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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon polarsource

🎯 North Star: All-in-one funding & monetization platform

Open birkjernstrom opened this issue 2 months ago • 0 comments

Polar North Star v1.0

  • 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.

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Product

  • REST API & SDK. Our core product supporting all channels & integrations + future white labeling (long-term)
    • REST API (https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3237). We already have an API, but want to improve it further.
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2642
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2641
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3245
  • 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.
      • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3246
  • 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
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3248 (redirect)
    • Embeddable checkout (overlay) on your site/service
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3247. Offer developers to specify Polar developers/initiatives to automatically donate x% to.
  • Funding/Monetization Mechanisms
    • ✅ Donations
    • ✅ Issue Funding & Rewards
    • ✅ Subscriptions
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/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)
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2636
    • License keys
    • Private packages
    • Custom agreements & SLAs

Misc

  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2647
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/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 v0.8: Standalone Integrations & Hosted Downloads

Revamped API & SDKs for seamless standalone integrations. Expand with products & hosted downloads and more intuitive dashboard. Offer benefits/products with 1% OSS Program using an epic starter kit to get going in minutes.

Checkout issues with the milestone for an up-to-date list. Just capturing the main building blocks here

  • API v2
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3237
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2642
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2641
    • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3245
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3246
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3244
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3247
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/3248
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2638
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2636
  • https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/2647

birkjernstrom avatar May 03 '24 09:05 birkjernstrom