Is there anybody being able to profit from a website based on discourse

[greenmeanie]

If my website ever takes off I will just run a donation link.
I really don’t have much into it since I run my own datacenter from home.

[alexjpanagis (Alex Panagis)]

May I ask what you used to implement a payment gateway?
https://i.scalemath.com/vYs11r

[DiscourseMetrics]

@DiscourseMetrics

I’m using Chargebee to handle checkouts, subscriptions and e-mails. Chargebee sends events to a custom plugin I’ve written that gives paying users access to a special group, badges etc. Another custom plugin locks down topics in certain categories that only members of that group should have access to

This is how I did it