In our quest to fill a few gaps in the HIVE toolbox, @thecrazygm and I have put together a verbose url solution to minimum friction requests for payment on HIVE and seamlessly added it to our HiveTools chest of goodies.
Marvel with me at the new way to say, "Please give me 2 dollars":
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/utility/tipjar/ecoinstant/2/hbd
How it works
When asking for donations, the only variable we don't know will be the user who ends up sending the money. We don't want to have to make a link for every individual donor - but a nice feature by HIVE @keychain is that we can default to the "main" account.
Which means, barring writing a memo, we can usually get away with one click on the link, and one click on "send", for most persons making the payment. This vast decrease in friction is probably really good for projects on HIVE.
And since its a link, with markdown we can easily be like other sites and tell people to buy me a coffee or send my dev sustenance or plant a tree in the Andes. Everything is possible. And we have some down stream ideas of course - maybe you do too!
Well go - test it out and let us know.
We host a ~weekly series called "Is this Worth Money" where all users can, for a small fee (currently ~0.80 usd) request features or suggest tools that we should continue to build "for free". Issue #3 will be here on Thursday - so be sure to try and break these links any way you can by then!
Can anybody use this?
Right now HiveTools are set up to work with @keychain. We know that not everyone uses keychain, but that is exactly why we are developing the "My Radar" model, so we can judge which things are really wanted, and which things people just say they want.
So what do you think HIVE users? Is it worth a coffee?