Hey Product Hunt! 👋
We're super excited to introduce Coffeelinks –– it's like Bit.ly for payments 🎉Imagine if you want to share a Dropbox file, eBook or an unlisted video with your audience. You can enter that link, set a price and generate a Coffeelink. As simple as that 🙌
Some use cases:
🗂️ Sell a digital product by sharing the zip file [Dropbox + Coffee Links]
📖 Share the first draft of your next book with your readers [Google Docs + Coffee Links]
🎥 Share your upcoming Youtube video with your most loyal fans [YouTube unlisted + Coffee Links]
🏷️ Take order for advertising on your blog or Instagram page [Typeform link + Coffee Links]
We whipped up some Coffeelinks for you: (use the code 'ILIKETEA' to get free access)
–– https://bmc.xyz/l/NewEbook
–– https://bmc.xyz/l/CatVideo
–– https://bmc.xyz/l/SponsorMyInsta
4 months ago, we launched Buy Me A Coffee on Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/post...). We were unsure about the launch back then, we were struggling with payment frauds (among many other things); mostly because we decided to handle payment-hassles ourselves and make it super-simple for our users. We had to deploy a lot of our resources to security and fraud prevention (Stripe helped us with early access to their ML-powered Radar 2.0 🙏).
Then PH happened 🚀 Thousands of creators started using Buy Me A Coffee. Activist William LeGate raised $3k with just a tweet (http://bit.ly/2KLZfGx ), game developers started making upwards of $5k/month and the best part? Waking up every day to tons of tweets, blog posts and videos about how creators are using BMC to receive support to buy equipment, pay bills and most importantly, create more great content <3
Much love everyone ❤️We wouldn't be here without you guys.
— Joseph
Cofounder, Buy Me A Coffee
@joseph_sunny Hey PH, special mention to all the creators who signed up for early access via ProductHunt Upcoming and showered us with feedbacks — helped us build the product that we’re launching today; super thankful for it! 🙏😽
This looks great. I'm planning on using BMC for a future project and this looks like another solid offering. Thank you for building these tools for creators 🙏
@magnet1cfields 💞Glad you like it, Andy!
We're trying our best to build more tools & solve more important problems for creators. Here's a quick glimpse of the newsletter we sent out earlier today:
Okay now this is an awesome idea! I love BMC and have been using it along with my YouTube videos for a while now. I will definitely be looking at taking advantage of this new service!
@unclejessy4real 🤘Thank you for supporting us from day one, UncleJessy! 💖
We love your videos, especially this one 😺
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Now I can`t even imagine how we used to do without a coffee maker. Not much of the wash - just shake out used coffee ground out of filter, rinse under the tap, stop up with a new coffee. Espresso https://hotcoffeeworld.com/ turns frothy like one you may buy in a coffee-house. And there is a nozzle for cappuccino. And what about drip coffee maker - agree, they are not supposed to make good coffee. Of course, professionals do it tastier, but I am ok with it.
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I just joined buy me a coffee http://www.buymeacoffee.com/cart... and love how simple it is! Am setting it as my main link on my social media now.
Pros:
Simple and quick to set up!
Cons:
None whatsoever!
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I love you. Also, needs more detailed previews to get the feeling of the hidden content. Of course, the publisher can do it in description, but last time I checked you were all about making it easier. Did I mention I love you?
@igoruphere Haha, we heard you so loud and clear that we bought you a coffee ☕💖
Thanks for the comment and thoughtful suggestion, Igor! We'll surely think of ways to add more features without cluttering the sales page.
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@jijosunny Whoa, thanks! Smells like a great morning!
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This is rad 💯
I am going to try this out for my future projects.
@ali_siam Hey Ali, of course, we would love to share! There was a 2-month private beta phase before we launched publicly on the 1st week of Jan (https://www.producthunt.com/post...). Things we tried initially:
– Talked to early creators (a lot). We had to do this because BMC is inherently viral (creators sharing their BMC page = more creators signing up) + we got to learn plenty about how to serve them best.
– We were super-active on Twitter from day 1. We engaged with all mentions and bought a bunch of coffees to many great creators 😻
– Automated organic growth by adding cues to share more, from the welcome email to dashboard pages. Not sure how well it worked.
– Buttons surely helped with search rankings –– https://twitter.com/BuyMeACoffee....
Hope this helps, Ali. I'll do a blog post covering all these in depth and more. 💯
@jijosunny Thats awesome! I know from experience building a platform with a community takes a lot of time, I'm glad you are seeing growth. I'm hoping this can replace my needs for Fiverr in a unique way. :D Looking forward to your blog post! Link me your Medium profile if you will post on there and I'll follow you. Cheers & best of luck!
This is amazing! We already use BMAC for one of our projects and currently in the midst of adding BMAC integrations to 2 on-going projects. Hands down the best and the most fun way of getting support from our community 🙌 I tried patreon but it wasn't for us. As developers, the word 'coffee' attracted us by 10x magnetic force. Looking forward to use Coffeelinks pretty soon. Thank you Jijo and the team! We are in your coffee debt ;)
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