Polar
How vibe coders and indie builders use Polar: 35 projects built with it and 1 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
35
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
1
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Stripe 10
- Vercel 8
- Next.js 8
- Supabase 7
- Paddle 5
- Claude Code 5
- Resend 4
- TypeScript 4
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Polar
- OmniNotch — Puts a multi-tool dashboard in the Mac notch with sales stats, AI usage tracking, a teleprompter, clipboard history, a file shelf, and music, weather, calendar and note widgets.“I know there are a hundred notch apps already. Here's why I built another one.”
- Delulu — Scores how optimistic a personal goal's plan is by calculating the concrete numbers it requires.“I built a site that tells you how delusional your goal is, with a receipt of the actual math (no signup, no subscription)”
- Here's everything that goes… — Provides a reusable setup of build, signing, licensing, payments, email, and website tooling around a paid Mac app.“Here's everything that goes into a paid Mac app (besides the app itself)”
- I made a Boilerplate for… — Provides a starter codebase for building and selling macOS apps.“I made a Boilerplate for developing and selling macOS apps”
- wallmrr — Displays live revenue, traffic and social mention metrics from Stripe, Polar, RevenueCat and other sources on a TV or spare screen.“I built an revenue/data dashboard for TVs because I was sick of obsessively checking Stripe on my phone”
- Sidebox — Gathers a person's apps, projects, links, accounts and related files into one workspace.“I'm building an All-in-one Workspace for your apps/projects”
- bury.lol — Creates permanent pixel-art graves for personal or internet things that ended, where visitors can pay respects or leave paid candles.“I built a graveyard for the internet — a permanent pixel-art grave for anything that died. Digging is free until midnight tonight”
- RIP MY BUILD — Hosts public memorial pages for abandoned side projects, with obituaries, original project links, and pointers to the founder's current business.“I built a cemetery where failed side projects introduce what their founders built next”
- ShipKit — Provides a pre-built SaaS starter monorepo with auth, payments, admin, email and a setup CLI.“ShipKit - Bun + Elysia + Next.js 16 SaaS boilerplate, 11 apps shipped on it”
- Sleek Analytics — Provides cookieless web analytics that connects traffic sources to payment provider revenue data.“Finally, analytics that show which traffic actually makes you money”
- PayGlue — Connects non-Stripe payment providers to Ghost CMS to grant and revoke member access automatically.“I built middleware that connects Ghost CMS to any payment provider. Open beta went live today, first customer already in.”
- Kobbe — Tracks website traffic, pages, referrers, conversions and revenue attribution with a lightweight script and dashboard.“I built a lighter web analytics tool with revenue tracking”
- MAC+ — Renders animated live wallpapers, customizable folder icons, and desktop widgets on macOS using Metal.“After months of building MAC+ , I just hit my first 10 paid users. Here’s what the app does.”
- Retrievr — Creates and sends GST-compliant invoices with automatic CGST/SGST/IGST tax split, recurring schedules, and payment reminders.“Built a simple invoicing tool for freelancers/consultants that costs less than a Starbucks Coffee”
- I couldn't justify 690 USD a… — Ties website traffic and signups to payments and search data so you can see which sources bring in paying customers.“I couldn't justify 690 USD a year for revenue analytics, so I built my own”
Latest add-ons built for Polar
- sled — Tracks affiliate clicks and orders for Polar.sh stores and computes recurring commissions.“the cheapest affiliate tool is 49 usd/mo and none of them support polar.sh. so i built one for 12 usd/mo”
Pitched as alternatives to Polar
- Paymug — Lets sellers sell digital products through a self-hosted checkout connected to PayPal or Stripe.“Self-hosted Lemonsqueezy / Polar”