22 sats \ 3 replies \ @bumi 11 Oct 2022 \ on: Calling all bitcoin plebs.... Value For Value ⚡⚡⚡ bitcoin
nice! super cool that you take this route! please share your experience after a while.
At Alby we build tools to make such payments easy and bring it down to one click. Easiness and speed for the user is essential for the conversion rate - imo we must make it online as easy as dropping a dollar for a musician on the street (but more fun at the same time :D)
I recently also made a simple boost button. It uses WebLN to request the payment.
https://getalby.github.io/simple-boost/
Another option is this widget: https://widgets.twentyuno.net/
I also see you have a chat on that page. in the podcasting world boostagrams work really well - those are basically attaching sats to the messages a fan sends.
we now have programmable money so we can rethink the interactions and attach value streams from fans to artists.
Alby is great, so convenient being able to do a one click transaction from the browser! Basically, I'm running this release as a proof of concept and once strike is out in the UK which I'm hoping will be within the next 6 months or so, I will start encouraging regular fans to engage through the strike app as it will be easy for them to onboard and they can take it further if they're interested.. Don't know if that's a good idea...
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the nice thing about lightning is also that it does not matter who solves the onboarding problem. All of the websites and apps using lightning will benefit from that.
but onramp is also for Alby an important topic. "regular fans" want to put their fiat in, that's then transferred as sats.
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Thanks for the widget idea, just embedded it in my site, works great! https://www.joemartinmusic.com/highgravity
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