Introducing Rewards 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. How? Empowering maintainers vs. steamrolling them Your scarcest resources as an open source maintainer is time & capital. Bounties have historically
New funding page, method & a better backer experience Excited to share another changelog post today of the efforts we’ve shipped over the last two weeks. Focusing on removing friction for backers to fund even more towards your impactful open source efforts. Let’s dig into it. New funding page We redesigned the funding page from the ground
Funding goals, reward contributors (v1), backer dashboard & API Our team is growing and new features, enhancements and bug fixes are shipped daily. Since Polar is open source anyone can see, contribute and follow along our daily progress & backlog, but... It's a bit verbose :-) So we'll start keeping a changelog to highlight some of the gems. Let's dive
Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding Today, we’re thrilled to share our v1.0 goals with Polar and announce our $1.8M pre-seed round to help us pursue our mission of expanding the open source economy. Open source is the greatest lever ever for human innovation. Powering all of the products and services that we
