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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 littl
by 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 agoI would love to see improvements to "the button" as well.
- josephsunny 9y agoHey 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!
- bluehatbrit 9y agoThanks for the response, it's great to see what you're doing and working on, do you have a blog talking some of this stuff at all?