Show HN: NickelJoke – Pay a Nickel to Get a Joke Using X402 Micropayments

Posted by bilater on Saturday October 25, 2025 @07:55PM
from the show-hn dept.

Since everyone’s talking about x402 now, I figured I’d open-source my NickelJoke project.

It’s built on top of the Coinbase + Next.js x402 Starter and lets you pay a nickel for a joke.

It’s a simple app, but it’s a fun way to explore the protocol and experiment with building and monetizing microservices on top of it.

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Re:Show HN: NickelJoke – Pay a Nickel to Get a Joke Using X4... by 8organicbits on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:26PM (#45708034)

What kind of costs does a tool like this have? I think I'm seeing zero fees from Coinbase?

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Re:Show HN: NickelJoke – Pay a Nickel to Get a Joke Using X4... by bilater on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:34PM (#45708093)

Currently 0 fees since they are promoting it but probably will add something (relatively) minimal later on.

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Re:Show HN: NickelJoke – Pay a Nickel to Get a Joke Using X4... by __erik on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:07AM (#45760873)

x402 as a standard will never have a fee.

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Re:Show HN: NickelJoke – Pay a Nickel to Get a Joke Using X4... by bilater on Saturday November 01, 2025 @12:53PM (#45783194)

I meant for the facilitator

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