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name: spending-analysis description: Analyze Pollinations revenue, pack purchases, and tier spending patterns. Query Polar for payment history and Tinybird for usage data.

Requirements

Before using this skill, ensure you have:

• curl: For API requests
• jq: brew install jq (for parsing JSON)
• sops: brew install sops (for decrypting secrets)

Must run from the pollinations repo root with access to enter.pollinations.ai/.

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Data Sources

Polar API

• Orders: Payment history for pack purchases
• Products: Tier subscriptions and pollen packs
• Customers: User payment info linked by external_id

Tinybird

• generation_event: Usage data with user_tier, total_price, user_id
• Tracks all API requests with pricing and tier info

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Quick Commands

Get Polar Access Token

Copy# From sops-encrypted secrets
export POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(sops -d enter.pollinations.ai/secrets/prod.vars.json | jq -r '.POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN')

# Or from .testingtokens (if available)
export POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(grep POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN enter.pollinations.ai/.testingtokens | cut -d= -f2)

Get Tinybird Token

Copyexport TINYBIRD_TOKEN=$(sops -d enter.pollinations.ai/secrets/prod.vars.json | jq -r '.TINYBIRD_ACCESS_TOKEN')

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Polar API Queries

List Products (Tiers & Packs)

Copycurl -sL "https://api.polar.sh/v1/products" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN" | jq '[.items[] | {name, id, recurring: .is_recurring}]'

Get Pack Purchases (Last 100)

Copy# 5 pollen pack product ID
PRODUCT_ID="bcdde7f7-129e-4ec1-abc3-d4e0c852fa68"

curl -sL "https://api.polar.sh/v1/orders?limit=100&product_id=$PRODUCT_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POLAR_ACCESS_TOKEN" | \
  jq '[.items[] | {date: .created_at[0:10], amount: (.total_amount / 100), customer: .customer.email}]'

All Pack Product IDs

Weekly Revenue from All Packs

Copy.claude/skills/spending-analysis/scripts/weekly-pack-revenue.sh

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Tinybird Queries

User Count by Tier

Copycurl -sL "https://api.europe-west2.gcp.tinybird.co/v0/sql" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TINYBIRD_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "q=SELECT argMax(user_tier, start_time) as tier, count() as users FROM generation_event WHERE start_time >= now() - INTERVAL 60 DAY AND environment = 'production' AND user_id != 'undefined' GROUP BY user_id FORMAT JSON" | \
  jq '.data | group_by(.tier) | map({tier: .[0].tier, users: length})'

Weekly Spending by Tier

Copycurl -sL "https://api.europe-west2.gcp.tinybird.co/v0/sql" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TINYBIRD_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "q=SELECT toStartOfWeek(start_time) as week, user_tier, sum(total_price) as total_spend, count() as requests FROM generation_event WHERE start_time >= now() - INTERVAL 60 DAY AND environment = 'production' GROUP BY week, user_tier ORDER BY week DESC FORMAT JSON" | jq '.data'

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Analysis Scripts

Weekly Pack Revenue

Copy.claude/skills/spending-analysis/scripts/weekly-pack-revenue.sh

Shows weekly breakdown of actual pack purchases (real revenue, not free tier usage).

Pack Purchases by Tier

Copy.claude/skills/spending-analysis/scripts/pack-purchases-by-tier.sh

Cross-references Polar pack purchasers with Tinybird tier data to show which tiers buy most pollen proportionally.

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Key Findings (Jan 2026 Analysis)

Pack Purchases by Tier (Weighted by User Count)

Key Insight: Higher tiers buy MORE pollen proportionally, not less.

Revenue Trend (9 Weeks)

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Notes

• Free tier spending in Tinybird includes daily pollen allocation - not real revenue
• Pack purchases in Polar are actual paid revenue
• Cross-reference by external_id (Polar) = user_id (Tinybird)
• Polar API returns 307 redirects - use curl -sL to follow