Polar North Star v1.0
- An all-in-one funding & monetization platform for developers to get paid coding on their passions.
- Supporting them and their upstreams from the first donation to IPO.
- No ceiling & free to cherry pick.
- We'll handle the boilerplate (billing, receipts, customer accounts) & headaches (sales tax, VAT - merchant of record) so developers can focus on building.
Effectively a better Lemon Squeezy / Paddle for open source- and indie developers - built open source.
Product
- REST API & SDK. Our core product supporting all channels & integrations + future white labeling (long-term)
- Channels
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GitHub. Embeds + funding.yaml support linking too ππΌ
- β
Polar page. Starting point before expanding ππΌ
- Starter Kits & Seamless integrations. NextJS, Nuxt, Electron, Swift.. Built for different monetization tactics, e.g courses, sponsorware, digital downloads, books etc. SDKs and starters kits to integrate Polar on your site/service.
- Polar Identity & Auth. Developers donβt need to manage VAT/Sales Tax or do Auth/Order/Receipt management. Just integrate βPolar Loginβ or license validation. Customers have access to their orders, receipts etc via our customer portal.
- Checkout
- #3248 (redirect)
- Embeddable checkout (overlay) on your site/service
- #3247. Offer developers to specify Polar developers/initiatives to automatically donate x% to.
- Funding/Monetization Mechanisms
- β
Donations
- β
Issue Funding & Rewards
- β
Subscriptions
- #2638 (In Progress)
- Invoicing & Custom Agreements
- Built-in product & subscription benefits
- β
Early/premium newsletter access
- β
Discord
- β
Newsletter ads (integrate in README/sites too)
- β
Private GitHub Repo(s)
- #2636
- License keys
- Private packages
- Custom agreements & SLAs
Misc
- #2647
- #3249. Ability to setup Polar without mapping it 1:1 with a GitHub Organization. Enabling standalone offerings & future integrations with other platforms, e.g GitLab & more.
Milestone v0.8: Standalone Integrations & Hosted Downloads
Revamped API & SDKs for seamless standalone integrations. Expand with products & hosted downloads and more intuitive dashboard. Offer benefits/products with 1% OSS Program using an epic starter kit to get going in minutes.
Checkout issues with the milestone for an up-to-date list. Just capturing the main building blocks here