After a whole bunch of time and a little bit of lost sleep, and also some Python, my website, here, the one you're reading, can now accept subscriptions and one-time donations, on-site! No more clicking through to Patreon, or Liberapay, or Ko-fi, or other third party sites that require additional accounts, and take their own cuts before the banks take their cuts and so on and so forth. But, this is only the start.
For the longest time, I was getting sick and tired of using Patreon. I kept thinking, "Why the hell am I writing blog posts on my website, so that I can write an update blog post on Patreon to let subscribers know that they can come read the blog post I've written on my actual website?"
It's kind of annoying, isn't it?
If you're from my Patreon, and you're reading this, yeah, that's kind of why I haven't updated it much, or at all lately.
I'm writing things ... here ... on my website, and people should be able to just subscribe ... on the website.
Well, now you can.
With a little bit of luck, some Python integrated with my Nginx server, and Stripe API calls, you can just ... subscribe. To my site. Right here. Or, if subscriptions aren't your thing, you can send off a one-time donation, for any reason! You like what I wrote? You like my music but you don't feel like buying the album on Bandcamp?
Solved.
And, since this is integrated with Stripe's API, it's also technically connected to the same account my Bandcamp payments are processed through.
But, I mentioned at the beginning of this post that this was only the start, and that's correct.
Ultimately, I want to sell my music, my albums, and anything else I make, right here on my website.
I want to cut out as many middlemen as possible, and just be my own content creator and payment collector.
If you've subscribed to other websites, you've probably seen this all before in a very similar way, but you can check out the new support/subscription page, here. I've tested these links myself, and these pages are very preliminary, since I want to add more to them, but subscriptions work, and donations work. I, uh, had to spend money on myself just to be sure that they did.
Anyway, thanks for reading!
Source: https://mkultra.monster/webdev/2025/09/ ... ated-subs/
