Birk Jernström

Thrilled to announce our $10M Seed led by @Accel today, with continued support from @AbstractVC & @MischiefVC, and incredible angels. Join us and let's build the future of billing for developers to empower the next generation of software 🚀

Which language do you prefer to code in with agents?

@samlambert Makes me happy to hear solid engineering posts getting traction in the day and age of slop canons and zero code reviews.

it’s wild how much engagement our sharding blog post got. it must have been a slow news day.

@jmsbaduor @pqoqubbw Definitely come to Stockholm first. Would love to host you. We take design seriously here so a ton of great design engineering led teams around.

@pqoqubbw @birk ✨

I want to hang out with design teams in Europe. Visit their office, work for a day and learn from how they operate. Any ideas who I should connect with?

@xn1cklas Yes, and in batches. Raised our $10m Seed about a year ago, but recently got a surge in "Congrats on the fundraise!" paired with "We can help with sourcing open source developers looking for better funding and monetization tools"... 🤦🏼‍♂️we pivoted from that 24 months ago.

@birk email and linkedin have rendered unusable once someone read you raised a round

Getting so much spam calls & AI slop emails/DMs lately, it’s absolutely infuriating, and a guaranteed way of making me principally against working with these companies.

@mitsuhiko Agree. All these founders focused on $ boasting vs building something they truly care about, is overall tiring and unfortunately rewarded in the current cycle.

@birk I’m infuriated that the Polsia guy is getting away with this shit.

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@indiciaosint @jrfarr @jeff_weinstein @stripesupport @polar_sh I’m afraid OSINT is not something we can support in our AUP at this stage, but hope your situation gets resolved.

@jrfarr @jeff_weinstein @stripesupport Hopefully looking to transition to @polar_sh

Our @stripe account just got closed for high risk of disputes. We've transacted thousands of dollars in our first few months of business, successfully identified and refunded several payments that had a potential for fraud, and only have ever had three disputes.

@Ahmkwj @polar_sh We do: polar.sh/docs/features/…

@birk @polar_sh I didn’t, but you guys really need to allow us to add our own policies that customers must accept before making a purchase.

If you considered @polar_sh, but opted for another MoR/billing/payment solutions recently, why? What did we miss?

@pariscestchiant @fvoron @supabase @polar_sh Give @fvoron your address when you chat and we'll be sure to send you one 🤓 Re: T-shirt choice. Hard not to love the matrix cube, but our branding is black/gray too so can't go wrong either way.

@birk @fvoron @supabase @polar_sh ohh what a cool cap!! it’d be the perfect pairing indeed would absolutely love to chat as well :) love @polar_sh! sending you a DM @fvoron! all that’s left to do is pick out the right @supabase shirt :’)

accidentally attended a zoom interview with a @supabase t-shirt, and got rejected almost instantly after because "that kind of technological bias makes me seem technically weak" my bad chat 👍

@sergiukazak @polar_sh Hehe no. Tweaking our markup a bit for SEO so this should have been a hiccup.

Is this an easter egg? @polar_sh

@nichochar Voice prompt during or you’re ngmi

how long after sex is it appropriate to open claude?

@jamesacowling @lennysan Selfie

@lennysan Founders will always tell you they're happy and excited, that's part of their job

Founders are the happiest people in tech

@fvoron @pariscestchiant @supabase @polar_sh Would love to chat. We can send a @polar_sh cap that goes great with the @supabase t-shirt - they’re like wine and cheese together

@pariscestchiant @supabase wtf? We're hiring at @polar_sh (remote EU team, Next.js / FastAPI stack) — if you want to have a chat, DMs open! Bonus points if you wear the @supabase t-shirt 😄

Number of seats at @polar_sh have an exponential growth! The feature has been behind a feature flag since the beginning. Now, it's mature enough to release it to everyone 🚀

1) Should never be the case. We had a bad incident last month indeed, but making a lot of investments to prevent similar ones in the future since resilience is #1 priority. 2) We don’t make any money on those and agree. Aim to ship some big things that will allow us to mitigate and slice them.

@birk @polar_sh I am a current user but few reasons if I will move will be * extended downtime, Polar had few last month. * Fee, I am okay with payment processing fee but then there are payout fees, international fees and currency conversions fee. All these adds up, there are options in market

@alaymanguy @polar_sh Have you seen our plans? If you’re selling than quickly our paid plans pay for themselves and offers down to 3.4% for payments, billing and MoR built-in.

@birk @polar_sh mainly because of this

@terzi_federico @polar_sh I hear you. We don’t make money on those, and will do orchestration and new payout options which will allow us to get rid of them.

@birk @polar_sh 70% of my revenue comes from outside of the US + I'm based in Sweden. Between international payment fees and payout fees Paddle ends up being far cheaper, even with the discounted startup plan

We have integrations with both, and lot of our customers build their own form of PPP that’s more bespoke. For transparency, I’d always rather partner with integrations on these vs build it ourselves. We have so much room for innovation in billing and helping with usage based billing. By going wide an integration native affiliate and other adjacent services, I think we spread ourselves thin and create something meh, versus going deep in our domain and partnering with others who do the same. That’s my 2c and reasoning behind us not having invested in these areas like LS and others.

@birk @polar_sh Affiliate and purchasing power parity billing

@eldiegod_ @polar_sh What was missing? Lot has changed since the early beta of it

@birk @polar_sh not flexible enough seat based subs, it was in beta tho