GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
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Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#2Hey 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 to answer any questions you might have. You can read more about this on our own Polar page for Polar: https://polar.sh/polarsource/posts/github-supports-polar-in-...
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#3Congratulations!
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#4Hey 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 to answer any questions you might have. You can read more about this on our own Polar page for Polar: https://polar.sh/polarsource/posts/github-supports-polar-in-...
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.
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#5Congratulations!
Thank you! :)
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#6Previous discussion when they launched 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722702
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#7Hey 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 to answer any questions you might have. You can read more about this on our own Polar page for Polar: https://polar.sh/polarsource/posts/github-supports-polar-in-...
Are you planning to add support for non-Western countries?
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#8Previous discussion when they launched 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722702
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, Discord invites, Automate sponsor logos in README/site/docs, access to private GitHub repo(s)
- Rewards: Split issue funding with contributors
- Merchant of record & handling VAT for the above
- Public API
We've also lowered our pricing to 5%.
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#9I like that polar supports funding specific issues or pull requests. Seems like a nice way to help fund a project while also helping prioritize issues you care about.
Re: GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform
#10Hey 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 to answer any questions you might have. You can read more about this on our own Polar page for Polar: https://polar.sh/polarsource/posts/github-supports-polar-in-...
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.
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, confirmed that almost all of them where.
We're big fans of other platforms and looking forward to expand our support. But main focus now is helping open source developers on GitHub get meaningfully more funding & helping more than a few work on it full-time to even start small businesses. Once we've achieved that & proved our product can make a big difference, it's time to expand.