Keygen Reviews and Details

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Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Built my own license key system, now facing the pricing dilemma

  I was in the same situation, and considered https://keygen.sh, but realized implementing one myself is probably faster than trying to integrate a third-party platform. So, I ended up creating my own system, quite simple, in Node.js + MongoDB, and then I can add whatever integrations I need (currently I only needed Paddle). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: What is your profitable one-person-SaaS?

  I run https://keygen.sh. I don't share revenue figures anymore, but it's very profitable these days. I'm still (mostly) solo on it (I currently have a couple firms/consultants helping me push a handful of projects forward right now), but I'm evaluating this year whether or not I want to continue going solo; lots of work to do, and I can only do so much. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ask HN: Alternatives to Gumroad for "Software Licenses"?

  Long term HN user @ezekg also runs this https://keygen.sh/ if that might suit your needs (i.e. If you want to separate out licensing logic from the payment logic). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

  Keygen | Front-end Engineer | Full- or part-time | Remote (US only) | https://keygen.sh Keygen is an open, source-available software licensing and distribution API built and run by myself. I'm a bit stretched thin in terms of front-end and support. I have a big front-end redesign code-named Portal on the roadmap that I haven't been able to make much progress on over the last couple years. I'm looking for somebody... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?

  Absolutely lovely website you have at https://keygen.sh/ Did you write that as well or outsource it? - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Keygen: Open-Source Software Licensing

  Took me a bit to realize it's licensing as in managing enterprise license keys 'C1B6DE-39A6E3...', not licensing as in MIT/GPL/etc. https://keygen.sh/ Does anyone know a minimal, alternative licensing solution appropriate for a tiny startup? One where the license key is the only form of user authentication. Is there a cheap service available? Or is it easy to roll a custom solution. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

  I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

  I run https://keygen.sh by myself. I built it about 7 years ago and started running it on the side. I went full-time on it in 2020 when it got too big to run on the side. As for trends -- the market is a bit slower these days due to the current economic environment. I've noticed smaller businesses have had a tougher time buying (and staying on), while enterprises have had an uptick. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2023)

  Working on adding “environments” to my business’ API (https://keygen.sh). I’ve gone over 6 years without offering a “sandbox” environment to customers, so I’m excited to finally be working on this one. It’s been quite complex implementatiom-wise, and has touched a lot of surface area, since I want it to support multiple named environments (e.g. staging, dev, one-offs isolated test envs for CI/CD). But it’ll be... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (52/2022)!

  I’m currently developing a commercial product with Rust and I was wondering what the best way to distribute and sell licenses for it is. Should I use a third party like keygen or is there an easy way I could get started on implementing my own. I’m out of my depth when it comes to software licensing so I figure I should ask before assuming it’s a task I can take on myself. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What's a good business model for selling standalone software

  Have you checked https://keygen.sh/, yoyll get ideas there. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Software Licensing Management

  Some sort of customer portal (or spreadsheet), where the customer can add, remove licences. After payment/confirmation you simply generate a json and encrypt with an async key. In your soft you read that as config file input, that will limit how many users can be created etc. keygen.sh or any other tool might also do it. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Self-hosted alternative for Keygen, cryptolens

  So far I have discovered two paid solutions for software licensing - https://keygen.sh and http://cryptolens.io. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Show HN: I made CSS Scan 3.0 – The fastest and easiest way to check and copy CSS

  Https://keygen.sh/ not op, just was toying with it and was happy with outcome, not affiliated or anything, was just good experience to work with, maybe will help you. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Anyone is using https://keygen.sh for license management ?

  We're developing a software for Kubernetes cluster management, and we're offering an enterprise version of it, we were thinking of using https://keygen.sh for license management. Have you used keygen before and recommend it ? Source: almost 3 years ago

• Syntax Highlighting on the Web

  I use Torchlight (https://torchlight.dev) for syntax highlighting on a static site (https://keygen.sh) and it’s been great. I use Torchlight’s CLI to precompile the code snippets during the build step. Much better than highlighting client-side with JS. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Rails + stripe gem - should I make it commercial?

  This is a great idea. I agree that Stripe's API has gotten very complex over the last few years. If you do move forward with the idea, I'd love to help you license and distribute the gem. I run a software licensing API that may be a good fit here. Currently working on making private gems super easy to distribute. Source: about 3 years ago

• Gabe Newell’s Problem Isn’t With NFTs Or Metaverse, But The ‘Bad Actors’ Behind Them

  Off-the-shelf solutions basically already exist for proving digital ownership as long as you're willing to have a centralised authority. If you're a developer selling games, then congratulations, you're your own centralised authority. Source: about 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

  1. Yes, I’ve been working on generalizing the Lunar specific code for open sourcing it next month. Still WIP because I’m still getting busy with new monitor edge cases. Last month I’ve also found out about Keygen (https://keygen.sh/) which has a really nice offering, and I would have probably chosen it instead of building my own solution if I’d known about it. I’m concerned about uptime with my own solution, I... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Hiding My code

  Do you mean implementing a licence / serial key? Have the user input email and key and then save this to a file that you will read and verify in your code. When someone buys your software you generate a key for them. Ideally, you want to use something like keygen.sh, but you can make your own keygen. For example, using hash(email) then changing positions in the result (e.g. hash[4] = chr(ord(hash[4] ) - n) and... Source: over 3 years ago

• Build your own concurrency control in Sidekiq

  p.s. Looking at my real non-tweet-sized implementation — it's pretty crazy how similar our implementations are! If you ever want to guest post on my company's blog, I'd love to have you on. Source: over 3 years ago