Show HN: CheerAd – Let your audience support your website with paid messages

mjpa86 · 2026-01-02T13:40:57 1767361257

Warning: If you click on the Dashboard link in the menu, it makes it impossible to use the back button to get back to HN.

Am I missing something or is there is no pages that actually show what they look like?

niyoseris · 2026-01-02T14:00:59 1767362459

Thanks for feedback. adding some previews to the guide.

and on the CheerBoard section you can see sites which uses the system with live https://cheerad.com/pages/cheerboard.html

and also a demo page http://cheerad.com/pages/demo.html

and also i guess fixed the button issue.

Thanks for valuable feedback.

mjpa86 · 2026-01-02T14:31:00 1767364260

The back button breaking seems to be if you're not logged in, as loading the dashboard redirects to the homepage. Might be better to show a modal or something prompting the user to log in or at least use window.location.replace so it doesn't kill the back button.

The demo page looks to be what I was missing, are these placed in a specific location (eg the bottom right corner of the window) or is that up to the site owner?

niyoseris · 2026-01-02T15:32:39 1767367959

thanks for second review.

The snippets are all depend to the web page owner. They decide where to paste the code. If they have script limitations, they can also use a single button to get donations without any messages.