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Mitchell Hashimoto joins Polar.sh as an advisor

by birk on 4/4/24, 4:52 PM with 8 comments

• by alberth on 4/5/24, 5:16 AM

  I just signed up for Polar and am confused.

  I was under the impression, maybe wrongly, that this was a kickstarter-like service but for software.

  Now after logging in, if I’m understanding correctly, it seems to be a paid newsletter platform (like Substack).

  Can someone explain.

  Because I’m very confused after signup.

• by tqi on 4/5/24, 12:11 AM

  I'll be curious to see how vertical specific platforms will compete/coexist with more general platforms like Patreon. I wonder if eventually we'll see something like The Match Group emerge...

• by gtirloni on 4/6/24, 1:22 PM

  5% (plus Stripe feeds) for the platform means it will only work for really small projects. Arguably, the majority.

• by xwowsersx on 4/4/24, 11:07 PM

  At first glance, I thought this was about polar.rs and I was quite intrigued. Either way, congrats on landing him. Mitchell is great.

• by ayewo on 4/4/24, 5:11 PM

  To the Polar.sh team, congrats on landing mitchellh as an advisor! Perhaps he might go on to expand his involvement with Polar, similar to how Brian Acton increased his involvement with Signal Foundation after a hefty donation? Time will tell.

  It's funny because I just learned of Polar yesterday and would be curious to hear from the Polar founders how they differ significantly from Algora [1] apart from the obvious difference in take rate.

  1: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/198w0wq/algora_...