What I learned building a payments page with no payment processor - A free, self-hosted, zero commission donation platform
I just shipped buy-me-a-chai : an open-source "Buy Me a Coffee"-style donation page for Indian creators that charges 0% commission, forever . Not as a promotion — as architecture. There is no backend, no database, no accounts, and no payment processor anywhere in the project. It's a static site template: fork it, edit one YAML file, deploy free on GitHub Pages, and donors pay your bank account…
I just released a donation page template, buy-me-a-chai, for Indian creators that charges 0% commission, forever. It's a static site template, meaning anyone can fork it, edit a single YAML file, and deploy for free on GitHub Pages. Donors pay the creator's bank account directly without any payment processor in the middle. This project taught me a lot about how payment systems work and how to build a payments page without any payment infrastructure.
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