You're crazy :) But ok! https://buymeacoff.ee/jleclanche

Feedback:

1. My avatar wasn't picked up from Facebook, nor Gravatar. My email wasn't either. I think it's OK for you to request these from Facebook.

2. Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country.

3. Add an optional "Tell us why" 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) 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?

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

I'd wish for a higher maximum word count in the Thank You message section.

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!

MySQL+PHP? Any framework in particular? Just curious

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

Sure, done.

This 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?

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

Happy to be your first supporter on the platform :)

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.

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?

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!

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!

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. 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!

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!

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 :)

Here's my link 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/m...

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!

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!

Thanks a lot for your great work!

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..

I've noted the UI issue. We'll look into it right away.

Thanks, and welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Jonas!

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?

I'll take you up on that offer. 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?)

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 :)

About point 2, let me clarify. I know that I could either pick a pre-existing category or type my own freeform text. I was trying to make the decision of which to go with based on what pre-existing categories existed. To make that decision, I wanted to be able to see the full list of categories. I was able to see that full list and make my decision, but in an awkward way. Hopefully that makes sense.

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!

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!

Awesome setup process - wasn't expecting it to be that simple!

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!

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!

- '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!

When I try, I get this broken link: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/'https://www.buymeacoffee.com/t...

Edit: actually it looks like the link on your homepage to terms is broken.

Can you try again please?

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!

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.

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

> 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!

PS looking forward to cryptocurrency support!

Thanks for trying us out, and happy to buy your first coffee :)

Thanks for trying us out, @ayngg. Your platform fee is waived, and glad to be your first supporter!

Oh and, https://buymeacoff.ee/nettem :)

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.

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.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/merrywhether

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

Thanks! I like the simple design, I'll check it out.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Hb4xENh6c

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

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

:)

> - 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?

BTW welcome to BuyMeACoffee! Happy to buy your first coffee.

I uploaded an avatar with portrait dimension but it looks like your system turned it to a square improperly (the avatar looks squished)

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

Is it possible to further reduce the minimum supporter amount (to, say, $1?) - or customize it?

Welcome to BMC! Platform fee is waived, and the first coffee served :)

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.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/qigPCbYZ2

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

And thanks for your offer for HN users! Quite awesome of you.

Here’s my page link: https://buymeacoff.ee/alwillis

Please choose a payout method on BuyMeACoffee to make your page public. Waiting to view the page. Cheers!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeBEI93

And sure, why not: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jonathon

Looks great! Would love to see a baby dropdown option that let's users set their own price, but the site looks awesome!

Welcome to BMC! :)

As others have noted, I would have liked to see what my page would look like before/when setting it up.

https://buymeacoff.ee/ddominik

I recently started blogging, so I am very happy to come across this :)

P.S Your platform fee is waived. Happy to be your first supporter :)

FYI, the text fields when inserting a link are switched around.

https://buymeacoff.ee/peteycodes

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/stuff

Any chance of a webhook for donation notifications?

Glad to be your first supporter BTW!

Thanks!! Excited to try this out.

Nice site, good luck with it!

https://buymeacoff.ee/mycah

Might be cool to have the ability to change it from coffee to something else.

Thanks for trying us out, Mycah. Enjoy your first coffee on the house :)

appreciate your work, also looking forward to crypto support, cheers!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark

Very smooth signup experience.

Platform fee associated with your account has been waived, and glad to be the first one to contribute.

Please choose a payout method to make your page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da

Thanks for a simple and easy onboarding process!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/relz

Welcome to BuyMeACoffee!

Beautiful site, good luck!

https://buymeacoff.ee/avb

Glad to be your first supporter :)

Surprisingly easy to sign up and use

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeriousLemon

:p