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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 dee…

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 ou…

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://pola…

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 wit…

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…

Just to help highlight some big updates since: - Posts & newsletter support to build direct relationship with your community - Subscriptions to offer sustainable & recurring fundin…

Thank you! :)

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/…

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…

Answered another comment re: enshitification here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36755232

> 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 com…

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, …

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 m…

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 wil…

> 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 b…

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?

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 …

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 vis…

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 b…

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 f…

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…

I answered this thread on the topic the other day which hopefully clarifies: https://github.com/orgs/polarsource/discussions/391#discussi...