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Beautifully written and illustrated. Also informative, and funny. Top marks.


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)


You take 2% off the top of what Stripe already takes. No different from DonorBox. You mention on your website that there are discounts for non-profits, but I assume it's not 100%.

The idea is that if Stripe offers it, they won't take anything off what they already take.


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)


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


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


The only thing you lost was your humanity?


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.

1 - https://middleman.app

2 - https://trolley.link


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)


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()... )


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.

1. https://trolley.link


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