TipJoy.com
Feb 12, 01:18 PM by Eric Allen
I was reading Hacker News this afternoon and stumbled across an announcement for the launch of TipJoy. People have been talking about micropayments and how to monetize blogs for quite some time now, and the only answers I’ve seen so far are PayPal and advertisements. I don’t particularly care about making money from this blog, but TipJoy is so easy to add I figure, why not? So from here on out every article will have a “Tip This” button below it. If you like the article and feel like tipping me for it, just click the button! You are under no obligation to pay said tip (but you can if you want to), but at least it gives me feedback about what articles are good and gives everybody a warm fuzzy feeling.
These guys are a Y Combinator startup, so I have a special place in my heart for the company regardless of the product. I’d like to see this model succeed, and I’d love to see a YC startup make it happen. Kudos to Abby and Ivan!
