My wife and I built something that we’ve been using every single day...
Introducing , an AI note-taker that’s truly intelligent.
There’s also a bit of backstory which we’re reluctant to share but here you go.
some stats:
- Zero to 40,000 creators in a month
- 1.2M pageviews in the last 30 days
- average page speed down to 80ms ⚡️
- feel-good metrics: 23k alexa rank, 286k backlinks,
#1
in google for "bio link"
- wholly run by a 2-person team
🙏❤️🔥
We're seeing gpt-4o perform worse than gpt-4-turbo across the board, especially when it comes to hallucinations.
Not sure why this is not discussed, but
@OpenAI
clearly shipped an inferior model that's cheaper and faster.
Excited to share that the journey that we started here just over a month ago has now led to 7500 note-takers and over $100,000 in revenue.
Today is launching publicly.
TechCrunch and Product Hunt links below. We appreciate all your support. 🙏❤️🔥
My wife and I built something that we’ve been using every single day...
Introducing , an AI note-taker that’s truly intelligent.
There’s also a bit of backstory which we’re reluctant to share but here you go.
1/ 👋 Excited to share what we’ve been building at + we are going to tweetstorm our progress every week!
Week 1 highlights: getting shortlisted for YC W2019🤞, acquiring a premium domain💰, meeting Substack's
@hamishmckenzie
and Stripe CEO
@patrickc
🤩
✨ Five years ago, we launched
@buymeacoffee
to make virtual gifting fun. Today we're introducing .
⚡️ Set up your wishlist in seconds!
🌍 Supports 100+ countries & all major currencies
💰 0% fee forever for early users
Check us out on Product Hunt. ❤️🔥🙏
Link by Stripe is low-key crushing it.
I knew it was doing well but seeing 12/20 of recent payments powered by Link is something. Also it looks like they just grabbed link .com which shows they're serious about this. 👀
We just launched on
@ProductHunt
! 🍻🍻🍻
Yeah we’re getting people to pay for podcasts 🙈
Because when creators get paid, they produce more awesome stuff 🤷♂️
ProductHunt Link -
$9k in sales and 1065 note-takers so far and this one feedback that made our day. 💛
Looks like we might get to build out this product for decades after all. 🌱
My wife and I built something that we’ve been using every single day...
Introducing , an AI note-taker that’s truly intelligent.
There’s also a bit of backstory which we’re reluctant to share but here you go.
Back when we were featured on the Atlas homepage. That BMC logo though. 😭
Fun fact: we ended up building 5 platform businesses on top of Stripe Connect.
Buy Me a Coffee (2017-)
Bio Link (2020-)
Brew (2019)
1-on-1 (2021-23)
Giftapp (2023-24)
Voicenotes (TBD)
😍 We are live on Product Hunt today!
📈 Since the beta launch 6mo ago, we now serve 170k creators and 4M monthly visitors.
🚢 We just shipped QR code and apps for iOS & Android
❤️🔥 Show us some love:
And more!!!
⚡ Lifehack Product of the Year: History Search
💪 Health & Fitness Product of the Year:
@GoRocketBody
📚 Founder Book of the Year: MAKE Book by
@levelsio
💰 Fintech Product of the Year:
@BuyMeACoffeeHQ
today we crossed 250k creators on & welcome more than a thousand new creators every day. 💜
planning something special for the early adopters! (first 300k?)
some stats:
- Zero to 40,000 creators in a month
- 1.2M pageviews in the last 30 days
- average page speed down to 80ms ⚡️
- feel-good metrics: 23k alexa rank, 286k backlinks,
#1
in google for "bio link"
- wholly run by a 2-person team
🙏❤️🔥
I’m not saying nice things about Stripe (just) because
@collision
and
@patrickc
sent me some of the most delicious Irish shortbread I’ve ever had, it truly came from my heart. 😌
Link by Stripe is low-key crushing it.
I knew it was doing well but seeing 12/20 of recent payments powered by Link is something. Also it looks like they just grabbed link .com which shows they're serious about this. 👀
Can report that
@Stripe
still operate very much like a startup. Talking to founders & helping them is what they do.
Thanks for the fun evening. It was so nice to see
@edwinwee
,
@caitbhri
,
@dps
,
@bentossell
and all the AI hackers.
I was writing about the network effects of BMC, and came across this relevant reference, which I had no memory of whatsoever.
If I need
@RoamResearch
to recall something I read 2 weeks ago, imagine what it'll do to my research a few years from now!
#roamcult
Awesome to see this growth across all creator platforms
@buymeacoffee
's tipping and membership volume exploded last week
We're planning to waive all our fees for the month of April -- it's the least we could do!
We hit 1M+ daily unique visitors on
@teachable
for the first time yesterday
Yesterday was up 30% over last Monday, which was up 40% over the Monday before
Never seen anything like it
Today we launched a new homepage and a dozen new features. But today’s not a day to celebrate that. We’re waiving fees for all creators on Buy Me A Coffee for the entire month of April. We help this helps <3
We’re waiving fees all month, because it’s the right thing to do for our creators 💯
P.S. Definitely not April Fools (we don’t have time for that right now)
FRIENDS, we’ve been building for the last 3 months… CLAIM YOUR NAME, FIRSTNAME, NICKNAME, WHATEVER ASAP. We’re about to email 436,000 creators on
@buymeacoffee
.
RTs appreciated 🙏
🥁BIG ANNOUNCEMENT🥁
We are super excited to finally announce
@biodotlink
- The One Link for All Your Links.
👉
Go make one now if you want to grab your first name as username😉
PS - QT this tweet w your to get that blue tick☑️
@awilkinson
We’re building our engineering team in Kerala, after being in SF for a year after YC.
Runway extended by more than 3x, and we’re shipping faster than ever before. It def helps to have roots here.
@ljin18
Spot on. We’re seeing tons of artists switching from Tumblr to
@buymeacoffee
and keeping only their paid fans.
They enjoy publishing for their 500 supporters vs 10k followers
40 websites to promote your startup and get backlinks for free.
Sorted by domain rating (DR).
Direct submit links in the comment below 👇
1. Product Hunt (
@ProductHunt
) (91) 🥇
2. Buy Me a Coffee (
@buymeacoffee
) (91) 🥇
3. Crunchbase (
@crunchbase
) (90) 🥈
4. Hacker News
Stripe Atlas is probably the best thing that happened to non-US entrepreneurs or right up there somewhere.
Setting aside the next couple of hours to watch this in full.
Jeff Weinstein (
@jeff_weinstein
) is a product lead at Stripe, where he helped grow their payment APIs to hundreds of billions in volume and transformed the way founders start companies into a few simple clicks with
@atlas
. Prior to Stripe, Jeff led several startups and sold
1/ I wanted to show you some sneak peek this week, but instead we DEPLOYED TO PRODUCTION 🔥😄
If you’re a creator, get an invite here 👉
Week 2 highlights: our first ever podcast 🎙, meeting
@Jason
🦄, shipping
@BREWdotcom
alpha 🚢 & laptop stickers!
Formula: Problem, Agitate, Solution.
P: identify main problem your audience has.
A: agitate with emotions & stressors.
S: offer your product as the solution.
Use for: landing pages
Example:
@buymeacoffee
13/ Since you're here: we accept support in likes, RTs, feedback (jijo
@brew
.com) and internet karma ❤️✌️
And thanks
@joannapedrina
for assuring me that this tweetstorm thing is not a crazy idea 🙌
#brewingup
I made my first dollar writing a 300-words article for someone on DigitalPoint forums.
My account dates back to 2007, so I was like 12 or something.
Some people remember their first dollar more than their first love I suppose 😂
Seeing people make their first dollar while doing things they love is one of the best parts of working at BMC💜
Congratulations Kiara and
@MondayMinutes
. You totally deserve it. Keep writing💯
To many more☕️
nothing like waking up at 5 and getting excited about all the crazy ideas.
by the look of our immediate roadmap, I think my team is going to hate me 🤦♂️
look at the set 🤯
and they gave me the Press badge so i’m gonna be pressing hard.
seriously though, thank you
@edwinarbus
,
@caitbhri
,
@alypavs
&
@stripe
team for the special invite. 💜
@dvassallo
It's the opposite for me. I take notes to take my mind off of that and keep a clear head.
Bonus feature is that you spot bad ideas pretty quickly when you write them down.
1/
@Stripe
’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we’re proud to do our part by supporting creators everywhere! 🤗 We’re so excited to announce that Buy Me A Coffee has become a Stripe Verified Partner!
#WorksWithStripe
🔊 We are so excited to announce that
@BuyMeACoffeeHQ
is now a
@Stripe
Verified Partner!
Buy Me A Coffee
#WorksWithStripe
to help creators around the world get the support they deserve 👨🎨✨
@ethan_tan
@OpenAI
Sure, but
@OpenAI
/
@sama
introduced it as an upgrade which confused devs like me and has led to questionable UX.
We switched back to 4-turbo and zero complaints so far. It’s still the best model available in the market.
@voicenotesai
The app works perfect in recording. But, retrieve data from -!! Other profiles !!- Who is Alex Johnson?? (All questions I asked the AI gave answers totally unrelated to my data). Sad to see such poor performance
But this is honestly what sent me over the edge.
I never expected such an amazing contribution and then to have these king words and appreciation. 😭😭😭😭
I’m crying!
Apple rejected our app for not adding ‘Sign in with Apple.’
Ended up removing our Facebook login to get it approved.
This is not right, and thank you
@benthompson
&
@dhh
for doing your thing!
I have now heard from multiple developers, both big and small, that over the last few months Apple has been refusing to update their app unless their SaaS service adds in-app purchase. If this has happened to you please email me blog @ my site domain. 100% off the record.
When we launched this product, it was
#1
on ProductHunt - but no real volume/usage for over 3 mo.
We considered shutting it down to focus on the core product.. then it started picking up. Today it make up for nearly half the volume :)
sometimes it’s a good idea to wait ☕️
just changed my bio
from “having the time of my life building for the creatives of the world”
to “trying to build as many beautiful things as i can before the shit hits the fan”
One of the new BMC creators earned $7k over the weekend and 95% of it was from donations, not memberships!
Imagine what Patreon creators are missing out by not starting a BMC page🤯
A new way to experience
#ACMilan
, a unique sound adventure 🔴⚫
Check out our podcasts 🎧
Un modo speciale di vivere il Milan, un'esperienza unica 🔴⚫
Scopri i nuovi podcast rossoneri 🎧
#SempreMilan
6/ Dinner at Stripe HQ. Thanks for having us,
@andylouisqin
! It was an amazing coincidence to meet
@patrickc
. We look up to you, not just for what you’ve built at Stripe, but for your thoughts on immigration, rationalism, internet economy, etc. + please do more podcasts :)
@andrewchen
building an ambitious startup is a zero sum game. It'll take a toll on your health, personal life and pretty much everything else. No two ways about it :)
@theSamParr
Can confirm. Truly amazing business. I built which is one of its biggest competitors (250k active installs today), but didn’t end up selling data.