About buymeatoken

The internet runs on the unpaid work of founders, creators, vibecoders, and engineers. They publish demos, write threads, ship side projects, and maintain tools that thousands of people rely on every day — usually for free.

buymeatoken is a funding platform with a single purpose: make it dead simple for a fan to cover a Builder's next million tokens of compute — and have it translate into real income for the person who built the thing.

Why "AI Tokens"?

Because tokens are the actual unit Builders run on. Every demo, every weekend hack, every OSS tool a Builder ships costs them inference dollars on the way out. So when a fan drops a fund, we show them exactly how many tokens that buys: "Your $5 just bought ~1.6M Sonnet input tokens for them."

Under the hood it's plain USD — settled directly to the Builder's bank via Stripe. The Builder receives the full amount; the customer covers card processing on top.

The AI Pricing Thinking Framework

Tokens are the unit Builders run on, but they aren’t a unit fans can reason about. So we translate every fund into the work it actually buys: “~5 bug-fix sessions for Alice”, “~3 newsletter issues for Ben”, “~2 weekend hacks for Casey”. The deliverables are tuned to each Builder’s persona — and any Builder can override the catalog with a freeform line on their profile or project page. Money means something again.