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Stripe’s 2022 Annual Letter(stripe.com)
4 points by jijosunny 3y ago|0 comments
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by jijosunny 4y ago
very thoughtful. just bought you some coffee!
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by jijosunny 5y ago
Gotta love the progress y’all made in the last few months! Congrats on the launch!
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Fan Funding platform Buy Me A Coffee has waived all their fees for April(twitter.com)
8 points by jijosunny 7y ago|0 comments
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by jijosunny 7y ago
We charge a 5% platform fee. So if you earn $50 on Buy Me A Coffee, we'll take $2.5 as our cut.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Thanks!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Thank you! Our insight after getting into the audio space was that podcasters are relatively happy with monetization. This is obviously not a popular opinion, but that's what we saw first hand. Ad rates are pretty good, and unlike othe
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by jijosunny 7y ago
We are the same company/team, and our goal is to help creators get paid for their work. With Brew, we focused on audio creators. Everything we built so far revolved around this vision :) I don't want to speak for YC, but the partn
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Fixed!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
It is still valid, but we'd recommend connecting PayPal or Stripe for all these new features like instant payouts :)
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Hey, I just came across your tweet [1] and wanted to say that we think about this a lot. The most effective way to attract more contributions is to offer something extra or exclusive. Obviously, this is not possible for everyone, so we desi
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by jijosunny 7y ago
We charge a 5% platform fee. This is on top of any transaction fees charged by PayPal or Stripe.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
fixed -- thank you for taking the time to report this!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
You're right. Thank you.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
We do have a bug bounty and encourage bug reports from our users ( https://twitter.com/PJijin/status/1186904518341955584 ). The policy mentioned above is to avoid any damages to the creator(s) on the platform. Thank
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Hey, this is Jijo from Buy Me A Coffee. Thanks for the feedback! We believe 5% is a reasonable fee to build and maintain a platform that allows creators to connect with their audience and generate more income. One way to look at it is the %
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Noted. We're working on a Community Guidelines page, and I'll make it a point to address these concerns. Thanks for taking the time to share this!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
To be clear, there are no circumstances under which we'll unpublish an LGBTQ creator. Here's a fantastic writer that I've been following for years who recently joined Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com&
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Yes!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
>Also, are there any geographic restrictions? Can creators outside the US use your service (in countries which are NOT on the US OFAC sanction list)? Yes, Buy Me A Coffee is available to creators in almost all countries. Here is a breakd
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Connecting with the audience directly is always a great outcome for creators!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
We charge a 5% platform fee. This is on top of the payment processing fee charged by Stripe and PayPal.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Twitch partially inspired many of our features. In fact, a big chunk of our active users are YouTubers who don't have a viable alternative to monetize directly ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=buymeacoffee.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
noted, thank you!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
We hate to do this, but payment providers have clear terms around hosting adult content. I sincerely hope this will change one day.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
love it! and thank you for being an early user!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
that's awesome - thank you so much!
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by jijosunny 7y ago
Yes, you need a PayPal or Stripe account to start receiving payments. The main benefits are the community and publishing features. You can share rewards or exclusive content with your supporters. Also, a significant portion of the activity
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by jijosunny 7y ago
haha, thank you so much! I'm at jijo@buymeacoffee if you have any questions while setting up your page.
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by jijosunny 7y ago
whoa, it's great to hear from you. I'm pretty sure I've used your plugin on one of my blogs. thank you!

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