https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Yep, trying to make it as frictionless as possible :) Thanks for trying us out. Glad to be your first supporter!
merrywhether 9y ago
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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/merrywhether
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Awesome! Happy to be your first supporter :) We're a tweet away if there's anything – https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee
tshibley 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trevor https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trevor Awesome setup process - wasn't expecting it to be that simple!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thrilled to hear that. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Trevor. Glad to be your first supporter!
subhobroto 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/subhobroto https://www.buymeacoffee.com/subhobroto The onboarding experience was great. As you grow, the page settings will need to evolve to support branding that concent creators have already decided on. Also, the 'save' button on the pages did not give me any indication that my changes were saved (like a green checkmark or some sort of a banner) +1 to the idea of having more than one category (and a goal for each category). I like to write about healthcare, automotive repair and business. There's little overlap in the audience. Thank you for building this!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Very thoughtful feedback, Subhobroto. Good to have you on board. Save button UX is a known issue, although we never thought of it as a 'bug' to fix it. We'll reconsider this. Thanks for noticing. Thanks, and happy to be your first supporter on BMC!
fady 9y ago
just signed up! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xrp https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xrp
- josephsunny 9y ago
  That's a beautiful Buy Me A Coffee page, @fady. Glad to be your first supporter!
scrollaway 9y ago
> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! You're crazy :) But ok! https://buymeacoff.ee/jleclanche 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" textbox when I click "Delete my account". Seriously, do this early. :) 4. I see you are using Stripe Checkout.js for payment methods. Switch to Stripe Elements (https://stripe.com/elements https://stripe.com/elements) and the Source API to get the option to support a range of other payment methods as well as 3d secure and such. 5. What's your stack?
- swastika 9y ago
  > Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country. This is a good catch! The problem though is BMC will now have to keep the country data updated from Stripe, unless Stripe provides it over their API
  - scrollaway 9y ago
    I meant during onboarding, Stripe was showing up as both disabled and recommended.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  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!
  - scrollaway 9y ago
    > 5. LAMP MySQL+PHP? Any framework in particular? Just curious > BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public Sure, done.
swastika 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/swastika https://www.buymeacoffee.com/swastika :) > - Exclusive content: Publish supporter-only content on your BuyMeACoffee page to encourage more donations. Would BMC host this content? What would happen if the content went viral?
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Exclusive content = texts, links, and video embed for now. We're not hosting anything ATM. File upload is on our roadmap, but creators seem to be pretty satisfied with the current set up :) BTW welcome to BuyMeACoffee! Happy to buy your first coffee.
neural_thing 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sergey 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.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Noted. Welcome to BMC, Sergey! Happy to buy your first coffee.
scoufman 9y ago
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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/qigPCbYZ2
- josephsunny 9y ago
  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!
  - rtrigoso 9y ago
    better upgrade again, the site is looking broken atm
hacym 9y ago
Nice and easy to setup. https://buymeacoff.ee/mycah https://buymeacoff.ee/mycah Might be cool to have the ability to change it from coffee to something else.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  True, you can do it with the buttons though (custom text, font, color etc.). It's pretty cool. Thanks for trying us out, Mycah. Enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
domsl 9y ago
Wow. Thank you. I think it is very beautifully made. https://buymeacoff.ee/ddominik https://buymeacoff.ee/ddominik I recently started blogging, so I am very happy to come across this :)
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Perfect timing, I guess :) Good to have you on board, Dominik! P.S Your platform fee is waived. Happy to be your first supporter :)
  - domsl 9y ago
    Thank you! :)
  - redindian75 9y ago
    Stripe/Credit Card (2.9% +.30) fees still apply - right?
SeriousLemon 9y ago
Looks great :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeriousLemon https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeriousLemon
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks, @SeriousLemon! Happy to be your first supporter :)
pc_junk 9y ago
Awesome, been looking for something like this. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stuff https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stuff Any chance of a webhook for donation notifications?
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Yes! Coming soon. Enjoy the 'Someone bought you 5 coffees' emails until then :) Glad to be your first supporter BTW!
fishmorefish 9y ago
I'd love to see this take off :) Made my page https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz
- josephsunny 9y ago
  <3 We'd love that too :D Welcome to BuyMeACoffee!
nikivi 9y ago
This is awesome. I mostly do Open Source and I think BuyMeACoffee compliments Patreon really well. Thank you for the offer. There is only one issue where you can't attach a link to a more than a one word. I wish you could do that. My page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nikitavoloboev https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nikitavoloboev
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Good to hear that, @nikivi! Glad to be the first one to buy you coffee. > There is only one issue where you can't attach a link to a more than a one word. I wish you could do that. This is a known issue, and we'll fix with an update first thing tomorrow. Thanks for noticing!
Estyn 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/estyn https://www.buymeacoffee.com/estyn Surprisingly easy to sign up and use
- josephsunny 9y ago
  :) That's what we like to hear! Welcome to BMC, @estyn.
aapusaam 9y ago
I just created my page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da Thanks for a simple and easy onboarding process!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Glad you like it, @aapusaam! Enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
billyshih 9y ago
This is awesome, thank you! Here's my page: https://buymeacoff.ee/billy https://buymeacoff.ee/billy
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Welcome to BMC, Billy. Nice username BTW :) Glad to be the first one to buy you coffee!
tunesmith 9y ago
Thanks for waiving the platform fee! https://buymeacoff.ee/tunesmith https://buymeacoff.ee/tunesmith
- josephsunny 9y ago
  You're welcome, and thanks for trying us out, @tunesmith. Please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee!
  - tunesmith 9y ago
    Whoops! Thanks - I finished that part of it now. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tunesmith https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tunesmith
alphaoide 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/framingthesky https://www.buymeacoffee.com/framingthesky I uploaded an avatar with portrait dimension but it looks like your system turned it to a square improperly (the avatar looks squished)
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Noted. Sorry for the trouble, Joshua. Do accept the apology coffee :) Cheers!
philplckthun 9y ago
So A) I just love coffee, and B) the design and illustrations of the site are just so thoughtful, I just had to sign up <3 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ I have never considered to accept donations for my open source work, but letting people "buy me a coffee" is quite literally what I've been telling people if they're ever thankful, and likewise what I'd offer them. Thank you for creating this!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  You're welcome and thanks for putting it so nicely! I agree that it's the most friendly way to give your audience an option to thank you.
pwinnski 9y ago
I was on the fence, but a lifetime waived fee is irresistible! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plwinn https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plwinn
- josephsunny 9y ago
  It sure is :) Welcome to BMC, Winn! Glad to be your first supporter, and waive the platform fee.
nabeards 9y ago
Just tried to sign up, but it appears the Stripe form doesn't work on iOS Safari. Can reproduce by filling out the whole form, not entering a phone number, hit submit. Then, I get a brief error that my phone number needs entered, which then skips directly down to bank account numbers not matching (which they do) and then, suddenly, the account number changes to my autofill password. Very odd behavior!
- nabeards 9y ago
  Oh, and it looks like your system doesn't accept the cancel back through the API. I just get a page that says "The user denied your request."
  - nabeards 9y ago
    Did get it setup from my computer, thanks! http://buymeacoffee.com/nabeards http://buymeacoffee.com/nabeards
notaresearcher 9y ago
Sign up was a breeze. Thanks for this. https://buymeacoff.ee/researcher https://buymeacoff.ee/researcher
- josephsunny 9y ago
  You're welcome and thank you for trying us out. Nice username BTW :) Glad to buy your first coffee on the platform!
alwillis 9y ago
Love the UI/UX… this how everything should work in 2018. And thanks for your offer for HN users! Quite awesome of you. Here’s my page link: https://buymeacoff.ee/alwillis https://buymeacoff.ee/alwillis
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thank you for the kind words, @alwillis! Appreciate it. Please choose a payout method on BuyMeACoffee to make your page public. Waiting to view the page. Cheers!
huuyngo 9y ago
Signing up was seamless. I will look forward to using BMC in the future. Thank you for waiving the platform fee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeBEI93 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeBEI93
- josephsunny 9y ago
  You're welcome, @huuyngo. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee! I just bought your first coffee and waived the platform fee associated with your account. Thanks for trying us out.
jessicaszeto 9y ago
This looks perfect for some of my upcoming projects! I just have a comment that the price of an individual "coffee" should be more obvious because it might not be clear before you look at the Buy button total (which is a bit low-contrast anyway). At first glance, the 1-3-5 looks like the dollar amount you're donating, not a multiplier of a coffee cup since the coffee doesn't have the actual price anywhere. Especially considering that a coffee price can differ from $3-$5 depending on each person's settings, I would go for clarity and either put the price in front of the coffee cup or use a coffee cup icon that has the price on it. I'm super excited to try this out though! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JessicaSzeto https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JessicaSzeto
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks for the kind words, Jessica. Very helpful suggestion. I've added this to our Trello and will look into this very soon. Happy to be your first supporter on the platform :)
d99kris 9y ago
Thanks! Here's my link: https://buymeacoff.ee/d99kris https://buymeacoff.ee/d99kris Very smooth signup experience.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  That's what we want to hear! :) Welcome to BuyMeACoffee. Platform fee associated with your account has been waived, and glad to be the first one to contribute.
jeremydavid 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoff.ee/tarot https://www.buymeacoff.ee/tarot :)
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks for trying us out :) Glad to be your first supporter!
mcdoh 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/mcdoh https://buymeacoff.ee/mcdoh
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Hi there! It looks like you have not selected a payout method. Please choose between Paypal or Stripe to make your page public. Cheers!
  - mcdoh 9y ago
    I just set up with Stripe. I'm looking forward to getting Buy Me a Coffee set up tomorrow night. Thank you so much!!
johnpowell 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stfu https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stfu Added the button to a little forum I run. It was easy enough to set up. I previously had no advertising or anything on the site.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Awesome! Thanks for trying us out, @johnpowell. Fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
thomaspark 9y ago
Great execution, plan to give is a whirl: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Awesome! Thanks for trying us out, Thomas. Glad to be your first supporter on the platform.
shurcooL 9y ago
> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! We'd also love to be your first supporter. I'll take you up on that offer. https://buymeacoff.ee/shurcooL https://buymeacoff.ee/shurcooL Thanks! Some feedback from my signup experience: 1. I saw someone in the comments mentioning that it'd be nice to be able to connect payout methods later, and a reply said there was a "skip for now" button. So, I was looking to use it (not expecting to get a lot of coffee at this time...). However, the page asking to pick Stripe or PayPal came up, and there was no "skip for now" button anywhere in sight. I was taken aback a bit. I was thinking maybe I just need to click on the dashboard link on top, but was worried that might rip me out of the onboarding flow... In the end, I decided to just add a Stripe account now. So I picked Stripe (over PayPal), and THEN it gave me the offer to skip adding it. What!? Why show the "skip adding payment info for now" option only after making the user go through the decision of picking a payment provider? I'd rather have seen the button on the first page. Of course, then it said my page wouldn't be visible publicly until I do add one, so there wasn't a point in skipping anyway. That whole "make a decision about payment/actually you can do that later/actually you have to do it now" experience felt unfriendly and probably could be improved. 2. On the Dashboard, there's "What do you do?" input with an input field. It shows some pre-populated (I presume) options when you begin typing. I wanted to pick something that best describes me (open source software engineer working mostly with Go), so I wanted to see all the options available. But I could only see them if I type at least one letter. So I tried typing A, B, C, etc. In the end, I was able to get a gist of what categories were there and which ones weren't (there's "Developer", but nothing else quite fitting), but I had to go in a roundabout way of accomplishing it. Perhaps this could be made friendlier too. (Just a normal dropdown that shows all options when clicked, maybe?) P.S. That's a nice growth strategy.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks for the comprehensive feedback, Dmitri. 1. You're right, and this is a known confusion. We're trying to come up with a more straightforward solution. Thanks for noticing! 2. You do not necessarily have to pick one from the given categories. Please feel free to use the title that best describes what you do. P.S Platform fee associated with your account has been waived, and the first coffee is served :)
pping 9y ago
Thanks for the waiver! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ping https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ping
archagon 9y ago
Made a link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/UeaBnjrb7 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/UeaBnjrb7 FYI, the text fields when inserting a link are switched around.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, @archagon. Just bought you your first coffee :) Link issue is noted. We'll take a look.
  - archagon 9y ago
    Thank you! :)
xzion 9y ago
Easy onboarding, thanks! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks, Coen! Fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
ayngg 9y ago
I actually came across your service a little while ago and figured that it had already been around for a long time, surprised that it is actually quite new. Best of luck and thanks! https://buymeacoff.ee/ayng https://buymeacoff.ee/ayng
- josephsunny 9y ago
  'Buy me a coffee' is such a popular term online that we have this unfair advantage of sounding like an old service :) Thanks for trying us out, @ayngg. Your platform fee is waived, and glad to be your first supporter!
I-M-S 9y ago
Hi, just created an account: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ims 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!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Hi there! 1. Check out the 'Locked content' feature in the updates section - https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee/status/960932110319091717/ 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.
  - I-M-S 9y ago
    Thank you for your reply! I will do that as soon as I am ready to launch my podcast in a couple of months :)
qacek 9y ago
Very cool! Thank you :) https://buymeacoff.ee/jwkvam https://buymeacoff.ee/jwkvam
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thanks for trying us out, Jacques! Your platform fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
schmich 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/schmich https://buymeacoff.ee/schmich Great way to promote your site. Onboarding was as easy as it gets. I'm a software developer with a job, but I also have open source projects that stretch out beyond the horizon. Some are much more successful than others, and I've been considering accepting donations for a while. I don't have the hardcore following that would support something like Patreon, but I have enough of an audience where something like BMAC might work. Cryptocurrency support would be interesting as well. I've considered setting up wallets for just this purpose. Quick feedback: 1) The creator pages feel undifferentiated (colors/icons/themes/imagery). Upsides: consistency for your platform, simplicity for creators, fewer knobs, less myspace-esque junkery. Downsides: impersonal, bland, might feel cheap/unimportant. I'm not sure where I fall on the spectrum, just a fleeting thought. 2) Under "What do you do?" on my profile, I wanted to put "Open Source Software Developer" to stress the open and contributing nature of my work, but the input's maxlength was 20. I edited it to 35 and it worked, so clearly the backend supports longer descriptions ;) Maybe raise the maxlength on the field?
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Glad you like the product, Chris; and thanks a ton for all these suggestions. Let me tackle them one by one. 1. Customizable creator page was a topic of debate for us from day one :) You have beautifully shared the ups and downs of it. I've noted it and will bring this up in our next brainstorming session. 2. Haha, nice find. Just shared this on our slack. Let us see what we can do without affecting the design :) Thanks for noticing!
lf6648 9y ago
Just what I have been looking for, at the exact moment I was looking for it :-) Unfortunately I already bought my first coffee on credit this morning, but I'm sure more will come in a short while! (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/laurent https://www.buymeacoffee.com/laurent) The signup and profile customisation processes are highly user-friendly, and just worked the way they should! (so no bad user experience feedback for you from my side, unfortunately :) ) Thanks a lot for your great work!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Haha, that's not a sad news at all. Thank you for such a positive feedback, Laurent.
yagyu 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Jonase https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Jonase Cool, thanks a lot! Sign up was smooth on Android chrome, but I managed to misunderstand the save button once in the edit page. I pressed save and went to hamburger menu-your page, and all changes were lost. Turns out url I chose first was taken, but the error message upon saving was off screen for me so I did not see it.. No biggie, very friendly interface. I like that I got my initials on the logo cup :) buy whoever made that a coffee..
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Awesome, happy to see you notice the little things we did (you should check out the 404-page too :D). I've noted the UI issue. We'll look into it right away. Thanks, and welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Jonas!
pikdum 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/pikdum https://buymeacoff.ee/pikdum I like it. I've been thinking about setting up a donation system to help cover hosting costs for a few sites, but never got around to it. This was painless to get set up and hooked up with an existing PayPal account, and easy enough to use that my users might actually chip in (doubt they would bother with platforms like Patreon or making new accounts). Definitely enjoying how simple and clean the UX is.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Spot on. That is exactly the problem that we're trying to solve. Making donations as friendly, frictionless and straightforward as possible. Glad you like it, @pikdum.
zepn 9y ago
That's fantastic, thank you! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/np https://www.buymeacoffee.com/np Is it possible to further reduce the minimum supporter amount (to, say, $1?) - or customize it?
- josephsunny 9y ago
  It is not :( Do you think such a feature would be useful? We went with $3, $4, and $5 after careful research and a poll among creators. Welcome to BMC! Platform fee is waived, and the first coffee served :)
odqs 9y ago
A fantastic product, thanks! https://buymeacoff.ee/14WkfhG https://buymeacoff.ee/14WkfhG
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Woohoo! Thanks. Happy to welcome you with a coffee.
robertd789 9y ago
Really nice! https://buymeacoff.ee/robertd https://buymeacoff.ee/robertd
arathunku 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arathunku https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arathunku Beautiful site, good luck!
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thank you, welcome to BMC! Glad to be your first supporter on the platform :)
jhauberg 9y ago
I've been on the lookout for something like this recently, and this thing appeared at a pretty opportune time. I'm spending a lot of my spare time making open-source stuff over at GitHub, and even though it's all too niche to ever see widespread use, i'd like to at least have an option to receive support through donations from anyone who likes my work. I'm not sure that i'd be using the social features that you offer; i.e. posting updates and such- i'm mostly interested in the ability to put a link/button on my READMEs, but that seems to be very easy. I've signed up as https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jhauberg https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jhauberg :)
QasimK 9y ago
I like how straightforward everything is. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/QasimK https://www.buymeacoffee.com/QasimK I agree with previous comments that the trustworthiness (likeliness to donate) could be increased by giving actual information about the people and company behind the website, especially as money is involved. Also, it's impossible to get to the footer on some pages because of the endless infinite scroll. All I wanted to do was click FAQ but I can't :( Finally, do you not verify email addresses?
keraf 9y ago
Hope I'm not late to the party :) My page is https://buymeacoff.ee/keraf https://buymeacoff.ee/keraf Nice site, good luck with it!
bebna 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/bebna 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.
igorkraw 9y ago
That is really nice of you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k changed the link to: https://buymeacoff.ee/igork https://buymeacoff.ee/igork
newscracker 9y ago
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.
Fileformat 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fileformat https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fileformat
karimf 9y ago
Neat project! Here's my link https://buymeacoff.ee/fikrikarim https://buymeacoff.ee/fikrikarim I wonder if this kind of "reply here" way is encouraged on HN. Yes this will get a lot of traction, but I rarely see this on HN. Hope this post doesn't trigger the "flame war detection" [1] [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md#flame-war-detector https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
itsnibs 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/nibs https://buymeacoff.ee/nibs Lovely (and lively!) project, glad it's been posted here. Quite spare design. No flaws signing up. It'll be a treat to experiment.
bluehatbrit 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/elliot https://buymeacoff.ee/elliot This site looks awesome, really cool to see what you're doing and I really hope it takes off! A little bit of feedback: 1. You really show offer a button in markdown format. The HTML one doesn't work on a github markdown document without losing all the styles because of github markdown security. 2. Because I had to use the image for markdown, I noticed that the image is pretty fuzzy on a retina screen. The whole thing is quite low res, might be worth doing a 3x one if you can? 3. It'd be great for a user to see the price they're donating and then just change it with a slide or input field. At the moment jus x1, x2, x3 is not only limiting but also quite hidden. A coffee in the UK is quite different to a coffee in Norway for instance. It also means someone can give much more if they'd like which is great for creators! Perhaps allow the creator to set a suggested and minimum donation, you can then cap at say $5 minimum, but have a suggested of $10 and the user can choose a value from there. If you wanted to keep the coffee analogy, you could have a nice little SVG which changes to a more extravagant coffee the bigger it gets, maybe eventually turning into a coffee machine at X amount. 4. I feel like I probably shouldn't be forced to setup a payment provider to get going, it makes it a lot more work to get up and running as a user of the platform. 5. It'd be fantastic if I could see where people came from when they donated. Perhaps they came from npm, github, or my blog, each is very different and lets me experiment with what's working and what's pointless. Great platform, just what I've been looking for recently!
- jhauberg 9y ago
  I would love to see improvements to "the button" as well.
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Hey Elliot, Glad you like the platform, and thanks for sharing those thoughtful suggestions. We've already started working on it. 1. Noted. We're doing a complete revamp of buttons and widgets with step-by-step instructions on how to use on popular platforms like Medium, GitHub etc. 2. Very true. Work in progress. 3. We want to keep the coffee analogy, but I get your point and we'll work out a solution. Thanks for the suggestion. 4. Answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491026. Hope it's relevant. 5. That's a good idea. We'll see if we can somehow share referrer stats without cluttering the dashboard. Thanks again for all these suggestion. Cheers!
philbarr 9y ago
This looks great! Here's my link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/philbarr https://www.buymeacoffee.com/philbarr I've suffered with eczema all my life and am working on a webapp to help people monitor their eczema, since constant monitoring of what you eat / drink / do / everything is one of the best ways to control eczema. Couldn't really think of a way to fund it before and will try this. Thanks!
NickLamp 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DiFUVw9HK https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DiFUVw9HK
akashakya 9y ago
looks great! my link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/akashh https://www.buymeacoffee.com/akashh
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Thank you, @akashakya! Please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :)
haveanupvote 9y ago
I haven't been soliciting donations before, but seems like a possibility I should follow up, so: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neaj https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neaj :-)
Eli_ 9y ago
Sign me up! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Eli https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Eli
Eisfreak7 9y ago
> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! Thanks! I like the simple design, I'll check it out. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hb4xENh6c https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hb4xENh6c
levidxyz 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/levidxyz https://www.buymeacoffee.com/levidxyz Thanks!! Excited to try this out.
SebKba 9y ago
https://buymeacoff.ee/sebster https://buymeacoff.ee/sebster The signup process is great. On the donations page I think the $ amount should be displayed in the same box as the number of coffees or allow people to enter a usd amount as well or number of coffees. Now it's only visible on the button which I didn't see immediately. Cheers!
tygertec 9y ago
Wow this is great! First I'd heard of your platform. Onboarding was quick and painless. Late to the party, but here I am: https://buymeacoff.ee/tygerbytes https://buymeacoff.ee/tygerbytes
- josephsunny 9y ago
  Not late at all. Thanks for trying us out, Ty! Your platform fee is waived, and I'm glad to buy your first coffee <3
  - tygertec 9y ago
    Thanks, Joseph! You're too kind. :)
voussoir 9y ago
Hey thanks for doing this HN special https://www.buymeacoffee.com/voussoir https://www.buymeacoffee.com/voussoir I like the art style and the overall appearance a lot. My only suggestion is to make the actual dollar amount on the donation page more apparent. Personally I would expect the price to be in the same box as the multiplier but instead it's all the way down in the button, in a faint color. Makes me hesitant like I don't know what I'm getting into. Good luck with the site!

craftyguy 9y ago

Too bad we can't view your terms/conditions without enabling JavaScript. When I try, I get this broken link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms?PageSpeed=noscript%27 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/t... Edit: actually it looks like the link on your homepage to terms is broken.

josephsunny 9y ago
Weird. Terms page is working fine from our side, and is linked correctly from the homepage: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms Can you try again please?
- craftyguy 9y ago
  Clicking that like redirects me to this busted url: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/terms?PageSpeed=noscript%27 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/t...
- canvasduck 9y ago
  Works fine for me.

AFNobody 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/afnobody https://buymeacoff.ee/afnobody :p

josephsunny 9y ago
Welcome to BuyMeACoffee! Your platform fee is waived for lifetime; and glad to buy your first coffee :)

canvasduck 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stephenhan https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stephenhan

josephsunny 9y ago
Welcome to BuyMeACoffee Stephen! Glad to be your first supporter :)

arrayjumper 9y ago

This looks nice! How does your product compare with Patreon? (edit:) The difference I notice about it is that this looks a lot less demanding than Patreon. A lot more laissez faire if you will. Oh and, https://buymeacoff.ee/nettem https://buymeacoff.ee/nettem :)

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks, @arrayjumper! Patreon works best for creators with a huge loyal following, those who are most likely to pledge a monthly donation. Small creators find it difficult to raise any money at all from Patreon. I think it's a decent idea to provide fans with an option of quick one-time payment since many do not like the idea of going through the long process of signing up and paying monthly.

michaelbrooks 9y ago

Awesome website and I hope it kicks off. :) https://buymeacoff.ee/michaelbrooks https://buymeacoff.ee/michaelbrooks

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks, Michael! Welcome to BMC, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

BoorishBears 9y ago

Had to get this link, https://buymeacoff.ee/here https://buymeacoff.ee/here

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pvg 9y ago

Maybe I'm missing it on the pages but it this seems somewhat important for a company that handles money - there's no mention of who or where you are, who the principals are, etc. The terms seem a little slapdash, there's a bit about being 'partnered with Stripe' (are you? or does that just mean you use Stripe for processing?).

josephsunny 9y ago
Yes, we are using Stripe to process payments. We also used Stripe Atlas to incorporate. We are not partnered with them in any other way. Sorry if the copy is misleading, we'll correct it.
- pvg 9y ago
  The broader thing is probably more important. You are handling money on behalf of other people, right? That should involve a general air of clarity transparency throughout otherwise you end up looking (perhaps totally unintentionally and unwittingly) like a scam. Namelessness, locationlessness, terms-with-no-applicable-law, etc all increase the aura of scamminess.
pbhjpbhj 9y ago
FWIW it's not legal to operate a website in the EU for a business (including sole-traders) without having a bricks-and-mortar address given. This http://www.ukwda.org/blog/is-your-website-legal http://www.ukwda.org/blog/is-your-website-legal is for UK, but cites the EU legislation. I wonder how these sites work with EU "value added tax" regulations, a couple of years ago new rules came in that need fastidious record keeping - whilst this is "donations" it seems it might be considered "voluntary payments for goods/services" which presumably attract tax confusions?

jacobevelyn 9y ago

Awesome! Here's me: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JacobEvelyn 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!

josephsunny 9y ago
Thank you, and these are some great points! - 'About you' is more like a small two-liner that'll show right above the payment widget. - You're right. This is a known issue, and we will fix it with the next update. - BMC is emoji-friendly (even for supporter comments). We'll look into this right away. Cheers!
- jacobevelyn 9y ago
  Thanks!
jacobevelyn 9y ago
Oh, one more piece of feedback I forgot: I'm rather interdisciplinary. Is there a way to put myself into more than one category?
- subhobroto 9y ago
  +1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486185
- josephsunny 9y ago
  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!
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zyio 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wp-login.php https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wp-login.php Cheers!

dkroy 9y ago
Haha, that's pretty clever.
jffry 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/humans.txt https://www.buymeacoffee.com/humans.txt :)

jonathonf 9y ago

Anything that lowers the friction for people who want to donate can only be a good thing. And sure, why not: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jonathon https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jonathon

josephsunny 9y ago
True that. Welcome to BMC, Jonathan. Enjoy a coffee on the house :)

albinowax_ 9y ago

Looks cool, I've made one here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/albinowax https://www.buymeacoffee.com/albinowax - I'll add the button to http://hackxor.net/ http://hackxor.net/ shortly. PS looking forward to cryptocurrency support!

josephsunny 9y ago
Awesome! Crypto - we're on it. It should be live in a week or two max. Thanks for trying us out, and happy to buy your first coffee :)

avb 9y ago

Setup was fast and easy. I like the simplicity of it so far. https://buymeacoff.ee/avb https://buymeacoff.ee/avb

josephsunny 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words, @avb. Making the product minimal and frictionless was our #1 priority from day one. Glad to be your first supporter :)

danielmichaelni 9y ago

I can see this being great for youtubers. I'm excited for future crypto support! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danielni https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danielni

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greysonp 9y ago

http://buymeacoff.ee/greyson http://buymeacoff.ee/greyson Looks great! Would love to see a baby dropdown option that let's users set their own price, but the site looks awesome!

josephsunny 9y ago
That's a neat idea, Greyson. Currently, supporters can quickly click one of those preset counts (1, 3, 5) to buy more coffees and it seems to be working really well. More than half of the donations are more than one coffee. Welcome to BMC! :)

shinski 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/donshinski https://buymeacoff.ee/donshinski appreciate your work, also looking forward to crypto support, cheers!

josephsunny 9y ago
Welcome to BMC, Don! Crypto support is just around the corner and we're equally excited :)

PeteyCodes 9y ago

I like the simplicity of the site, and the clean design. Get in, donate, get out. Easy. https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes

josephsunny 9y ago
Yep, trying to make it as frictionless as possible :) Thanks for trying us out. Glad to be your first supporter!

merrywhether 9y ago

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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/merrywhether

josephsunny 9y ago
Awesome! Happy to be your first supporter :) We're a tweet away if there's anything – https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee

tshibley 9y ago

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

josephsunny 9y ago
Thrilled to hear that. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Trevor. Glad to be your first supporter!

subhobroto 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/subhobroto https://www.buymeacoffee.com/subhobroto The onboarding experience was great. As you grow, the page settings will need to evolve to support branding that concent creators have already decided on. Also, the 'save' button on the pages did not give me any indication that my changes were saved (like a green checkmark or some sort of a banner) +1 to the idea of having more than one category (and a goal for each category). I like to write about healthcare, automotive repair and business. There's little overlap in the audience. Thank you for building this!

josephsunny 9y ago
Very thoughtful feedback, Subhobroto. Good to have you on board. Save button UX is a known issue, although we never thought of it as a 'bug' to fix it. We'll reconsider this. Thanks for noticing. Thanks, and happy to be your first supporter on BMC!

fady 9y ago

just signed up! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xrp https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xrp

josephsunny 9y ago
That's a beautiful Buy Me A Coffee page, @fady. Glad to be your first supporter!

scrollaway 9y ago

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! You're crazy :) But ok! https://buymeacoff.ee/jleclanche 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" textbox when I click "Delete my account". Seriously, do this early. :) 4. I see you are using Stripe Checkout.js for payment methods. Switch to Stripe Elements (https://stripe.com/elements https://stripe.com/elements) and the Source API to get the option to support a range of other payment methods as well as 3d secure and such. 5. What's your stack?

swastika 9y ago
> Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country. This is a good catch! The problem though is BMC will now have to keep the country data updated from Stripe, unless Stripe provides it over their API
- scrollaway 9y ago
  I meant during onboarding, Stripe was showing up as both disabled and recommended.
josephsunny 9y ago
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!
- scrollaway 9y ago
  > 5. LAMP MySQL+PHP? Any framework in particular? Just curious > BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public Sure, done.

swastika 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/swastika https://www.buymeacoffee.com/swastika :) > - Exclusive content: Publish supporter-only content on your BuyMeACoffee page to encourage more donations. Would BMC host this content? What would happen if the content went viral?

josephsunny 9y ago
Exclusive content = texts, links, and video embed for now. We're not hosting anything ATM. File upload is on our roadmap, but creators seem to be pretty satisfied with the current set up :) BTW welcome to BuyMeACoffee! Happy to buy your first coffee.

neural_thing 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sergey 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.

josephsunny 9y ago
Noted. Welcome to BMC, Sergey! Happy to buy your first coffee.

scoufman 9y ago

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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/qigPCbYZ2

josephsunny 9y ago
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!
- rtrigoso 9y ago
  better upgrade again, the site is looking broken atm

hacym 9y ago

Nice and easy to setup. https://buymeacoff.ee/mycah https://buymeacoff.ee/mycah Might be cool to have the ability to change it from coffee to something else.

josephsunny 9y ago
True, you can do it with the buttons though (custom text, font, color etc.). It's pretty cool. Thanks for trying us out, Mycah. Enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

domsl 9y ago

Wow. Thank you. I think it is very beautifully made. https://buymeacoff.ee/ddominik https://buymeacoff.ee/ddominik I recently started blogging, so I am very happy to come across this :)

josephsunny 9y ago
Perfect timing, I guess :) Good to have you on board, Dominik! P.S Your platform fee is waived. Happy to be your first supporter :)
- domsl 9y ago
  Thank you! :)
- redindian75 9y ago
  Stripe/Credit Card (2.9% +.30) fees still apply - right?

SeriousLemon 9y ago

Looks great :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeriousLemon https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeriousLemon

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks, @SeriousLemon! Happy to be your first supporter :)

pc_junk 9y ago

Awesome, been looking for something like this. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stuff https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stuff Any chance of a webhook for donation notifications?

josephsunny 9y ago
Yes! Coming soon. Enjoy the 'Someone bought you 5 coffees' emails until then :) Glad to be your first supporter BTW!

fishmorefish 9y ago

I'd love to see this take off :) Made my page https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz

josephsunny 9y ago
<3 We'd love that too :D Welcome to BuyMeACoffee!

nikivi 9y ago

This is awesome. I mostly do Open Source and I think BuyMeACoffee compliments Patreon really well. Thank you for the offer. There is only one issue where you can't attach a link to a more than a one word. I wish you could do that. My page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nikitavoloboev https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nikitavoloboev

josephsunny 9y ago
Good to hear that, @nikivi! Glad to be the first one to buy you coffee. > There is only one issue where you can't attach a link to a more than a one word. I wish you could do that. This is a known issue, and we'll fix with an update first thing tomorrow. Thanks for noticing!

Estyn 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/estyn https://www.buymeacoffee.com/estyn Surprisingly easy to sign up and use

josephsunny 9y ago
:) That's what we like to hear! Welcome to BMC, @estyn.

aapusaam 9y ago

I just created my page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da Thanks for a simple and easy onboarding process!

josephsunny 9y ago
Glad you like it, @aapusaam! Enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

billyshih 9y ago

This is awesome, thank you! Here's my page: https://buymeacoff.ee/billy https://buymeacoff.ee/billy

josephsunny 9y ago
Welcome to BMC, Billy. Nice username BTW :) Glad to be the first one to buy you coffee!

tunesmith 9y ago

Thanks for waiving the platform fee! https://buymeacoff.ee/tunesmith https://buymeacoff.ee/tunesmith

josephsunny 9y ago
You're welcome, and thanks for trying us out, @tunesmith. Please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee!
- tunesmith 9y ago
  Whoops! Thanks - I finished that part of it now. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tunesmith https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tunesmith

alphaoide 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/framingthesky https://www.buymeacoffee.com/framingthesky I uploaded an avatar with portrait dimension but it looks like your system turned it to a square improperly (the avatar looks squished)

josephsunny 9y ago
Noted. Sorry for the trouble, Joshua. Do accept the apology coffee :) Cheers!

philplckthun 9y ago

So A) I just love coffee, and B) the design and illustrations of the site are just so thoughtful, I just had to sign up <3 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ I have never considered to accept donations for my open source work, but letting people "buy me a coffee" is quite literally what I've been telling people if they're ever thankful, and likewise what I'd offer them. Thank you for creating this!

josephsunny 9y ago
You're welcome and thanks for putting it so nicely! I agree that it's the most friendly way to give your audience an option to thank you.

pwinnski 9y ago

I was on the fence, but a lifetime waived fee is irresistible! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plwinn https://www.buymeacoffee.com/plwinn

josephsunny 9y ago
It sure is :) Welcome to BMC, Winn! Glad to be your first supporter, and waive the platform fee.

nabeards 9y ago

Just tried to sign up, but it appears the Stripe form doesn't work on iOS Safari. Can reproduce by filling out the whole form, not entering a phone number, hit submit. Then, I get a brief error that my phone number needs entered, which then skips directly down to bank account numbers not matching (which they do) and then, suddenly, the account number changes to my autofill password. Very odd behavior!

nabeards 9y ago
Oh, and it looks like your system doesn't accept the cancel back through the API. I just get a page that says "The user denied your request."
- nabeards 9y ago
  Did get it setup from my computer, thanks! http://buymeacoffee.com/nabeards http://buymeacoffee.com/nabeards

notaresearcher 9y ago

josephsunny 9y ago
You're welcome and thank you for trying us out. Nice username BTW :) Glad to buy your first coffee on the platform!

alwillis 9y ago

Love the UI/UX… this how everything should work in 2018. And thanks for your offer for HN users! Quite awesome of you. Here’s my page link: https://buymeacoff.ee/alwillis https://buymeacoff.ee/alwillis

josephsunny 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words, @alwillis! Appreciate it. Please choose a payout method on BuyMeACoffee to make your page public. Waiting to view the page. Cheers!

huuyngo 9y ago

Signing up was seamless. I will look forward to using BMC in the future. Thank you for waiving the platform fee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeBEI93 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeBEI93

josephsunny 9y ago
You're welcome, @huuyngo. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee! I just bought your first coffee and waived the platform fee associated with your account. Thanks for trying us out.

jessicaszeto 9y ago

This looks perfect for some of my upcoming projects! I just have a comment that the price of an individual "coffee" should be more obvious because it might not be clear before you look at the Buy button total (which is a bit low-contrast anyway). At first glance, the 1-3-5 looks like the dollar amount you're donating, not a multiplier of a coffee cup since the coffee doesn't have the actual price anywhere. Especially considering that a coffee price can differ from $3-$5 depending on each person's settings, I would go for clarity and either put the price in front of the coffee cup or use a coffee cup icon that has the price on it. I'm super excited to try this out though! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JessicaSzeto https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JessicaSzeto

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words, Jessica. Very helpful suggestion. I've added this to our Trello and will look into this very soon. Happy to be your first supporter on the platform :)

d99kris 9y ago

Thanks! Here's my link: https://buymeacoff.ee/d99kris https://buymeacoff.ee/d99kris Very smooth signup experience.

josephsunny 9y ago
That's what we want to hear! :) Welcome to BuyMeACoffee. Platform fee associated with your account has been waived, and glad to be the first one to contribute.

jeremydavid 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoff.ee/tarot https://www.buymeacoff.ee/tarot :)

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks for trying us out :) Glad to be your first supporter!

mcdoh 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/mcdoh https://buymeacoff.ee/mcdoh

josephsunny 9y ago
Hi there! It looks like you have not selected a payout method. Please choose between Paypal or Stripe to make your page public. Cheers!
- mcdoh 9y ago
  I just set up with Stripe. I'm looking forward to getting Buy Me a Coffee set up tomorrow night. Thank you so much!!

johnpowell 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stfu https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stfu Added the button to a little forum I run. It was easy enough to set up. I previously had no advertising or anything on the site.

josephsunny 9y ago
Awesome! Thanks for trying us out, @johnpowell. Fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

thomaspark 9y ago

Great execution, plan to give is a whirl: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark

josephsunny 9y ago
Awesome! Thanks for trying us out, Thomas. Glad to be your first supporter on the platform.

shurcooL 9y ago

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! We'd also love to be your first supporter. I'll take you up on that offer. https://buymeacoff.ee/shurcooL https://buymeacoff.ee/shurcooL Thanks! Some feedback from my signup experience: 1. I saw someone in the comments mentioning that it'd be nice to be able to connect payout methods later, and a reply said there was a "skip for now" button. So, I was looking to use it (not expecting to get a lot of coffee at this time...). However, the page asking to pick Stripe or PayPal came up, and there was no "skip for now" button anywhere in sight. I was taken aback a bit. I was thinking maybe I just need to click on the dashboard link on top, but was worried that might rip me out of the onboarding flow... In the end, I decided to just add a Stripe account now. So I picked Stripe (over PayPal), and THEN it gave me the offer to skip adding it. What!? Why show the "skip adding payment info for now" option only after making the user go through the decision of picking a payment provider? I'd rather have seen the button on the first page. Of course, then it said my page wouldn't be visible publicly until I do add one, so there wasn't a point in skipping anyway. That whole "make a decision about payment/actually you can do that later/actually you have to do it now" experience felt unfriendly and probably could be improved. 2. On the Dashboard, there's "What do you do?" input with an input field. It shows some pre-populated (I presume) options when you begin typing. I wanted to pick something that best describes me (open source software engineer working mostly with Go), so I wanted to see all the options available. But I could only see them if I type at least one letter. So I tried typing A, B, C, etc. In the end, I was able to get a gist of what categories were there and which ones weren't (there's "Developer", but nothing else quite fitting), but I had to go in a roundabout way of accomplishing it. Perhaps this could be made friendlier too. (Just a normal dropdown that shows all options when clicked, maybe?) P.S. That's a nice growth strategy.

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive feedback, Dmitri. 1. You're right, and this is a known confusion. We're trying to come up with a more straightforward solution. Thanks for noticing! 2. You do not necessarily have to pick one from the given categories. Please feel free to use the title that best describes what you do. P.S Platform fee associated with your account has been waived, and the first coffee is served :)

pping 9y ago

Thanks for the waiver! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ping https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ping

archagon 9y ago

Made a link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/UeaBnjrb7 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/UeaBnjrb7 FYI, the text fields when inserting a link are switched around.

josephsunny 9y ago
Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, @archagon. Just bought you your first coffee :) Link issue is noted. We'll take a look.
- archagon 9y ago
  Thank you! :)

xzion 9y ago

Easy onboarding, thanks! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks, Coen! Fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

ayngg 9y ago

I actually came across your service a little while ago and figured that it had already been around for a long time, surprised that it is actually quite new. Best of luck and thanks! https://buymeacoff.ee/ayng https://buymeacoff.ee/ayng

josephsunny 9y ago
'Buy me a coffee' is such a popular term online that we have this unfair advantage of sounding like an old service :) Thanks for trying us out, @ayngg. Your platform fee is waived, and glad to be your first supporter!

I-M-S 9y ago

Hi, just created an account: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ims 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!

josephsunny 9y ago
Hi there! 1. Check out the 'Locked content' feature in the updates section - https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee/status/960932110319091717/ 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.
- I-M-S 9y ago
  Thank you for your reply! I will do that as soon as I am ready to launch my podcast in a couple of months :)

qacek 9y ago

Very cool! Thank you :) https://buymeacoff.ee/jwkvam https://buymeacoff.ee/jwkvam

josephsunny 9y ago
Thanks for trying us out, Jacques! Your platform fee is waived, and enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

schmich 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/schmich https://buymeacoff.ee/schmich Great way to promote your site. Onboarding was as easy as it gets. I'm a software developer with a job, but I also have open source projects that stretch out beyond the horizon. Some are much more successful than others, and I've been considering accepting donations for a while. I don't have the hardcore following that would support something like Patreon, but I have enough of an audience where something like BMAC might work. Cryptocurrency support would be interesting as well. I've considered setting up wallets for just this purpose. Quick feedback: 1) The creator pages feel undifferentiated (colors/icons/themes/imagery). Upsides: consistency for your platform, simplicity for creators, fewer knobs, less myspace-esque junkery. Downsides: impersonal, bland, might feel cheap/unimportant. I'm not sure where I fall on the spectrum, just a fleeting thought. 2) Under "What do you do?" on my profile, I wanted to put "Open Source Software Developer" to stress the open and contributing nature of my work, but the input's maxlength was 20. I edited it to 35 and it worked, so clearly the backend supports longer descriptions ;) Maybe raise the maxlength on the field?

josephsunny 9y ago
Glad you like the product, Chris; and thanks a ton for all these suggestions. Let me tackle them one by one. 1. Customizable creator page was a topic of debate for us from day one :) You have beautifully shared the ups and downs of it. I've noted it and will bring this up in our next brainstorming session. 2. Haha, nice find. Just shared this on our slack. Let us see what we can do without affecting the design :) Thanks for noticing!

lf6648 9y ago

Just what I have been looking for, at the exact moment I was looking for it :-) Unfortunately I already bought my first coffee on credit this morning, but I'm sure more will come in a short while! (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/laurent https://www.buymeacoffee.com/laurent) The signup and profile customisation processes are highly user-friendly, and just worked the way they should! (so no bad user experience feedback for you from my side, unfortunately :) ) Thanks a lot for your great work!

josephsunny 9y ago
Haha, that's not a sad news at all. Thank you for such a positive feedback, Laurent.

yagyu 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Jonase https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Jonase Cool, thanks a lot! Sign up was smooth on Android chrome, but I managed to misunderstand the save button once in the edit page. I pressed save and went to hamburger menu-your page, and all changes were lost. Turns out url I chose first was taken, but the error message upon saving was off screen for me so I did not see it.. No biggie, very friendly interface. I like that I got my initials on the logo cup :) buy whoever made that a coffee..

josephsunny 9y ago
Awesome, happy to see you notice the little things we did (you should check out the 404-page too :D). I've noted the UI issue. We'll look into it right away. Thanks, and welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Jonas!

pikdum 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/pikdum https://buymeacoff.ee/pikdum I like it. I've been thinking about setting up a donation system to help cover hosting costs for a few sites, but never got around to it. This was painless to get set up and hooked up with an existing PayPal account, and easy enough to use that my users might actually chip in (doubt they would bother with platforms like Patreon or making new accounts). Definitely enjoying how simple and clean the UX is.

josephsunny 9y ago
Spot on. That is exactly the problem that we're trying to solve. Making donations as friendly, frictionless and straightforward as possible. Glad you like it, @pikdum.

zepn 9y ago

That's fantastic, thank you! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/np https://www.buymeacoffee.com/np Is it possible to further reduce the minimum supporter amount (to, say, $1?) - or customize it?

josephsunny 9y ago
It is not :( Do you think such a feature would be useful? We went with $3, $4, and $5 after careful research and a poll among creators. Welcome to BMC! Platform fee is waived, and the first coffee served :)

odqs 9y ago

A fantastic product, thanks! https://buymeacoff.ee/14WkfhG https://buymeacoff.ee/14WkfhG

josephsunny 9y ago
Woohoo! Thanks. Happy to welcome you with a coffee.

robertd789 9y ago

Really nice! https://buymeacoff.ee/robertd https://buymeacoff.ee/robertd

arathunku 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arathunku https://www.buymeacoffee.com/arathunku Beautiful site, good luck!

josephsunny 9y ago
Thank you, welcome to BMC! Glad to be your first supporter on the platform :)

jhauberg 9y ago

I've been on the lookout for something like this recently, and this thing appeared at a pretty opportune time. I'm spending a lot of my spare time making open-source stuff over at GitHub, and even though it's all too niche to ever see widespread use, i'd like to at least have an option to receive support through donations from anyone who likes my work. I'm not sure that i'd be using the social features that you offer; i.e. posting updates and such- i'm mostly interested in the ability to put a link/button on my READMEs, but that seems to be very easy. I've signed up as https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jhauberg https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jhauberg :)

QasimK 9y ago

I like how straightforward everything is. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/QasimK https://www.buymeacoffee.com/QasimK I agree with previous comments that the trustworthiness (likeliness to donate) could be increased by giving actual information about the people and company behind the website, especially as money is involved. Also, it's impossible to get to the footer on some pages because of the endless infinite scroll. All I wanted to do was click FAQ but I can't :( Finally, do you not verify email addresses?

keraf 9y ago

Hope I'm not late to the party :) My page is https://buymeacoff.ee/keraf https://buymeacoff.ee/keraf Nice site, good luck with it!

bebna 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/bebna 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.

igorkraw 9y ago

That is really nice of you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k changed the link to: https://buymeacoff.ee/igork https://buymeacoff.ee/igork

newscracker 9y ago

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.

Fileformat 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fileformat https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fileformat

karimf 9y ago

Neat project! Here's my link https://buymeacoff.ee/fikrikarim https://buymeacoff.ee/fikrikarim I wonder if this kind of "reply here" way is encouraged on HN. Yes this will get a lot of traction, but I rarely see this on HN. Hope this post doesn't trigger the "flame war detection" [1] [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/master/README.md#flame-war-detector https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

itsnibs 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/nibs https://buymeacoff.ee/nibs Lovely (and lively!) project, glad it's been posted here. Quite spare design. No flaws signing up. It'll be a treat to experiment.

bluehatbrit 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/elliot https://buymeacoff.ee/elliot This site looks awesome, really cool to see what you're doing and I really hope it takes off! A little bit of feedback: 1. You really show offer a button in markdown format. The HTML one doesn't work on a github markdown document without losing all the styles because of github markdown security. 2. Because I had to use the image for markdown, I noticed that the image is pretty fuzzy on a retina screen. The whole thing is quite low res, might be worth doing a 3x one if you can? 3. It'd be great for a user to see the price they're donating and then just change it with a slide or input field. At the moment jus x1, x2, x3 is not only limiting but also quite hidden. A coffee in the UK is quite different to a coffee in Norway for instance. It also means someone can give much more if they'd like which is great for creators! Perhaps allow the creator to set a suggested and minimum donation, you can then cap at say $5 minimum, but have a suggested of $10 and the user can choose a value from there. If you wanted to keep the coffee analogy, you could have a nice little SVG which changes to a more extravagant coffee the bigger it gets, maybe eventually turning into a coffee machine at X amount. 4. I feel like I probably shouldn't be forced to setup a payment provider to get going, it makes it a lot more work to get up and running as a user of the platform. 5. It'd be fantastic if I could see where people came from when they donated. Perhaps they came from npm, github, or my blog, each is very different and lets me experiment with what's working and what's pointless. Great platform, just what I've been looking for recently!

jhauberg 9y ago
I would love to see improvements to "the button" as well.
josephsunny 9y ago
Hey Elliot, Glad you like the platform, and thanks for sharing those thoughtful suggestions. We've already started working on it. 1. Noted. We're doing a complete revamp of buttons and widgets with step-by-step instructions on how to use on popular platforms like Medium, GitHub etc. 2. Very true. Work in progress. 3. We want to keep the coffee analogy, but I get your point and we'll work out a solution. Thanks for the suggestion. 4. Answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491026. Hope it's relevant. 5. That's a good idea. We'll see if we can somehow share referrer stats without cluttering the dashboard. Thanks again for all these suggestion. Cheers!

philbarr 9y ago

This looks great! Here's my link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/philbarr https://www.buymeacoffee.com/philbarr I've suffered with eczema all my life and am working on a webapp to help people monitor their eczema, since constant monitoring of what you eat / drink / do / everything is one of the best ways to control eczema. Couldn't really think of a way to fund it before and will try this. Thanks!

NickLamp 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DiFUVw9HK https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DiFUVw9HK

akashakya 9y ago

looks great! my link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/akashh https://www.buymeacoffee.com/akashh

josephsunny 9y ago
Thank you, @akashakya! Please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :)

haveanupvote 9y ago

I haven't been soliciting donations before, but seems like a possibility I should follow up, so: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neaj https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neaj :-)

Eli_ 9y ago

Sign me up! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Eli https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Eli

Eisfreak7 9y ago

> We are waiving the 5% platform fee for HN users for LIFETIME! Thanks! I like the simple design, I'll check it out. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hb4xENh6c https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hb4xENh6c

levidxyz 9y ago

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/levidxyz https://www.buymeacoffee.com/levidxyz Thanks!! Excited to try this out.

SebKba 9y ago

https://buymeacoff.ee/sebster https://buymeacoff.ee/sebster The signup process is great. On the donations page I think the $ amount should be displayed in the same box as the number of coffees or allow people to enter a usd amount as well or number of coffees. Now it's only visible on the button which I didn't see immediately. Cheers!

tygertec 9y ago

Wow this is great! First I'd heard of your platform. Onboarding was quick and painless. Late to the party, but here I am: https://buymeacoff.ee/tygerbytes https://buymeacoff.ee/tygerbytes

josephsunny 9y ago
Not late at all. Thanks for trying us out, Ty! Your platform fee is waived, and I'm glad to buy your first coffee <3
- tygertec 9y ago
  Thanks, Joseph! You're too kind. :)

voussoir 9y ago

Hey thanks for doing this HN special https://www.buymeacoffee.com/voussoir https://www.buymeacoffee.com/voussoir I like the art style and the overall appearance a lot. My only suggestion is to make the actual dollar amount on the donation page more apparent. Personally I would expect the price to be in the same box as the multiplier but instead it's all the way down in the button, in a faint color. Makes me hesitant like I don't know what I'm getting into. Good luck with the site!