Mission
RECOVER THE $10 I WASTED ON THIS DOMAIN
You don't need to.
You probably shouldn't.
Pay me anyway.
No product. No subscription. No investment.
Just an objectively questionable financial decision.
Pick an amount. Stripe handles payment. You receive absolutely nothing.
You stay on PayMeAnyway.com to pay. Card details are handled by Stripe. Minimum €1, maximum €500.
Only entries where someone explicitly opted in. Stripe billing names are never published automatically.
The wall is empty. History is waiting for a bad decision.
Optional. Public opt-in only. This is not a competition you should enter.
No public heavyweights yet.
PayMeAnyway.com is an internet experiment. Visitors can voluntarily send money to the creator without purchasing a product or service.
The project began as an experiment to see whether strangers on the internet would voluntarily pay someone for essentially nothing.
Specifically: I wasted about $10 on this domain. The mission is to get that money back — €9, give or take. After that, the experiment continues anyway.
Contributions may help fund independent internet projects, domains, servers and experiments.
PayMeAnyway is not a charity and contributions should not be represented as tax-deductible charitable donations.
But let's be clear:
You are not buying anything.
This is not an investment.
This is not a charity.
You're just paying me anyway.
More detail: About Pay Me Anyway.
Totals only include verified completed Stripe payments. Initiated, cancelled, failed, refunded, disputed, and test-mode records are not counted as successful contributions in production.
In practice, contributions help fund servers, domains, and independent projects I build.
Nothing.
No.
No claim is made that it is. Treat it as a voluntary contribution unless applicable law says otherwise.
You probably shouldn't.
To me. In practice it helps fund servers, domains and independent projects I build.
See the Payments & refunds page. Refund handling follows Stripe and applicable consumer payment rules. Do not assume a discretionary goodwill refund is guaranteed.
Unfortunately, the payment processor is.
Share the experiment. Receive nothing in return, again.