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MakeCents — Micro-Donations for Media.

A donation platform and Chrome extension to fund quality journalism from outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times.

ReactTypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBStripe / PayPal

The brief

Important but unprofitable journalism struggles to reach readers. MakeCents set out to create cash inflows for media companies so they could surface the news that matters.

What we built

We built the web app and a Chrome extension from scratch, on a React/TypeScript front end and Node.js/MongoDB backend, with Facebook, PayPal and Stripe integrations, media analytics and donation history — a working beta the client could test in practice.

Key features

▸Donate to media sources

▸Chrome extension for top outlets

▸PayPal & Stripe payments

▸Media analytics & donation history

Start the conversation

Two minutes of questions about your own build, answered by a senior engineer. You get a written plan and a number before you commit to anything.