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Get paid coding on your passion. We're building the Patreon for Developers. Official GitHub funding option & built OSS ⭐
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Welcome
@mitchellh
to the team! We're honoured to have you as an advisor on our mission to help developers get paid to code on their passion ♥️
I've joined
@polar_sh
as an advisor! I think it benefits everyone for devs to have more options to get paid to work on their passions, to support upstreams, and for users to have more confidence/transparency in the software they're supporting/purchasing.
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We work in
@ladybirdbrowser
now 😍 What a fantastic milestone – it warms our heart that looks great in the most exciting open source browser being built today.
🔴 Ladybird browser update (January 2024)
Another solid month of steady incremental progress on
@ladybirdbrowser
🐞🌍
Although we didn’t have a big standout feature this time, we ended up improving all kinds of little things! 🤓
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Today, we're incredibly excited to announce contributor rewards with Polar 🎉
You can think of it as bounties, but don't worry – it's designed for maintainers and your communities for a change.
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We're so excited to work with
@ladybirdbrowser
and help their community build the next generation browser we all deserve 😍
We're also flattered that they're so kind to put their incredible talent towards helping us look sharp too on 🤓
We're partnering with
@polar_sh
to sponsor community work on
@ladybirdbrowser
! 🐻❄️🐞🌍
Starting today, we'll be opening up some of our GitHub issues for funding via Polar's system.
The basic idea is: people who want to see an issue fixed can commit to pitching in some $. Once a…
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Our team has $200/month/engineer to spend on open source issue funding, subscriptions (and soon one-off donations, PR tipping etc).
It's a sneak peak. Currently behind a feature flag - we need to build self-onboarding for teams.
If you're business is interested. DM or email ♥️
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We could not be more excited 😍
Worthy & massive problem: ✅
Ambitious backlog: ✅
Stellar team: ✅
Just getting started. Open source funding is about to improve big time.
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@awesomekling
This is so lovely and wholesome to read. So thrilled we can play a small & helpful part in the incredible Serenity & Ladybird journeys - it’s an honor ❤️
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Thrilled to be supporting the amazing
@trpcio
library and the talented maintainers & contributors behind it!
Just getting started 🎉
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Together, we can change the status quo of open source funding. From coffee money to a shot at independent careers & businesses - that's our mission.
Thank you for your support, contributions, feedback and
@github
stars ♥️
Let's build the open future we want, together.
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We're now live in public alpha 😍
Soon, we're also going to share our v1 wireframe & roadmap. We have big ambitions to build something truly amazing for maintainers & their communities.
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We're thrilled to introduce a npm package to seamlessly sync
@astrodotbuild
content with your
@polar_sh
page.
Best part: It's a community contribution from the incredible
@IsaacHarrisHolt
. That's the power of building open source ♥️
More details... 👇🏼
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@zeeg
@sindresorhus
Checkout this sneak peak of something behind a feature flag that we ourselves are using internally.
Each member of our team has $200/month to spend on OSS. Issue funding, subscription and even donations soon.
This feature will be made available to teams soon(ish).
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You can now set funding goals for specific issues/features
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜ 7️⃣0️⃣% 🚀
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We’re so happy that issue funding & rewards are helpful & work so well for the incredible
@ladybirdbrowser
& Serenity community ❤️
Recently we're putting some effort into custom Clang-based static analysis to catch safety and correctness errors in our codebase.
I've been filing issues with ideas for bad patterns it could warn about, and using
@polar_sh
to attach a small $ reward to each issue.
The results…
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We heard some of you missed our updated pricing as part of our recent launch announcement. We get it - it contained a lot of new stuff 😅
Our updated pricing is worth celebrating standalone: It's 5% now instead of 10% - it's already in effect.
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We're thrilled to support
@strawberry_gql
with their newsletter (moved from Mailchimp) – keeping their amazing community in the loop of their development + more benefits soon.
Incredible progress update too at that 💪🏼
Check out our recap of 2023 and what's we are thinking of working on this year ✨
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@__tinygrad__
@emilwidlund
We appreciate the good & direct feedback; your questions should be answered right off the bat on our site🙏🏼
1. You can opt to pay upon completion with Stripe invoicing (no intermediate step).
2. Our servers. If we die, our code can live on at least
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"It's like linktree for open source- and indie developers"
Setup beautiful pages on Polar for yourself, your GitHub organization- and projects.
Feature posts, projects, contributors, fundable issues & rewards, links and more.
Optimized to convert more subscribers & funding 📈
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Here is our roadmap for the next 3-4 months to build a "Sponsorship 2.0" for open source maintainers:
Let's build.
#buildinpublic
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@__tinygrad__
@emilwidlund
Curious what you would prefer the answers to be on 1 & 2 as we improve.
Our main focus is on helping maintainers get funding & leverage rewards to share it with their contributors. So respect & appreciate we might not be the best fit here & thank you again for the great feedback
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Silently launched over the weekend. A few developers discovered it, already enabled it and received hundreds of dollars in donations 🤯
Today, we're officially...
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Just launched support for annual subscriptions 🌎↺🌞
It's been a highly requested feature so we're thrilled to introduce it today.
Next up:
1. Donations
2. Pay once, i.e products (merchandise, license keys, downloads)
3. ....
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@alexdotjs
@sorenbs
@richardpoelderl
@ImSh4yy
@algoraio
Change to in the URL to pledge behind any issue. Or go to .
Example:
@alexdotjs
We'd love to say thank *you* + support with $1000. Which issues are you working on or want to?
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Introducing Early Access Posts
Offer a membership perk for support without restricting the broader community to access it later.
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We're so excited for our friends over at
@pydantic
! Such a great, talented & wonderful team building fantastic stuff 🚀
Closed beta this week.
We have so much still to do, but I'm very excited.
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That's $1.1 in MRR per newsletter subscriber – in less than one month.
Get subscribers on Polar instead of waiting for stars to turn into funding.
I started using
@polar_sh
as my writing platform 1 month ago.
In that time, I've gone from $0 to $132 MRR, by just writing about my OSS endevours. No dirty tricks - 100% organic growth.
This is the future of open source economy.
#buildinpublic
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We genuinely prefer to celebrate the success of our community vs. our own.
In fact, that's why our pricing is designed to ensure we *can't* celebrate unless our community is succeeding.
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Sneak peak of what we’ll launch early in 2024 as we’re building a Patreon for open source developers.
Subscribe to stay tuned 🙊
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We've started a changelog 🚢 Last two weeks, we've been focusing on making it super seamless to fund impactful open source efforts.
Some big new features ahead too so make sure to subscribe 🤓
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@wesleytodd
@zeeg
@ljharb
@lorenc_dan
@bitandbang
👀 Behind feature flags, but a feature we're using ourselves internally
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Our hosting provider (Render) has been experiencing broad outages in the past 30 min – unfortunately impacting us too. Seems to recover at the moment, but with some delays for certain services. We hope to be up soon again.
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Just became a happy business subscriber of
@quantizor
to support markdown-to-jsx which we use & love at Polar.
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We're so honoured by this post from
@LitestarAPI
on why they prefer to use Polar for their open source sponsorship ♥️
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Lovely shoutout in the
@changelog
podcast (4:00) ♥️
🗞 New episode of Changelog News!
👊
@HashiCorp
strikes
@OpenTofuOrg
back
🐻❄️
@polar_sh
is a creator platform for devs
📚 Common Corpus released by
@huggingface
🧐 Loki fact verification tool by
@libr_ai
🎙 hosted by
@jerodsanto
🎧
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Getting developers paid more than GitHub sponsors since 2024
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We're honoured to receive such high praise from
@awesomekling
– an incredible open source developer who inspires us & countless others daily!
Back to building the platform that will help many others follow in the same footsteps. Let's go 🚀
I often get asked how to replicate my success with OSS community building & crowd-funding.
My main recommendation: "make interesting content and post a lot!"
It's awesome to see
@polar_sh
building a dedicated "Patreon for developers" platform to streamline this approach 🤓🐻❄️
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With the weekend around the corner, we're excited to give your READMEs a chance to dress up
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Want to offer early access to premium posts to paid subscribers, but make them public after N days for everyone?
@DontBeEval
suggested this a few days ago. Since Polar is built on our public API, he has now made a GitHub action that automates this 😍
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Which next funding/revenue stream would you like to use with Polar?
Missing something? Share your suggestion below.
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More business reaching out to learn about Polar and how to fund their dependencies and select efforts.
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Working on documenting our long-term vision & V1 goals to be shared openly.
Join our Discord to get a sneak peak sooner and provide early feedback:
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@DavidKPiano
Sometimes I wonder if we should build an issue tracker designed for maintainers:
- Support crowdfunded issues ✅
- Priority to sponsors & members (soon)
- Show existing issues based on input
- Surface docs if issue == question
- Check reproducibility
- Auto mute bad messages
...
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🚀 Your Next Store is now public! Subscribe to get access to the codebase, updates, docs & support. Influence the roadmap & choose features we'll build next.
Join the future of e-commerce today! 🛒
#buildinginpublic
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Woke up to a beautiful post by the super talented
@raphaelameaume
. Introducing Fragment, an open source development environment for creative coding.
Read & subscribe to Raphaël - follow this space 😍
I am now on
@polar_sh
✨
I thought it would be great to start with an introduction about Fragment, the concepts behind it and a small overview of its features.
More technical posts and tutorials coming soon, so don't forget to subscribe 👀
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Wow a project that launched with Polar 😍
Introducing: piecesjs - Front-end framework for a versatile and native web components management.
Read more below. Give it a star & subscribe ♥️
I currently working on something new 👀
Piecesjs is a tiny (front-end) Javascript framework built on the top of native web components with a bunch of tools and utilities.
[alpha]
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@asleMammadam
@privatenumbr
We'd love to have you
@privatenumbr
😍 You're an amazing open source developer.
We also offer an easy embed for GitHub READMEs (example below) that stays in sync with your highlighted tiers via Polar. Combined with offering benefits built-in to the platform.
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Using our API & SDK you can easily power and/or sync your site with Polar; posts, subscriptions, newsletter, issue funding - the works.
@IsaacHarrisHolt
is now syncing his
@astrodotbuild
blog with Polar 🎉
I just got my portfolio site () successfully syncing with
@polar_sh
!
The best bit? It's all still statically-rendered - no SSR needed.
I goddamn love
@astrodotbuild
.
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Hello
@ArrowoodTech
– thrilled to see you on the platform with such a wonderful intro post! Incredible membership offerings too.
We're honoured to support contributors to Node & Undici – empowering so much of modern innovation ♥️
Exciting news! I'm launching a set of a sponsorship tiers on the
@polar_sh
platform to support my open source development.
Read my intro post here:
The first five "Advocate" sponsors will get a private, hour-long coaching session 🚀
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Checkout
@emilwidlund
Polar post on how he built this beautiful color picker 😍 Such a great read!
Introducing Harmony – a new kind of color picker.
Make anything beautiful with color harmonies at your fingertips.
An in-depth article on this will drop this weekend over at . Make sure to subscribe.
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We're now live in all countries supported by Stripe 🌍
First signup from Japan. Can't wait to see which other countries are soon represented.
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It’s hard to find a package.json that
@sindresorhus
hasn’t helped support with one of his 1K+ OSS repos 😍🤯
For the incredible type-fest initiative, people can now help fund awesome TS types & Sindre gives 100% in rewards to contributors 💪🏼
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@IsaacHarrisHolt
@gleamlang
Great video & awesome to see a familiar logo in it ☺️ We’re proud to have you on the platform Isaac!
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Great post by
@IsaacHarrisHolt
on the benefits of using
@withgraphite
.
This might push us to make the move ourselves 😎
Hey folks, we use
@withgraphite
at work for keeping our PRs small. But it's not perfect! I wrote an article on
@polar_sh
on how to save some CI money when you're using Graphite.
Check it
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@yagiznizipli
Welcome onboard Yagiz & thank you for your tireless efforts to make Node faster 🫡
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@CanadaHonk
Do it 👏🏼 Nothing to lose. Badge issues you want to see happen and you might be surprised what community members do to support & start getting funding vs. having to invest out of pocket solely.
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Want more OSS funding from businesses?
Don’t do sales only. It’s hard (we’ll help soon).
Offer an “expense it” tier with educational & early access content. Tap into existing & large “Learning & Development” allowances. From your *actual* users.
Go bottoms up.
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@awesomekling
@ladybirdbrowser
Awesome ❤️ We can help you manage the process :^) Would also love to pledge $3,000 to get to work. DM us if interested 🙂
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See an issue on Github and want to help support the maintainer(s) working on it? Just change in the URL to or goto
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We're thrilled to support David on his epic quest of improving PyO3 for the Python & Rust ecosystem.
It's such a great effort & we highly recommend you subscribe to keep up with some behind the scenes & deep dives ahead.
I've started a blog! This first post is a mixture of a "hello world" and a summary of what I'm thinking of next for PyO3 (hint: stronger community network).
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@matteocollina
We’re here to help 🤓
Using our issue funding & contributor rewards feature it’s super easy to set a specific funding goal for a new feature or “tip jar” for all issues.
Beautifully integrated with GitHub issues.
Makes it a clear option to fund vs. +1 ☺️
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@matteocollina
Our founding story in a tweet...
We're here to help any open source maintainer setup subscriptions, issue funding, donations & more to seamlessly charge for value-adds beyond the code already given.
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@_scriptr
@squidfunk
Thank you
@_scriptr
for the wonderfully kind words & support♥️
We've laid some exciting plumbing for an innovative business offering. Can't wait to share more & release it (~spring).
@birk
is also going to write a post on "how to hack commercial funding" in the coming weeks 👀
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@asleMammadam
@youyuxi
That would be 🔥 We’re working on something that would be really cool with this & help attract serious sponsorship to the Vite ecosystem.
Open to chat
@youyuxi
?
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@awesomekling
We're going to use posts now to write frequent, small, updates on improvements and have a place to pin them in the dashboard (not in the way, but noticeable).
Totally understandable you missed it over email alone + amongst other things 😅
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@asleMammadam
@stackblitz
Congratulations
@stackblitz
for gaining
@asleMammadam
as a collaborator - he's awesome! 😍
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@emilwidlund
@birk
@zegl
@fvoron
Congratulations to us for getting the honor to work with you full-time 💪🏼🚀
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@THyasser1
@AuthenticationX
Can’t wait to see it 😍 Are you using our GitHub Actions to automatically update & highlight a list of fundable issues in your markdown? ☺️
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Upvote on this GitHub suggestion would be super appreciated ♥️🙏🏼
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@DontBeEval
We’re glad to hear that ☺️ Can’t wait to see what you publish
@DontBeEval
PS. Just saw the s/i/a in your name and just… 👏👏👏 10/10 humor. Well done.
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We're now up again.
Render experienced issues with Redis & PostgreSQL requiring sequential recovery, but our instances are now back online with services operating normally again.
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