About buymeatoken
The internet is full of people building useful things before there is any obvious way to make money from them.
A small tool that saves someone an afternoon.
A demo that makes people see what is possible.
A library that quietly ends up in other people’s projects.
A thread, template, repo, prototype, or write-up that helps strangers move faster.
Most of that work starts the same way: someone spends their own time, energy, and money to make something useful, then shares it.
buymeatoken gives those people a simple way to be funded by the audience already paying attention.
Our mission
Make useful internet work easier to fund.
Not every project needs a subscription, a Patreon, merch, sponsorships, or a business model on day one. Sometimes the right ask is smaller and more direct: help cover the next experiment, the next bug fix, the next prototype, or the next write-up. And some people don’t drink coffee.
Builders keep 100% of the support they receive. Supporters can fund without creating an account. Contributions are paid in plain USD through Stripe, with optional token-based context for builders who want to show what that support helps cover.
Why tokens?
A lot of modern building now runs through AI tools.
That changes the cost of making things. A prototype is not just time anymore. A coding session, product demo, research pass, draft, or PR review can also burn real API credits.
buymeatoken makes that cost visible without making it weird.
A supporter can still give $5, $10, or $25 like they would anywhere else. But instead of a vague tip, the builder can show what that support roughly translates to: tokens, experiments, sessions, prototypes, or whatever unit makes sense for their work.
Underneath, it is still just USD sent to the builder.
Where we’re going
We want buymeatoken to be the easiest way to support people who build in public.
That means fitting into the places where their work already lives: GitHub READMEs, newsletters, podcast notes, personal sites, launch posts, demo pages, and project docs.
The point is not to turn every builder into a company.
The point is to make it easier for good work to keep going.