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CentiPenny - Micropayments with an "easy button"

CentiPenny (https://www.centipenny.com) is a micropayment processor that facilitates payments as low as $0.0001. There is no technical upper limit but the target market is purchases below $1 and particularly in the sub $0.50 range.

The API is simple and flexible and can be integrated with as little as one line of code.

Purchasing is fast and easy with 1-click and no-click purchasing.

Can be used as:

  1. A content paywall
  2. A pay-per-item add-on to subscription paywalls.
  3. A fast purchase/checkout processor for digital purchases
  4. In-game or In-app purchases.

We don't use cryptocurrencies, so it is available to all audiences.

Friendly customer service (aka me) who will help you with integration issues or with ideas of how you can monetize your project. You might be surprised at ways you can do that. There is a lot of money to be made by charging very small amounts.

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    Me: Who on earth would use....
    Also me: 🤯
    Honestly, I'm not sure if you realize the potential with this idea. If I were you, I'd be 🏃 with this!
    This WILL be the new privacy internet. Paywalls as we know it will be a thing of the past... Well OK, more likely, they will be an option for some, while an idea like yours will be the majority.
    There are soooo many people trying to figure out how in the heck to completely rebuild news channels and all sorts of other sites/businesses on the web. Man you got me feeling like this would be something I WOULD feel comfortable pitching to geet some funding for. Except I do believe you will ultimately for sure have to integrate crypto into it, and the more the better. But really you could use an api for that.
    I'm serious, I think your really on to something if you mRket this correctly. It will be all about what you market it as a product. It could easily be something that's nothing, or something that is huge. I refuse to pay for pay walls, as there are just WAY too freaking many that I'd

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      Thanks for the reply. Like you, I hate paywalls. I don't get enough value from any site to be worth $5 a month, but then again very few do. That isn't how we use the web anymore. I also hate ads with a passion. That is how this started.

      Even though we are technically b2b, I have tried to keep a heavy consumer focus because people have to buy in, which so far doesn't seem to be the hard part. We have 1-click purchasing because it's a penny, who cares. We also have auto-purchasing so that you don't have to do anything and aren't disturbed, it just buys it for you, up to a limit you set per business. I hope that would work for someone like you. That you wouldn't mind spending $0.01-0.05 as long as you don't have to actively think about it. We also ban targeted ads because if you are paying, you shouldn't also be the product.

      It is better for everyone. Businesses get significantly more money, so they hire more, produce better content and get rid of the clickbait headline, should have been a tweet stories. Users get better content and get their privacy back. If everyone pays a little, nobody pays a lot. So users can probably get all of their content for like $5-10 a month. It is like the internet a la carte.

      If we can get people to pay for content, it will be enormous. If not, we still have 3 other markets (in-app, in-game, and a general low end payment processor). All of which have big potential. It is a matter of convincing people to give us a try.

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