Being a free payment processor doesn't make any sense. You will have to pay credit card processing fees, hosting costs, and other things - how do you plan to cover all of that without charging the customer anything? I know you mentioned you want to make it a donation based platform, but consider a likely scenario where nobody decides to donate anything.
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
Being a free payment processor doesn't make any sense. You will have to pay credit card processing fees, hosting costs, and other things - how do you plan to cover all of that without charging the customer anything? I know you mentioned you want to make it a donation based platform, but consider a likely scenario where nobody decides to donate anything.
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.