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by birk 3y ago
Really liked the blog and this article too https://raphael.lullis.net/can-foss-eat-the-world/ Lot of overlap :-) Would be great to connect. Just hired for the open role we had, but we’ll grow more. You can reach me at
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by birk 3y ago
Yes, absolutely. Polar is built with Stripe today and will continue to be – leveraging Stripe Tax and additional offerings they have as we scale to build compliant & great user experiences at the same time.
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by birk 3y ago
Yes, as we expand into services that will be key. Working with tax lawyers both in the US & EU along with Stripe to make sure we make it easier for maintainers than what it is currently via other platforms.
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by birk 3y ago
> will have to experiment with different approaches to getting funded on a regular basis and come up with their own mix of solutions Couldn't agree more. Sponsoring issues/features is our 1st offering with Polar, but our goal w
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by birk 3y ago
Polar could certainly be abused that way, but I think it's a theoretical problem more than a realistic one. Open source operates in a marketplace today (just not an economic one) so market dynamics would flush this out imo. Intentional
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by birk 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is the default by GitHub and their OAuth prompt and nothing we can change. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117 Most of our API integration is purely about synchronising
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by birk 3y ago
Big fan of what you're building with Ringer. Would love to chat more if you're interested. You can reach me at birk [at] polar.sh
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by birk 3y ago
Fantastic questions & feedback – thank you @bogwog! 1. Yes they can, but they remain anonymous and private only for the maintainer to see and take action on. Currently, we don't have automation for explicit rejection/approval,
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by birk 3y ago
Great feedback, I really appreciate it! Will definitely fix
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by birk 3y ago
That would be me :-) My name is Birk Jernström (@birk on Twitter). Been coding since I was 10y. Co-founded an e-commerce platform called Tictail back in 2011 which was acquired by Shopify in 2018. Worked there for 3y as Director of Product
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by birk 3y ago
That's awesome and thanks for sharing @jph! I'd love to hear your feedback and how we can make Polar better for you. I'm always available to chat. @birk (twitter), birk [at] polar.sh or on our Discord.
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by birk 3y ago
Sorry about that, but happy to clarify anything. You can pledge behind any open source issue that's on GitHub today. Just simply need to replace github.com in the URL with polar.sh or goto polar.new and drop the link. We'll then r
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by birk 3y ago
Hey, Birk here (founder of Polar). Thank you so much @patrick91 for sharing our post here and thank you @mfts0 for the kind words. Completely agree. I believe open source – as one of the largest and most important ecosystems in the world –
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by birk 3y ago
Great article! I started https://polar.sh to help maintainers get more funding + insights about their customers & their needs. Long-term building tooling for managing all up sold services and customer management. I definitel
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by birk 4y ago
Polar | Remote (Europe) | Founding team | Frontend Engineer | Backend Engineer | Full-time Let’s fix open source funding and build delightful and powerful tools for open source maintainers to build organic businesses around their projects.
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Detect and highlight your heart-rate using just a webcam(thechangelog.com)
2 points by birk 13y ago|0 comments
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Spotify releases "Luigi" - Python module for complex batch jobs(github.com)
2 points by birk 14y ago|0 comments