I’m experimenting with an extremely minimal donation page — no accounts, no text, no explanation, just a fixed $1 payment via well-known processors. The idea was to remove all friction and all persuasion, and see what happens. In practice, almost nobody converts. I’m curious how the HN community sees this: – Is trust the missing piece? – Does minimalism backfire in payments? – Or do people need context, even for $1?

This is the experiment I’m referring to: https://sendonedollar.net