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Polar – European, open source fintech-team of 3 raises $10M seed led by Accel(twitter.com)
12 points by birk 1y ago|2 comments
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Mitchell Hashimoto joins Polar.sh as an advisor(mitchellh.com)
39 points by birk 2y ago|8 comments
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by birk 3y ago
So proud to have SerenityOS & Ladybird onboard Polar. You're such an inspiration and the community is incredible with talented & kind developers uniting to build something many deem impossible to begin with. Thanks for showing
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by birk 3y ago
Thank you! Yes, we've shipped most of the features mentioned as aspirations in that original post now. We'll soon share an updated one on the big goals for 2024 :) Agree. I love our issue funding feature (now with contributor rewa
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by birk 3y ago
Thank you! Important callout: We designed issue funding for maintainers & contributors vs. bounty hunters. We don't believe in traditional bounties. More on this here: https://polar.sh/polarsource/posts/in
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by birk 3y ago
We're building on Stripe Connect with the following countries supported for payouts today: https://docs.polar.sh/faq/maintainers/#which-countries-are-s... Will expand as we can with Stripe. Long-term, in orde
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by birk 3y ago
Yes, supporting more platforms is definitely something I see as part of our mission and long-term development. Started with GitHub since it's where most open source initiatives are hosted + analysis on large registries, e.g npm, pypi,
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by birk 3y ago
Just to help highlight some big updates since: - Posts & newsletter support to build direct relationship with your community - Subscriptions to offer sustainable & recurring funding - Built-in subscription benefits: Premium posts, D
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by birk 3y ago
Thank you! :)
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by birk 3y ago
Hey HN, Birk from Polar here. We're building a platform for open source developers offering better funding & community tools. We're building it open source too: https://github.com/polarsource/polar Here t
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Alma – An experimental playground for generative graphics(polar.sh)
2 points by birk 3y ago|0 comments
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by birk 3y ago
I think you're underestimating the amount of friction that requires and as a result how many don't bother. Let's remove the friction entirely and see what happens. Shared some more context re: this here: https://ne
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by birk 3y ago
Answered another comment re: enshitification here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36755232
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by birk 3y ago
> My open source work is a hobby. If you want to give me some money for something I would do anyway, I probably won't say no. Polar is designed for maintainers and to give them complete control. So you can decide which issues Polar
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by birk 3y ago
Great thread and feedback re: administrative considerations. I believe it's our job at Polar to streamline this as much as we can leveraging Stripe Tax, Atlas and more. Of course, it's a massive topic and each country is unique, b
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by birk 3y ago
I spoke to a lot of companies in the early days of Polar. 90% of them said the same things. 1. Sponsorship is hard to sell internally. Only possible to get small budgets with the motivation of advertising towards developers (be it their p
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by birk 3y ago
Completely agree. I've run into this many times too and having talked with a lot of companies, I know the same is true for a lot of them. As Polar removes the friction here, it will hopefully accelerate our ability to sponsor such effo
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by birk 3y ago
> No doubt Polar can be a better product overall and focus on things that GitHub would never do. GitHub has a major distribution advantage though. Could see them adding something basic into GitHub Sponsors along with first-party UI that
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by birk 3y ago
Huge fan of StackAid! Glad you're using it! Just to clarify and out of curiosity, what do you mean with "doesn't lock anything down" in the context of StackAid vs. Polar?
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by birk 3y ago
Thank you! Excellent feedback and completely aligned with the intent here. > It also means that money is committed upfront by the companies, i.e. the money is real and exists, has been set aside for this thing and in case of a dispute po
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by birk 3y ago
It's 100% the responsibility of the founders and leadership. I think enshittification is more a consequence of either 1) current metrics not matching costs 2) loss of long-term vision of further innovation (often once it's no long
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by birk 3y ago
I don’t think we’re in disagreement as it relates to getting maintainers better funding. We absolutely agree a core unlock there is to recognize the value-add services on top and being able to create services and subscriptions around those.
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by birk 3y ago
And I salute you for it, truly. Intent here is not for each commit across all of OSS to be paid for. Or that every maintainer has to charge for add-on services. Polar is designed for maintainers who either 1) spend an enormous amount of t
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by birk 3y ago
With Polar today only the maintainer receives the pledges once an issue/feature is completed. However, we're working on the ability for maintainers to split that with any potential contributors. It's definitely an important f
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by birk 3y ago
I answered this thread on the topic the other day which hopefully clarifies: https://github.com/orgs/polarsource/discussions/391#discussi...
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by birk 3y ago
Here's my thinking re: GitHub on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736826
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by birk 3y ago
Thanks toyg! Re: GitHub, I answered another comment on this note here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36736826
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by birk 3y ago
Thank you xNeil! Focus & velocity is key. This roadmap is our #1 priority, sole focus and ultimate business. It would be GitHub's #1058 priority – if ever. I love GitHub. They're the foundational layer of development in the ec
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by birk 3y ago
Working on docs for the site. Clear we can do a better job explaining this. Until then, I answered this thread on the topic the other day which hopefully clarifies: https://github.com/polarsource/polar/discussions&
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by birk 3y ago
Thank you! If you are who I think you are we’re already connected, but otherwise I’d love to chat: birk[at]polar.sh

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