I'm curious what the main differences are compared to all the other platforms
Jumped to the comment section for this as well. Any open source devs successfully fund their projects through similar services that can give input on polar.sh and its competitors?
I’ve done open source for ~4 years, and got my first(and only) subscriber on GitHub a few months ago.
I’ve enabled Polar on one single repo, and the creator of an issue donated 100USD if it was closed. Today I was paid from Stripe.
Hey! More funding options for open source is incredible. Have you thought about opening up the platform to more than just Github? Having Github be the sole source for all open source projects is not very healthy for the ecosystem. There are other platforms like Codeberg and Sourcehut.
I understand and agree with the sentiment, but "why only GitHub?" comments are practically at the top of every similar HN thread. There's certainly no harm in asking. The question strikes me as naive though, akin to asking "have you thought about using precious capital and momentum on .00001% (clearly exaggerated) of the DVCS market?" The sad truth is "healthy for the ecosystem" isn't really profitable. I'm sure supp…
If we don't fight this concentration of power, we're doomed to a Microsoft future. You might make good profit for a few quarters on the way there, but "not healthy for the ecosystem" is a gross euphemism for what's at the end of that road.
I understand and agree with the sentiment, but "why only GitHub?" comments are practically at the top of every similar HN thread. There's certainly no harm in asking. The question strikes me as naive though, akin to asking "have you thought about using precious capital and momentum on .00001% (clearly exaggerated) of the DVCS market?" The sad truth is "healthy for the ecosystem" isn't really profitable. I'm sure supp…
If we don't fight this concentration of power, we're doomed to a Microsoft future. You might make good profit for a few quarters on the way there, but "not healthy for the ecosystem" is a gross euphemism for what's at the end of that road.
I'm not sure I agree, and as a rule of thumb don't really see much value in the arguments of those who seemingly can predict the future, especially when spreading FUD is the primary mechanism for supporting their prediction.