
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)
May 15, 2024 · 1 hr 46 min · 102.5 MB
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Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what’s in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.
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Featuring:
- Birk Jernström – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Polar
- SerenityOS on Polar
- SerenityOS issues on Polar
- SerenityOS on GitHub
- David Hewitt on Polar
- GitHub Sponsors
- Open Collective
- Vagrant and Virtualized Environments with Mitchell Hashimoto (Changelog Interviews #72)
- The serenity of building your own OS with Andreas Kling (Changelog Interviews #554)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Polar
polar.shJoin the discussion
changelog.zulipchat.comChangelog++
changelog.comTailscale
changelog.comSentry
sentry.ioLadder Life Insurance
ladderlife.comGitHub
github.comX
x.comWebsite
adamstacoviak.comGitHub
github.comLinkedIn
linkedin.comMastodon
changelog.socialX
x.comWebsite
jerodsanto.netGitHub
github.comLinkedIn
linkedin.comMastodon
changelog.socialX
x.comSerenityOS on Polar
polar.shSerenityOS issues on Polar
polar.shSerenityOS on GitHub
github.comDavid Hewitt on Polar
polar.shGitHub Sponsors
github.comOpen Collective
opencollective.comPRs welcome!
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- 0:00Welcome to The Changelog
- 1:30Sponsor: Tailscale
- 4:34Start the show!
- 5:44Birk's backstory
- 9:20Polar's backstory
- 13:02Making money with Polar
- 23:00GitHub acquisition?
- 25:20Sponsor: Sentry
- 29:09First donation to IPO
- 31:38First appearance to IPO
- 36:31On Paddle
- 38:01Merchant of record
- 44:10How Polar makes money
- 48:15Pre-seed funding
- 55:17Convincing the angels
- 58:30Sponsor: Ladder Life Insurance
- 1:00:27Polar copycats
- 1:03:15The Shopify analogy
- 1:07:44The SerenityOS story
- 1:12:05Shared issue funding
- 1:15:47Stripe only for now
- 1:20:17Funding UI DEEP dive
- 1:31:51Birk on bug bounties
- 1:36:13First steps
- 1:41:48Wrapping up
- 1:44:13Outro (Join ++!)