Polar

Maker

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Dear builders, After over a year of building Polar, we’re thrilled to launch v1.0 on Product Hunt today 🎉 We started Polar with the mission of getting open source developers paid. By building a fully open source (GitHub) funding & monetization platform designed for them. Today, Polar is trusted by thousands of developers and is an official GitHub funding option. However, as we’ve been building, countless developers have been laid off all over the world, and an endless list of AI startups are emerging with the promise of replacing even more developers. Painting a grim picture of the future for developers. We wanted to build towards a different future. A future of developers thriving independently. Shipping more open source, solo products and indie startups. Getting paid to code on their passions. So for our v1.0, we’ve expanded to focus on all developers who seek to ship independent software - builders, indie hackers and open source maintainers alike. Polar v1.0 now offers: - Donations, crowdfunding, memberships, digital products and SaaS - Built-in product and subscription benefits. From license keys, file downloads, private GitHub repository access, Discord invites, and more. - Powerful custom integrations using our API, Webhooks, OAuth & SDKs - Powered by Polar as the Merchant of Record - handling sales tax & EU VAT So you can focus on building your passion. We’ll focus on the infrastructure to get you paid. We really hope you like the product & appreciate the support today 🙏🏼 But more importantly, we’d love to hear your feedback and how we can better serve you. Let’s build the best monetization platform for developers, together 💪🏼

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9mo ago

Andreea S.

Surfsite AI

@birk Congrats on the launch of Polar! 🚀

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9mo ago

Sadi

@birk Are there options for Metered subscriptions?

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9mo ago

François Voron

Polar

Maker

@birk @hellosadi Hey, software engineer at Polar here! Not yet, but that's on our roadmap 🙂

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9mo ago

Birk Jernström

Polar

Maker

@andreea_staicu Thank you so much Andreea! 🙏🏼

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9mo ago

Sadi

@birk @fvoron Great! thank you, looking forward!

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9mo ago

Marc Seitz

Papermark

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.

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9mo ago

Birk Jernström

Polar

Maker

@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.

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9mo ago