Birk Jernström
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Founder/CEO @polar_sh – Monetization platform for developers and the next generation of software | Ex-Director of Product @shopify
Stockholm
Joined December 2007
Thrilled to announce our $10M Seed led by @Accel today, with continued support from @AbstractVC & @MischiefVC, and incredible angels. Join us and let's build the future of billing for developers to empower the next generation of software 🚀
Announcing our $10M Seed Round led by @Accel alongside incredible angels 💫 It's never been easier to build & ship software. But it's also never been harder to monetize it. We’re building the open-source monetization platform to empower future one-developer unicorns. How? 🧵
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LinkedIn personas: Startup XP: No text. At most: Company bio (copy-paste) FAANG XP: 3-4 bullets for designing, implementing and coaching team members through super specific effort. Exceeding OKRs, of course. Some people run. Others climb mountain L9.
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that's it (tm)
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Which is your favourite US developer conference each year? Going to plan a US tour 2026 with a handful of trips and would love to plan them around some great conferences.
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Not long ago, I had to pitch hard for people to even talk to me about joining Polar. Now, I post a job opening and we get hundreds of applicants. Humbling.
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All usage based billing right now: It’s for raw usage with its inherent flaws and uncertain outcomes - covering direct costs. But consumers will only mass adopt to freely variable costs once it’s priced by successful outcome. Of course per unit pricing will then go way up to
I just paid ~$5 for a failed refactoring attempt, that I realized only when carefully reading diffs. the coding agent got himself into a tight spot without solution. I had to "undo" and start over. I still paid for bad service.
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be like @rasmickyy and add Polar to your stack https://t.co/LjKiyPRX4p
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I like prompting. But I love making SDKs shorter to type themselves than prompts to achieve the same outcome.
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Need a job? Join ICE today. ICE offers competitive salaries & benefits like health insurance and retirement plans.
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the fact that you can go from 0 to $11,500 with @framer in 60 days is insane. here’s the exact playbook that changed my life in 2 months: 🧵
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Crazy testimonial 😍 But… I don’t see any of these as our competitor, but incredible partners. We’ll empower future one-developer unicorns. The level of new abstraction needed on top of PSPs to support that is wild. Goal: All monetization- and business operations in 5 LOC.
Tried @polar_sh with @better_auth, it was the best experience possible. In our company, Ive integrated stripe, lemonsqueezy, razor pay, paypal, open and more and I know the pain of integrating and testing it. Seeing I just need to add some plugin to better auth and it handles
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Been solo again with our kids (3 & 2) for the past few days. They've pushed every single button known to man (physically and metaphorically), but those moments of playing, laughing, reading and them running to me vs. mom for comfort... Worth all the meltdowns.
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Ok, I'll take that action too @jornvandijk... @Dulajweb sell those templates with @polar_sh and you'll get another 10% bonus – $2k 💸 We offer a Framer plugin to make it easy for you 😎
Allright I’ll bite… @Dulajweb if you hit that $20k goal, @framer will add a 10% bonus — $2k 💸 Just share: 1️⃣ Weekly updates with #FramerChallenge 2️⃣ Wrap it up with a short video of your results And obviously, make it look dope. Deal?
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$ cat ~/polar/taming-clouds.md
europe! dream job alert! ✨ we're looking for a cracked staff infrastructure engineer. obsess over how we can scale, reduce latency and maintain world-class uptime. know someone? drop them in the replies. application below 👇
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”I apologize for such a long message - I didn’t have time to prompt for a shorter one” - Mark Twain
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Join today. We've grown 18.000%+ in the past 10 months and still almost doubled last month alone. We're not here to build yet another billing solution, but the next level of abstraction needed for the future software businesses being built today. Come shape it with us.
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🧹 Founder Associate (Stockholm - On-site) Young, entrepreneurial, ambitious with low-ego wanting to start your own startup? I need help running mine day-to-day 🙊 From strategic explorations to mundane tasks and everything in-between. Come work on it all first-hand.
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🙋🏼 Support Engineer (Europe - Remote) Support developers hands-on with their businesses. From responding to their questions, triaging issues and improving our docs, guides, examples and internal tooling. https://t.co/Xrob7i1Avm
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Support Engineer at Polar
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📊 Senior Data Engineer (Europe - Remote) Design, build and scale our internal data warehouse, analytics and reporting to our Metrics API for developers to gain impactful insights to grow their businesses. https://t.co/rXCVuACJAe
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Senior Data Engineer at Polar
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📈 Senior Growth Engineer (Europe - Remote) Help us and our customers shatter all ceilings towards one-developer unicorns. Combined with building out our affiliate & referral rewards to create a magical win-win loop. https://t.co/pZtdJuPFkU
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Senior Growth Engineer at Polar
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😍 Senior Product Designer (Stockholm – On-site) Work with me and @emilwidlund to design a world-class product experience and the platform for the future software businesses. https://t.co/cKA3iz5JzP
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Why Polar? It's never been easier to build, ship and scale software. But it's never been harder to monetize it. We're obsessed over solving this to empower the future one-developer unicorns. These...
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