🎯 North Star: All-in-one funding & monetization platform
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Polar North Star
- 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
- ✅ GitHub. Embeds + funding.yaml support linking too 👇🏼
- ✅ Polar page. Starting point before expanding 👇🏼
- 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 don’t need to manage VAT/Sales Tax or do Auth/Order/Receipt management. Just integrate “Polar Login” or license validation. Customers have access to their orders, receipts etc via our customer portal.
- Checkout
- Funding/Monetization Mechanisms
- ✅ Donations
- ✅ Issue Funding & Rewards
- ✅ Subscriptions
- #2638 (In Progress)
- Invoicing & Custom Agreements
- Built-in product & subscription benefits
- ✅ Early/premium newsletter access
- ✅ Discord
- ✅ Newsletter ads (integrate in README/sites too)
- ✅ 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 v1.0: Core foundations
Checkout issues with the milestone for an up-to-date list. Just capturing the main building blocks here