Issue Funding & Rewards
A new way to crowdfund your backlog of GitHub issues
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Seamlessly badge issues
Promote funding on your GitHub issues without any manual overhead
- Customize the Embed
- Set optional funding goal
- Target issues using the Polar label
- Deploy the embed on issues automatically
Contributor Rewards
Reward contributors who help you fix your GitHub issues
- Setup rewards for contributors
- Adjust individual rewards before transferring funds
- Boost rewards by funding the issue yourself
Crowdfunded Backlog
Automatically synced with your GitHub issues
- A dashboard overview of your funded issues
- Promote your funded issues on the Public Page
Rewarding contributors has never been easier
01
Mark as Completed
As soon as the issue is fixed, mark it as completed to prepare transfer of funds.
02
Confirm Rewards
Confirm rewards for the contributors who helped you fix the issue.
03
Get Paid
The funded amount is paid out & the contributors gets their reward.
From first donation to IPO
Polar offers features to scale with your needs.
Products & Subscriptions
Start offering developer first products and services in minutes - paid once, monthly or annually.
Supporter
Access to my weekly newsletter, my private GitHub repository & invite to my Discord server.
Issue Funding & Rewards
Crowdfunded backlog or community bounties with seamless support to split funds with contributors.
Donations
Get appreciation from your community for a great newsletter, release or ongoing development.
Custom Integrations & SaaS
Use our API & SDK to integrate Polar across your docs, sites, apps or services.
Powerful & built-in benefits
We're building common developer upsells so you don't have to.
Private GitHub Repositories
Automate access to an unlimited amount of private GitHub repositories.
File Downloads
From e-books, source code to executibles - any file is supported up to 10GB/each.
Free & Premium Newsletters
Write a free, premium or early access newsletter in GitHub flavoured markdown.
Discord Invites & Roles
Give customers exclusive access or premium appearances and permissions.
Sponsor Promotion
Automate README.md logotypes and offer newsletter sponsorship.
Custom Benefit
Create your own and share secret notes, e.g Cal.com link to book consultation.
License keys, private packages & more to come
Supporting all use cases
From sustainable open source, sponsorware to full-fledged SaaS.
Increase sales, not overhead
Polar handles VAT, sales tax and billing so you don't have to.
Sales Metrics
Professional funding, sales and subscription metrics. Your dashboard can be plotted down to each hour - let's aim high, together.
Merchant of Record
No more VAT headache - we handle the necessary taxes for you.
Payouts
Withdraw your earnings with ease. Supporting Stripe & Open Collective.
Grow community alongside transactions
Crucial for successful developer tools. So it's built-in - for free.
Polar Page
Social bio links for developers. Showcase your repos, products, subscriptions, newsletter and more.
Free & Premium Newsletters
Offer online- and email newsletters to your community - at no additional cost. Write posts in GitHub flavoured markdown. Share them with all subscribers, paid ones or as early access.
Official GitHub Option
GitHub offers first-class support for Polar Pages in FUNDING.yaml. Convert stars into community members.
Supporter
Custom experiences powered by Polar
Use our OAuth, API & Webhooks to ship custom integrations across docs, sites, apps and services.
Serving world-class developers, world-wide
I've joined Polar 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.
I just used Polar to sponsor someone to improve Polar in Ladybird Browser!
It's honestly such a comfy way to spread the love and share some of my funding with more of our developers!
It's only been two weeks but Polar has been extremely good for funding contributions for Athena Crisis.
Frictionless, fast, easy.
Amazing! Really excited to seeing how this turns out.
Polar is the cutting edge of how open source might be financed in the future.
Pricing
Transparent pricing aligned with your success.
Zero Fixed Costs
No hidden or monthly costs.
5% Revenue Share
We earn when you do.
+ Stripe & Open Collective
Transaction- and payout fees apply.
We've run out of sales pitches
For now. We ship fast and open source. So stay tuned.