polarsource/polar
Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 126 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #38 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an open source billing platform that handles payments, subscriptions, and digital product monetization for developers.
- Eliminates billing infrastructure complexity by acting as the merchant of record, managing taxes, receipts, and customer accounts.
- Use for quickly launching SaaS or digital product sales with integrated subscription and usage-based billing.
- Use for integrating payment and subscription management into developer tools or platforms using Python and JavaScript SDKs.
- Use for managing multi-channel digital product access like GitHub repos, Discord support, and license keys with a unified API.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Focus on building your passion, while we focus on the infrastructure to get you paid.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
845+91
Open issues
139+2
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 192.3K | +5.2K | 75 | — |
| zed-industries/zed | 94.7K | +2.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| google/skills | 23.8K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 99.4K | +1.8K | 75 | 19 days ago |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | 7 days ago |
| polarsource/polar | 10.5K | — | 65 | 7 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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