rorygibson
Joined 9 years ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Beautifully written and illustrated.
Also informative, and funny.
Top marks.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi!
Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves.
Warning: shameless plug.
It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We offer Donations that work as you describe.
You could check it out - https://trolley.link
(you can email me direct at [email protected] if you want to know anything more)
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi!
Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves.
Warning: shameless plug.
It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We offer digital downloads that work as you describe.
You could check it out - https://trolley.link
(you can email me direct at [email protected] if you want to know anything more)
Comment · 6 years ago
My consulting work is pretty quiet right now so I'm working lots on Trolley [1] - my payments tool.
Lots of people right now seem to be looking for new ways to get paid / make money / start little businesses from home, and being able to send quick payment links over social / SMS seems a common requirement. (a 2nd / 3rd-order COVID effect I guess!)
Things are taking off for Trolley - acquiring 1-2 new customers a day right now :) Trolley is still just me, so I'm plenty busy!
[1] - https://trolley.link
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm slightly surprised by Patreon's pricing, given they're not a discovery platform - it's really just subscription payments and some simple CRM stuff...
It's pretty easy to make a simple facility for accepting subscription payments.
You can do this with any website, plus a tool like Trolley [1] - of which I'm the creator, btw - with no technical knowledge. The fee structure (2% for Trolley, plus your Stripe fee of ~2%) comes out less than Patreon, and you're not inside a walled garden.
Use the webhooks to link to it a CRM of your choice - probably on a free plan - and you're golden (yeah ok, maybe this bit isn't entirely non technical)
I should probably write a blog post about this, tbh :)
[1] - https://trolley.link
Comment · 6 years ago
The only thing you lost was your humanity?
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm using Middleman [1] for the homepage of my product Trolley [2] - love it.
As an ex-Rails guy, ERB is so familiar, and the rest of the structure just makes sense.
Comment · 7 years ago
Looks pretty flexible and interesting... I particularly like that you can scale-up the complexity of the programming as you get better (eg moving from Scratch to Python to ROS)
Comment · 7 years ago
https://www.ideasarecheap.net
^^ I built this more or less on a bet about a year ago. Give it a dollar and it will give you a startup business idea.
(No Markov chains here, it's a couple of arrays of industries and keywords and a JS function that uses Math.random()... )
Comment · 7 years ago
I built, and run, Trolley [1], a simple payments tool that lets you take payments from any website (or just a link).
It's Clojure in the back end, on Postegres, on Heroku. Everything in the product front-end is ClojureScript, with reagent, hosted in S3 behind CloudFront.
All deployments through CircleCI, GitHub for VCS. Emacs for development, on a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu :)
Marketing website is a static site, built with Middleman; again, CloudFront + S3.
Comment · 7 years ago
Substack is cool - but it's kinda expensive.
I wrote a short blog a few months ago about how to get most of the benefits it offers with way less cost (and without being tied to a single platform) - plugging together Mailchimp and Trolley with a static website and a l'il bit of Zapier.
https://trolley.link/2019/03/03/paid-email-newsletter.html
(Disclosure: https://trolley.link , which I've used for the payment elements in this example, is my product)
Comment · 7 years ago
"People don't want chatbots"
I'm working with a successful ecommerce company who have hugely improved conversions on their (high touch, bespoke but sold online) product by introducing a chatbot.
For some use cases, customers like them very much indeed.
Comment · 7 years ago
https://trolley.link - my payments project.
It lets you put a payment button on any website and pop up a cart; single products, donations, deposits, subscription / recurring payments.
Customers are using it to power charity donations, self published book sales, physical product sales & shipping, membership fees for clubs and so on.
You can integrate it to Mailchimp and use it to put together a paid subscription email newsletter... or use it to make your own Patreon at much much lower cost to you.
It uses Stripe as the gateway in the back end. (To use Stripe Checkout you still need a back end to handle token exchange. Trolley handles that for you.)
Comment · 7 years ago
So much so that I made this for fun a few months ago :)
Currently working on Trolley - https://trolley.link - a payments app that lets you pay with Stripe from any website (including static sites with no server back end).