Birk Jernström

Polar - An open source monetization platform for developers

An open source alternative to Lemon Squeezy with better pricing. Built for developers to offer crowdfunding, memberships, digital products and SaaS within minutes. Stay focused on shipping your passion - leave upsales, billing and international taxes to us.

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Muhammad Salman
Wow its a great idea for opensource developers to get paid. appreciate the work.
Birk Jernström
@muhammad_salman39 Thank you Muhammad!
Ali Eskandari
Know many devs who struggle with monetising their coding and projects, this gonna make it super easy for them to set up payment process for their contributions. I'll tell my friend to check this out. Congrats on the launch 🤠
Birk Jernström
@ali_eskandari Thank you Ali! Yes, unfortunately too many to count. It's definitely a really hard problem, but my hypothesis is that experimentation + gradual expansion of monetization efforts is key. So with Polar, I hope we can build the platform that makes it easy to experiment and add funding + monetization layers over time as you grow. Tell your friends to join our Discord. I'd love to chat with them and help them with their experimentation. It's the best way for us to learn too on what our platform should help automate.
Pontus Abrahamsson
Polar is an amazing product and truly helps the open-source community! Thank you for building this 🖤
Birk Jernström
@pontusab Honoured to soon be a helpful part of v1.run 🖤🖤🖤
Omar McPizza 🍕
Have followed @birk and the team for almost a year now Polar is an epic way to fund OS projects - making OS more sustainable super happy to be a supporter 👏
Birk Jernström
@mcpizza0 Thank you Omar - it means a ton! Really grateful to you and your contributions to OSS & COSS - creating a Discord forum for founders that I'm thrilled to be a part of.
David Fernández
As a developer, I really appreciate a product like this. Thank you very much for making it real ❤️ Congratulations on the launch, I wish this project all the best
Birk Jernström
@dfodev Glad to hear that David! Would love to see you join our Discord and chat about how we can help you monetize. + Get feedback along the way of the things we can improve for you.
BekahHW
Creating a more sustainable open source ecosystem is important work. Kudos to the Polar team on your launch.
Birk Jernström
@bekahhw Thank you Bekah and couldn't agree more so thank you for everything you're doing over at OpenSauced ♥️
Ellie Huxtable
This is so exciting! I love what you've been building and it keeps getting better - super important work 👏
Birk Jernström
Thank you @ellie_huxtable! That means a ton coming from you. Absolutely love Atuin and what you're building - hoping we can play a small part in the Atuin success one day ♥️
Richard Song
Kudos to the entire Polar team on this fantastic launch! The built-in product and subscription benefits are a game-changer for developers. @birk, are there any plans to introduce analytics tools to help developers track their revenue and engagement metrics more effectively?
François Voron
@birk @renchu_song Hey, software engineer at Polar here 👋 We already have a metrics dashboard like this ➡️ Glad to have feedback about how to improve it and make it more useful for our users 🙂
Mr. Ånand
Congrats on the launch🎉 Looking forward to impact Polar will create for OS community. I'm going to suggest Polar to one of the founder building in opensource, right away :)
Birk Jernström
@astrodevil That's awesome. Would love to help support however we can. Join our Discord and we can help them get launched + monetize and iterate based on their feedback and needs. https://dub.sh/polar-discord
Rajiv Ayyangar
Oooh interesting. cc @steveb This feels huge for the indie builder community! 🙌
steve beyatte
@rajiv_ayyangar agreed, very cool!