{
  "id": 541326,
  "title": "What I learned building a payments page with no payment processor - A free, self-hosted, zero commission donation platform",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/what-i-learned-building-a-payments-page-with-no-payment-processor-a",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T07:01:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/shivams136/what-i-learned-building-a-payments-page-with-no-payment-processor-a-free-self-hosted-zero-lne"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "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.",
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [
    "\"buy-me-a-chai\" donation page template released for Indian creators",
    "Static site template allows anyone to fork, edit YAML, deploy free on GitHub Pages",
    "Project taught about payment systems and building payments page without infrastructure"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}