I wanted a supporter page. Simple enough.

Except every tool that does this well: Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi,

GitHub Sponsors- runs on Stripe. And Stripe isn't available in

a big chunk of the world. India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh,

most of Southeast Asia, invite-only at best, flat out unavailable

at worst.

So what do developers do instead? They cope.

They paste a UPI ID in their README. They share a Razorpay link

in a DM. They put a PayPal button that eats 5% and confuses

half their audience. It works, barely, but it feels janky and

more importantly it doesn't scale. You can't build a supporter

relationship on a UPI ID buried in a README.

I got tired of seeing that. So I built something better.

What Buy4Chai is

A self-hostable supporter page you fork, configure in one file,

and deploy in 10 minutes. It sits on top of whatever payment

gateway actually works where you are.

No platform. No middleman. No fees.

You fork it → edit chai.config.js → deploy to Vercel → paste

a badge in your README.…