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Asad Rizvi
@aleyrizvi
Any above restricts your sponsors to support in restrictive manners.
For example, if you use stripe checkout page, you are unable to accept paypal.
If you are live streaming and would like to show notification in OBS (streaming app), its not possible easily.
Accepting multiple payment methods specially mobile wallet payments in Europe and Africa is a huge market compared to USA where plastic money is common.
LemonSqueezy accepts all popular payment instruments including PayPal. Non-issue to just use LS if you really want PayPal support, and they also let you offer "pay what you want" products.
Are you targeting live streamers? If so, base your product around that specifically. But I also don't think that's much of a problem worth solving - showing a notification with arbitrary text in streaming tools is super easy, I know because I stream on Twitch (okay, I don't use OBS, but Twitch's own streaming app lets you do that in like 2 clicks). Or just include the payment link in the chat.
Still not seeing any value in this solution compared to existing tools
But you cannot use that tool outside twitch, right?
If you have to sell some merchandise as a singer or provide consultancy, etc.
Mostly a content creator tool I have in mind.
I am not planning to become a payment processor.
I am merely becoming a platform to integrate your own payment processor.
Imagine shopify with your own bank/stripe/paypal/etc. with only one feature: accept gratitude online.
Ok got it. You will still have hosting costs and whatever else. You need some way of reliably paying those bills, so a donation system that is by definition unreliable seems odd.
For such a simple use case of accepting gratitude I'd just use other products in the space depending on what the gratitude is for (BMAC, LemonSqueezy's hosted checkout, Stripe's hosted checkout, GitHub Sponsors, etc.). I don't think this is a particularly interesting product unless you have some key differentiating feature.
Any above restricts your sponsors to support in restrictive manners.
For example, if you use stripe checkout page, you are unable to accept paypal.
If you are live streaming and would like to show notification in OBS (streaming app), its not possible easily.
Accepting multiple payment methods specially mobile wallet payments in Europe and Africa is a huge market compared to USA where plastic money is common.
LemonSqueezy accepts all popular payment instruments including PayPal. Non-issue to just use LS if you really want PayPal support, and they also let you offer "pay what you want" products.
Are you targeting live streamers? If so, base your product around that specifically. But I also don't think that's much of a problem worth solving - showing a notification with arbitrary text in streaming tools is super easy, I know because I stream on Twitch (okay, I don't use OBS, but Twitch's own streaming app lets you do that in like 2 clicks). Or just include the payment link in the chat.
Still not seeing any value in this solution compared to existing tools
But you cannot use that tool outside twitch, right?
If you have to sell some merchandise as a singer or provide consultancy, etc.
Mostly a content creator tool I have in mind.
I was thinking more about waffles :)
But cool feature to change the name by yourself. Even custom domain.
True,
I am thinking about a platform that allows you to choose what you wish to do. It will be upto you to enable certain features to it.
At core, it will be BMAC alternative with different payment methods from all around the world. Perhaps mobile wallets in some countries?
Good question.
I plan to initiate a page for myself where I will be accepting money to run the platform from the community.
Since there wont be any bureaucracy, supporters can drive the direction of the platform.
Ofcourse its not possible to run for free for a long term unless I get support hence this question to validate.
Regarding competition, I also intend to compete with linktr.ee as well :)
Since its a bio page, you will be able to have leifjerami.something/l
for example for your own links page.
Thank you for your feedback. Few of the things that I would like to solve:
Ability to add multiple payment methods. You don't necessary have stripe or found a cheaper card processor in your country that processes payment faster and cheaper. You perhaps like to accept paypal, credit cards, ethereum all at once?
The development is too slow at buymeacoffee. If you look at the feedback board they have, they move at the speed of snail and doesn't necessary go what the user demands.
Added features. Have the ability to integrate other systems with ease. Calendly for example. You should be able to allow your visitor to reserve a time slot and pay for it (optionally) to avoid no-show for consultancy.
Ability to sell your merchandise with global tax regulation. a content creator such as a singer might be interested to sell his merchandise to raise funding such as t-shirts, etc.
Custom domain names. Currently, nobody else is offering that but its a big thing if you does not want to get hit by SEO actually. I would like to point my domain such as asadrizvi.mycompany.com but its not possible with BMAC or Ko-fi.
BMAC charges you 5% commission which is separate than what stripe charge you. I would like to offer freedom to use platform for free and if you like it, donate what you think the platform deserve.
Let me know about the feedback. It made me excited to explain what I had in my diary, lol
We use alias of one domain but change reply-to address belonging to our customers.
But you cannot use that tool outside twitch, right?
If you have to sell some merchandise as a singer or provide consultancy, etc.
Mostly a content creator tool I have in mind.