Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you
Hi HN! We’re Joseph, Aleesha, and Jijo, the founders of Buy Me A Coffee ( https://www.buymeacoffee.com ). We make it super easy to accept contributions and recurring memberships from your audience. A bit of backstory - Joseph and I grew up in India. When I was 12, I started making a little bit of money from my blog, and it had a huge impact on my life. I got to buy books and gadgets, pay for web hosting, none of which I could’ve afforded otherwise. We built our first product in 2010. It was an ad network for bloggers called AdIndigo. There were a bunch of Adsense alternatives doing well at that time, and it grew to serve 6 million impressions at its peak. We later had to shut it down because of the expenses. Buy Me A Coffee is our third (and only successful) attempt at building for the creators. When we started working on Buy Me A Coffee as a side project, it was a quick way to
Why it failed
Hi HN! We’re Joseph, Aleesha, and Jijo, the founders of Buy Me A Coffee ( https://www.buymeacoffee.com ). We make it super easy to accept contributions and recurring memberships from your audience. A bit of backstory - Joseph and I grew up in India. When I was 12, I sta
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jijosunny
- Ended
- 2019
- Source
- hackernews