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Polar — An open source monetization platform for developers
An open source alternative to Lemon Squeezy with better pricing. Built for developers to offer crowdfunding, memberships, digital products and SaaS within minutes. Stay focused on shipping your passion - leave upsales, billing and international taxes to us.
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@birk @hellosadi Hey, software engineer at Polar here! Not yet, but that's on our roadmap 🙂
@hellosadi @fvoron It's in our backlog, but adding it to our GitHub discussions too so you can subscribe, chime in and follow along. But definitely something we want to support in the near future.
https://github.com/orgs/polarsou...
Congrats on the launch, @birk and Polar team.
Amazing path to becoming the first open source merchant of record.
There are so many small things that we as open source developers need to manage outside our codebase, like license keys and I’m psyched that Polar is making our lives easier.
@mfts0 Thank you so much Marc - that means the world coming from you! So impressed with how you're building Papermark in public & open source.
The sentence "an open source merchant of record" gave me goosebumps.
@viktorhofte Thank you so much Viktor! That means a lot coming from you. Seriously, the metal button you designed for v1.run (Pontus shared a sneak peak) is probably amongst the craziest collection of pixels I've seen in decades
Awesome work. Developers need easier ways to sell their work, and it's nice to see an OS alternative to Lemon Squeezy. Event better if it was integrated with Swell (https://www.swell.is) for physical goods.
Keep it up!
This is so good, I can see myself using this even as a none coder. Really great. Well executed too.
@linusekenstam Thank you so much Linus! ♥️ Let me know next time you're back in snowy Stockholm - would be great to catch-up
Congrats @birk An open-source monetization platform with developer-friendly pricing sounds like a fantastic solution. It’s great to see a tool that helps developers focus on their craft while managing the complexities of billing and taxes.
I've been using Polar to fund open source contributions for [Athena Crisis](https://athenacrisis.com/open-so...) and it's been frictionless and fast. The 1.0 release looks awesome. I hope that long-term it can make more open source projects sustainable.
@cpojer We're so stoked to have Athena Crisis on the platform - such a wonderful game! You've been a dream to work with too and I've really appreciated the countless feedback messages you've sent me. It's clear you obsess over details and it's really motivating building a product used by someone who cares about their craft that much ♥️
Polar is an amazing product and truly helps the open-source community! Thank you for building this 🖤
The Polar team is the real deal. The care for both the community and the product is top top. Big fan of both product and team! Kudos on the launch!
@coolastekatten Oh wow, you're too kind Pontus ♥️ Really appreciate the support and kind words!
Huge congratulations to the team, followed Polar for nearly a year now ever since I saw Emil's amazing first drafts on twitter. Kudos for building for indies and open source maintainers, part of developers' ecosystem that was always very hard to monetize. I'm now considering switching my side project (data-analysis tool) to open source and build a community around it instead of monetizing the standard ways! Great work guys, you make the world a better place!
@rmnslcs Wow that is incredible to hear! I would absolutely love to chat and figure out how we can help. Feel free to join our Discord or to DM me on Twitter if you'd prefer.
https://dub.sh/polar-discord
Just so I understand the value proposition. What is the difference with Stripe for example?
And the 4% why it seems like Stripe is less expensive. What is the upside of using that project?
@tibozaurus Thank you so much Thibault! Excited to collaborate with Openstatus & thank you for keeping us on our toes in terms of our update (fortunately, we rarely use it)
Great launch & great video, would love to see Polar participate in OSS Pledge https://osspledge.com/
@birk Fantastic video presentation! The open-source approach is such a win for developers. How can developers contribute to the platform, and are there plans for community-driven enhancements?
@taras_tymoshchuk Thank you - really appreciate that! Yes, we definitely welcome contributors. Will invest a lot more in the coming months in better documentation and onboarding for contributors so that's a great first place to start: Try & give us feedback/issues along the way + help document.
Join our Discord and we'd love to help get you setup: https://dub.sh/polar-discord
Big fan of what Birk and the team have accomplished in a short amount of time. Look forward to seeing the impact they will make in the open source community.
@bdougieyo Thank you so much Brian! Really appreciate your support from day 1 and grateful to have you in our corner.
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