Focus on building your passion. We'll focus on the infrastructure to get you paid. From first donation to IPO.
- All-in-one funding & monetization (soon) platform for open source- and indie developers.
- Build your own audience with Polar Newsletters/Posts
- 1% OSS Program - setup automatic rewards to upstream contributors/dependencies (soon)
- We're the merchant of record handling the...
- ...boilerplate (billing, receipts, customer accounts etc)
- ...headaches (sales tax, VAT)
| Developer/Initiative | How they're using Polar | |
|---|---|---|
| SerenityOS & Ladybird | Uses issue funding & rewarding contributors 100% | |
| tRPC | All their issues are fundable with contributors getting 70% | |
| Bela Bohlender | Blogging (incl. premium posts for members) and sponsorship | |
| Your Next Store | Selling access via their website to private GitHub repo of their Next.js storefront | |
| Biome | Uses issue funding & rewarding contributors 70% | |
| Strawberry GraphQL | Membership benefits, newsletter & sponsorship + Discord invites | |
| David Hewitt | Blogging (incl. premium posts for members) and sponsorship | |
| Open Status | Funding towards their issues/backlog | |
| Isaac Harris-Holt | Blogging (incl. premium posts for members) and sponsorship |
... and thousands more. Join us!
- No fixed, monthly, costs
- 5% + payment & payout fees
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🐛 Found a bug? Submit it here.
🔓 Found a security vulnerability? We greatly appreciate responsible and private disclosures to security@polar.sh. See Security
You can integrate Polar on your docs, sites or services using our Public API, Webhook API, and/or our Polar JS SDK (Beta)
You can develop on Polar in GitHub Codespaces. The environment is pre-configured to contain (most) of the tools that you'll need, and will help you to configure the integration between Polar and GitHub (see .devcontainer/README). Using an instance with at least 4 cores is recommended.
You can also develop on Polar locally on your computer, which is the recommended way of working if you want to get into the deep of how Polar works. Documentation on how to setup a development environment is incoming. Until then, if you're feeling adventurous checkout our repository structure below and clients/README and server/README in particular.
- server – Python / FastAPI / Arq / SQLAlchemy (PostgreSQL) / Redis
- clients – Turborepo
- web (Dashboard) – NextJS (TypeScript)
- polarkit - Shared React components
@polar-sh/sdk- Polar JS SDK@polar-sh/astro- Polar Astro SDK- next-js-example - NextJS App example app powered by
@polar-sh/sdk - astro-example - Astro Example app powered by
@polar-sh/astro
pyproject.toml friends: FastAPI, Pydantic, Arq, SQLAlchemy, Githubkit, sse-starlette, Uvicorn, httpx-oauth, jinja, blinker, pyjwt, Sentry + more
package.json friends: Next.js, TanStack Query, tailwindcss, zustand, openapi-typescript-codegen, axios, radix-ui, cmdk, framer-motion + more
If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in Polar, we encourage you to responsibly disclose this and not open a public issue. We will investigate all legitimate reports and greatly appreciate your help. Email security@polar.sh to disclose any security vulnerabilities.
Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.