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GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform

by zegl on 2/15/24, 1:15 PM with 40 comments

• by birk on 2/15/24, 1:32 PM

  Hey 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-...

• by hobofan on 2/15/24, 2:29 PM

  Previous discussion when they launched 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722702

• by SushiHippie on 2/15/24, 3:22 PM

  (kind of offtopic)

  I see these tutorial videos where it zooms in out to the cursor relatively often and I find them really dizzying/distracting, am I alone with that or what do others think about this?

• by awesomekling on 2/15/24, 4:44 PM

  That's great! We've been using Polar for funding GitHub issues in the SerenityOS & Ladybird projects for a couple months now, and it always makes me super happy when I see someone collect a reward!

  Also, as someone who has navigated the "how to pay taxes as a crowd-funded OSS developer" swamp myself, I'm super happy to see Polar take on the task of becoming a Merchant of Record and abstracting away much of the complexity for all developers. :)

• by MapleWalnut on 2/15/24, 2:44 PM

  I 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.

• by hipadev23 on 2/15/24, 3:47 PM

  Polar is Onlyfans for devs?

• by omoikane on 2/15/24, 6:49 PM

  There were many negative news about another funding platform that basically took the money and ran away[1]. I am curious how Polar would be able to avoid that fate.

  [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=BountySource

• by KomoD on 2/15/24, 3:16 PM

  I'm curious what the main differences are compared to all the other platforms

• by pointlessone on 2/15/24, 9:22 PM

  One downside is that they operate only in a few countries. Wealthy countries, too. So like GitHub sponsors it’s available in countries that need it least.

• by rasso on 2/15/24, 8:50 PM

  How can I create a polar account for a GitHub org instead of only a single user?

• by hwbunny on 2/15/24, 10:45 PM

  Still too many jumps to funnel money to the devs. Github needs to be shaken up.

• by Alifatisk on 2/15/24, 2:19 PM

  Congratulations!