Hacker News: jijosunny

Stripe’s 2022 Annual Letter

jijosunny — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://stripe.com/en-gb/annual-updates/2022

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457943

Points: 4

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New comment by jijosunny in "Memento mori"

jijosunny — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:02:45 +0000

very thoughtful. just bought you some coffee!

New comment by jijosunny in "Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos"

jijosunny — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:40:44 +0000

Gotta love the progress y’all made in the last few months! Congrats on the launch!

Fan Funding platform Buy Me A Coffee has waived all their fees for April

jijosunny — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:49:45 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/buymeacoffee/status/1245365101625925633

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750769

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:51:18 +0000

We charge a 5% platform fee. So if you earn $50 on Buy Me A Coffee, we'll take $2.5 as our cut.

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:49:49 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:43:11 +0000

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 other content types, listeners enjoy host-read ads. Meanwhile, Buy Me A Coffee started getting a decent amount of traction even among podcasters, so we wanted to go all in and build it out :)

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:34:30 +0000

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 partners want you to iterate and succeed. Many of the successful YC companies (Reddit, Brex) got accepted for a completely different idea.

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:16:15 +0000

Fixed!

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:14:57 +0000

It is still valid, but we'd recommend connecting PayPal or Stripe for all these new features like instant payouts :)

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:38:48 +0000

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 designed Buy Me A Coffee in a way that every supporter and their comment gets featured on the top. We then notify the creators and encourage them to reply. This way, the act of supporting itself becomes the reward.

Thanks again for the feedback, and thank you for your blog!

[1] https://twitter.com/mattiasgeniar/status/1202111712264163328

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:17:56 +0000

We charge a 5% platform fee. This is on top of any transaction fees charged by PayPal or Stripe.

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:08:03 +0000

fixed -- thank you for taking the time to report this!

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:05:22 +0000

You're right. Thank you.

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 07:24:53 +0000

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. Thanks for the feedback!

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 07:15:36 +0000

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 % of additional revenue they earn because of Buy Me A Coffee.

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 06:46:37 +0000

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!

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 06:26:24 +0000

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/pSzjB85

Our community manager deals with account reviews, and she is more knowledgeable to answer the initial question. I shouldn't have said 'AFAIK' either way, my apologies.

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:47:12 +0000

Yes!

New comment by jijosunny in "Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you"

jijosunny — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:39:07 +0000

>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 breakdown of all accepted countries: https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/3314992-countries-...

>How do you define "adult" content? Does this include creators working on LGBTQIA activism? Does this include creators who create instructional content while showing non-nipple cleavage? Does this include creators involved in sex-ed/harm reduction campaigns?

None of these are against the terms AFAIK. We unpublish creators who promote explicit pornography or nudity. Broadly speaking, we abide by the content restrictions of the vendors and payment processors we work with. More on that can be found here: https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses