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Payments & Billing with 6 lines of code. Open Source & Merchant of Record. We’re hiring.
github.com/polarsource
Joined February 2023
Dear builders,. Today, we're announcing Polar v1.0. An open source alternative to Lemon Squeezy with 20%+ lower fees. Designed for builders, indie hackers and open source maintainers. You push the world forward. It's time you got paid coding on your passion.
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Introducing the fastest way to sell access to a file from your command line 💫. npx checkout-link ./my-file.zip. 📦 Sell binaries, courses, zip-files - you name it.🔗 Get a shareable Checkout-URL.⏳ In under one minute.💰 Forget about VAT and Sales Tax - we take care of it
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Introducing License Keys. Making it seamless to sell premium software without the headache of managing billing, international sales tax and real-time validations yourself. One big step towards our v1.0 announcement on Product Hunt this Thursday (September 5th)
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Big news!. Introducing the fastest & simplest way to integrate payments & digital products on your site. Polar for @framer. ⚡ Setup Digital Products & Subscriptions.📦 Sell access to Digital Downloads.🤌 Insert Buy-buttons on your Canvas.🛒 Embedded Checkouts.⛱️ No code needed
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npx polar-init - with Nuxt.js support! 💫. Setup SaaS products, payment & webhook routes in a Nuxt.js project, in under 1 minute.
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Payments with @remix_run is now a breeeeeze. Have fun!
Alright, fine. Polar adapter for Remix is coming….
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Announcing — 1% OSS Program 💫 . In 2025, we're making it seamless for developers to automate splitting some of their revenue to open source dependencies. Inspired by Stripe Climate. Because we need more trees in the physical world & open source software in the binary one.
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What 3 employees can ship & accomplish since October:. - Discounts.- Checkout Sessions.- Checkout Links.- Custom Fields.- License Keys Management.- Transaction Risk Score Integration.- Customer Management.- Framer Plugin.- Raycast Extension.- Go SDK.- PHP SDK.- Zapier Integration.
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Implementing payments & order webhooks shouldn't be hard. This is all you need.
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Polar — . The only payments platform in the world that can fit 8 complete payment integrations in < 20 lines.
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Time to say Hello to all our new fans 👋🏻. We’re 3 obsessed individuals who want to simplify payments & the infrastructure for developers to get paid. We believe in open source and building in public. We’re all in this together. With love ♥️./ @birk @fvoron @emilwidlund.
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The Remix Adapter for Polar now supports any runtime, and React Router. Big up to @sergiodxa for the contribution!
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Want to integrate a Customer Portal for order & subscription management in your Next.js app?. It's now 5 lines of code.
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Polar Adapter for @astrodotbuild is now live!. Sell SaaS, Expose a Customer Portal & Handle incoming payment webhooks with a few lines of code.
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Dear builders,. Keep shipping. Create something out of nothing. Fix broken things & systems. Challenge the norm. So what if you fail?.Just checkout a new branch. Keep following your passion. Keep shipping.
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Introducing Smart Pricing w/ @paritydeals 💫. Polar is now integrated with ParityDeals to provide optimal pricing to your customers, by dynamically localizing your product pricing. 🌍 Different prices in different countries.🏷️ Powered by Discounts.✨ Auto-generated PPP rules
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Before or after? 🤓.
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Introducing Discounts! 💫. Want to offer Black Friday deals on your digital products? . Today, we're releasing a Discount API & UI for Products on Polar. 🏷️ Discount Codes.⚡ Discount Conditions.📦 All or Select Products
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Polar is coming to @raycastapp!. - See the latest orders.- See active subscriptions.- Transaction Ledger. Any features in particular you would like to see?
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We want developers to get paid. So payouts are designed to be fast using our own built-in ledger & automations. 1. No upfront reviews before starting - we do staggered reviews instead. 2. You decide when to withdraw. Not us - no fixed schedule.
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No need to think about Sales Tax & VAT with Polar. We handle it for you as the Merchant of Record. Focus on your passion, while we build infrastructure to get you paid.
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We're now live on @ProductHunt. We would be forever grateful for your upvote, support & feedback today 🙏🏼♥️.
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Introducing Polar for the Deno Runtime! 💫. Sell SaaS right on top of your @deno_land stack — Compatible with @supabase Edge Functions too!
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5,000 Followers!. Wonderful to see so many of you supporting our endeavour to build the best monetization infrastructure for developers. Do us a favor & show us all what you're building!
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We just made Polar dead simple with Sveltekit. Checkouts, Customer Portal & Webhooks — all you need for payments.
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Yes, Polar is built 100% open source:.. But more importantly, our product would not have been possible without other open source frameworks, libraries and software. That's the beauty. Open source is a virtuous cycle.
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Updated our docs on the topic of Merchant of Record (MoR). No BS or scare tactics. Just honest and transparent:. - Pro/cons vs. PSPs, e.g Stripe.- How to choose what's right for you.- Global tax compliance and our process for it.
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Checkout this clever, beautifully simple and convenient app by @mightyalex . Now you can keep tabs of your revenue from Polar directly in your macOS menu bar 🤓.
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Thanks to all 6,000 nerds out there excited about an easier way to monetize and get paid coding on their passions ❤️. But only 622 following?! Let’s fix that. Share what you’re building - we love following people who build.
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Selling SaaS should be simple. — The Polar way of reconciling a database with payments infrastructure.
Introducing Polar w/ Supabase 💫. Ready to sell SaaS with Polar on your @supabase stack?. We've created a Polar Supabase Starter repository over on GitHub which should give you an idea on how to integrate. Feel free to contribute — link in the thread below 👇
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We work in @ladybirdbrowser now 😍 What a fantastic milestone – it warms our heart that looks great in the most exciting open source browser being built today.
🔴 Ladybird browser update (January 2024). Another solid month of steady incremental progress on @ladybirdbrowser 🐞🌍. Although we didn’t have a big standout feature this time, we ended up improving all kinds of little things! 🤓.
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Closing in on 3k ⭐. Polar is the only merchant of record built 100% open source and with 20% lower fees. So developers can get paid coding on their passion.
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Today, we're incredibly excited to announce contributor rewards with Polar 🎉. You can think of it as bounties, but don't worry – it's designed for maintainers and your communities for a change.
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We're definitely in 🖤. Our team has a budget of $200/month/developer to donate, fund, subscribe or buy from open source developers.
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This year has been nothing but incredible. So many new supporters and fans. Can’t wait to show what we have in store for 2025.
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We're so excited to work with @ladybirdbrowser and help their community build the next generation browser we all deserve 😍. We're also flattered that they're so kind to put their incredible talent towards helping us look sharp too on 🤓.
We're partnering with @polar_sh to sponsor community work on @ladybirdbrowser! 🐻❄️🐞🌍. Starting today, we'll be opening up some of our GitHub issues for funding via Polar's system. The basic idea is: people who want to see an issue fixed can commit to pitching in some $. Once a.
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Our team has $200/month/engineer to spend on open source issue funding, subscriptions (and soon one-off donations, PR tipping etc). It's a sneak peak. Currently behind a feature flag - we need to build self-onboarding for teams. If you're business is interested. DM or email ♥️
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Introducing Granular Webhook-handlers! 💫. Our Polar Adapters has now been updated with optional webhook-handlers. No need for a switch-statement in the onPayload-handler. Subscribe to the events you want to handle separately. See all 16 supported handlers in the 🧵
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Next year we’ll shave that down to 1/10th of the time. Complex billing, SaaS and digital products in <60 seconds. We’re obsessed.
I was running out of my deadline and literally had only 1-2 hours to integrate a payment gateway to opensox. But I knew most gateways take much time to setup. So I went with @polar_sh. I've created and integrated payment gateway within 10 mins. It's so quick, easy and smooth. 🔥
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Welcome @mitchellh to the team! We're honoured to have you as an advisor on our mission to help developers get paid to code on their passion ♥️.
I've joined @polar_sh as an advisor! I think it benefits everyone for devs to have more options to get paid to work on their passions, to support upstreams, and for users to have more confidence/transparency in the software they're supporting/purchasing.
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Thrilled of all the support and developers joining our community over the past 48h since launch 🖤. But now to the fun part: What feedback, feature requests or issues did you run into that we can prioritize to support you? 💪🏼. Don’t hold back 🤓.
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🚢 Polar Checkout. Just shipped with a bunch of enhancements:.- Customize your branding.- Contextual product details.- Custom metadata. You can integrate it in 5 LOCs. Of course, we still handle sales taxes & VAT as the merchant of record.
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Introducing Custom Checkout Fields ✨. You may now ask your customers about additional information on Checkout, using our Custom Fields feature. - Require terms to be accepted by customers.- Allow messages to be attached with purchases. Learn more about Checkout Fields below 🧵
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Oh, one more thing. Of course we built it open source.
Big news!. Introducing the fastest & simplest way to integrate payments & digital products on your site. Polar for @framer. ⚡ Setup Digital Products & Subscriptions.📦 Sell access to Digital Downloads.🤌 Insert Buy-buttons on your Canvas.🛒 Embedded Checkouts.⛱️ No code needed
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Which pain points around billing, payments & subscriptions should we tackle in 2025?.
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We imagine a future where SaaS Entitlements are. - Plug & Play.- Leveraged by open source & community-driven.- A few lines of code to integrate.- Easy to compose, extend & manage.- All built on top of our Webhook architecture. Inspired by @passportjs' Auth Strategies
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We’re incredibly proud to be nominated to the @ProductHunt Golden Kitty Awards 2024 in category Developer Tools 💫. A vote for us would mean the world to our small team of 3 individuals. Link in 🧵.
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A new Figma Plugin launched today using Polar to take care of:.- Billing.- Sales tax & EU VAT (Merchant of Record).- License key generation & validation. So cool to see all the different use cases of Polar in the wild 😍.
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2025 Startup Stack:. 🌐 @nextjs: Framework.☁️ @vercel: Hosting.🔐 @supabase: Backend/Auth/Storage.✉️ @resend: Email.💯 @languine_ai - AI Translations.📱 @expo: Mobile.🔔 @novuhq: Notifications.💳 @polar_sh: Payments.🛠️ @triggerdotdev: Background jobs.📊 @OpenPanelDev: Analytics.
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That banner though 🔥. Fun fact: @emilwidlund built most of the new customization view on a train between Paris <> Lyon last week for our team offsite.
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You can now sell digital products & offer file downloads using Polar 🔥. We make it seamless to offer:.- Private GitHub Repo(s) access.- Discord invites.- Early or premium newsletter access.- Books, apps, zips, tarballs. We handle VAT & Sales tax.
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🚢 Sandbox environments. You can now easily create your own sandbox environments with Polar. Making it seamless to test purchases, subscriptions and integrations end-to-end.
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Black Friday: 20% lower payment fees vs. other merchant of records. For developers who want to get paid coding on their passions. Actually, sorry. That’s just our normal pricing 24/7/365.
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@rauchg ❤️🙏. We’re building it entirely open source too. You can also run:.$ npx polar-init . To bootstrap a NextJS for SaaS & digital products in minutes too 🤓.
Get paid coding on your passion. Just run `npx polar-init` and start offering subscriptions, digital products or memberships in minutes. Ship faster. Offer more powerful product benefits. Leave sales tax headaches to us.
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Our friend @IsaacHarrisHolt made an excellent demo video of Polar - check it out.
This week's video is releasing slightly early to celebrate the V1 release of @polar_sh! `. Polar is a great product and I'm ecstatic Birk and the team reached out to get me involved in this. Upvote on Product Hunt: Watch the vid:
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Shipping products is super rewarding, but it can also be taxing alone. It's why we handle international taxes, license key validation, file hosting, Discord & GitHub invite & role automations for thousands of developers. Focus on coding your passion. Leave headaches to us.
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