# Polar.sh - Senior Frontend Engineer job posting working on OSS for funding OSS

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271>\
**Category:** 📌 Opportunity Board\
**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271 "2023-05-19T16:54:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271/1 "2023-05-19T16:54:56Z")

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Looks interesting.

> **[Polar – Careers](https://polar.sh/careers)**
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> Polar gives open source maintainers a better and funded backlog based on what drives the most impact within their communities.

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**Author:** ![joelwass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/joelwass/32/479_2.png) [@joelwass](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/joelwass)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271/2 "2023-05-19T17:11:37Z")

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Thanks Richard! looks very interesting indeed

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**Author:** ![abitrolly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/abitrolly/32/845_2.png) [@abitrolly](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/abitrolly)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271/3 "2023-05-21T14:08:50Z")

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I am not sure what is the best place to discuss [https://polar.sh/](https://polar.sh/) platform. Looks like they are building open source bounty platform like [Bountysource](https://app.bountysource.com/?order=created_at&direction=desc) but where bounties are closed by maintainers.

As “a freelancer”, I don’t think bounties work, although for [Extract and host wheel METADATA on upload by abitrolly · Pull Request #9972 · pypi/warehouse · GitHub](https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/pull/9972) I would appreciate somebody paying maintainers to review and merge stuff without resolving to personal conflicts. In freelance, you need to reach an agreement which is a balance what is possible and what is wanted. Sometimes a beauty is unachievable, but proof needs expenses of time, which is shared between parties with the help of money.

I like the design. My next idea was for companies to be able to sponsor work post-fact, because individuals rarely have extra money to spend. In my country for sure. Like the backlog lists time, but then companies can claim things their engineers find usable. This at least somehow connects companies to people. Otherwise the companies incentive is to replace maintainers and people with their processes like [https://opensourceindex.io/](https://opensourceindex.io/)

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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271/4 "2023-05-22T19:34:13Z")

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> [@abitrolly](#):
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> Looks like they are building open source bounty platform like [Bountysource](https://app.bountysource.com/?order=created_at&direction=desc) but where bounties are closed by maintainers.

Seems like a correct appraisal to me. It’s an interesting idea. I wonder what the VC pitch was.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/sustainoss/original/1X/d7383c3b14cc24bd2aa714ed0d1b527bb4cf3671.png) [@system](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/polar-sh-senior-frontend-engineer-job-posting-working-on-oss-for-funding-oss/1271/5 "2023-06-05T19:34:40Z")

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Closed on June 5, 2023, 7:34pm UTC

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