Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything

Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by geysersam on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:02PM (#34069661)

1. You can still have reviews, decription of content, etc etc. But it doesn't have to ce coupled to payment processing and distribution of the content.

This significantly lowers the bar for what is required to have a "webshop" like page. For example: a Reddit post can have a product description, with payment links directly in the description, and reviews in the comments. How convenient is that?

> What the heck am I paying for?

I assume you accessed their example link. In practice you would have clicked the link from a page describing what you are paying for.

I'm not affiliated with the product. Just found this a really cool and innovative idea.

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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by zyx321 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:23PM (#34071953)

If your example doesn't show how the tool is supposed to be used in practice, it's kind of a garbage example.

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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by croes on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:28PM (#34072040)

Clicking a link and getting to a page without mentioning what I'm paying for is highly suspicious.

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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by geysersam on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:51PM (#34074647)

But before you click the link, the page would explain what you're paying for, right?

Sure, at the exact moment you're entering your card details, it doesn't say what the product is.

However, it seems this could be changed quite trivially. Just add an optional `description` field to the form used to generate the url, and let the description be displayed on the payment page.

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