From 592b1e80e270471ee7b057e8888ee6fb1f3835ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keysat Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 23:36:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Reframe lede + integrate code sample around creator empowerment --- index.html | 2 +- integrate.html | 31 +++---- pricing.html | 218 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) create mode 100644 pricing.html diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 312aa86..f430d26 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
Get started · Introduction

Welcome to Keysat.

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Keysat is a self-hosted licensing service for software creators who want to be paid in Bitcoin. Buyers pay through your own BTCPay; your software verifies signed keys offline. You own the signing key, the customer list, and the payment rails.

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Keysat lets independent software creators sell their work on their own terms. You ship software — open source, closed source, free / paid versions, whatever fits — and Keysat handles the buy page, the Bitcoin payment via BTCPay, and a signed license for each buyer. How you use that license inside your software is up to you: a one-time purchase to unlock the whole app, a free + paid split with specific paid features, a tip-jar style supporter badge — all legitimate. The licensing layer is a primitive, not a script.

These docs cover both ends:

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Get started · Integrate the SDK

Integrate the SDK.

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Wire Keysat licenses into your software in under an afternoon. The verifier is pure-function, offline, and ships in five lines.

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Wire Keysat licenses into your software in under an afternoon. The verifier is pure-function, offline, and ships in five lines. What you do with the result — refuse to start without a license, unlock specific features, just show a "supporter" badge — is your call. The SDK is the primitive; the business model is yours.

Prerequisites

Before you start, you should have:

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The verifier returns a result object with the following fields:

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Pricing

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+ Keysat dogfoods its own licensing — the Keysat daemon is itself licensed by a Keysat + instance running at licensing.keysat.xyz. + The same primitive operators use to gate features in their own software gates a few + Keysat features behind paid tiers. The free tier is genuinely useful — + most hobbyist operators will never need to upgrade. +

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Creator

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21,000sats
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one-time, perpetual
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  • Up to 5 products
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  • Up to 5 policies per product
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  • Up to 5 active discount codes
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  • BTCPay payments (Bitcoin / Lightning)
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  • One-time purchases
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  • Self-host on Start9 (always)
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  • Distributed via free codes — ask
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+ Get Creator +
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Most popular
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Pro

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250,000sats
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per year
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  • Unlimited products / policies / codes
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  • Recurring subscriptions (when shipped, v0.3)
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  • Zaprite payments — accept BTC + cards (when shipped, v0.3)
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  • Multi-operator admin (when shipped)
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  • Everything in Creator
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+ Upgrade to Pro +
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Patron

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500,000sats
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per year
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  • Same features as Pro
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  • "Patron" badge in your admin UI
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  • Funds Keysat development
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  • Honest upsell — no fake feature gate
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+ Become a Patron +
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+ Note on what's gated. Today the only enforced gates are the + capacity caps — number of products, policies, and active discount codes. Pro + will gate the new payment-provider features (recurring billing, Zaprite card + payments) when those ship in v0.3. Patron is functionally identical to Pro — + its tier exists for operators who want to fund development beyond what Pro + needs to stay in the green. +
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What the caps count

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+ All caps fire at create-time only. Once you're under the cap, + you're never retroactively kicked off. A Creator-tier operator who currently + has 5 products keeps all 5 if you ever lower the caps in the future. The cap + just stops them from creating a 6th. +

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  • Products: counts every product row (active + inactive). Operators don't get to evade the cap by toggling old rows inactive.
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  • Policies per product: counts policies on a single product, regardless of public/active state.
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  • Active discount codes: counts only active=true codes. Disable old codes to free up slots without deleting them — disabled codes don't function but stay in the audit trail.
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Switching tiers

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+ Buy a higher-tier license at licensing.keysat.xyz/buy/keysat, + then activate it via StartOS → Keysat → Actions → Activate Keysat license. + The daemon picks up the new entitlements on next request — no restart needed. + The persistent banner in your admin sidebar always shows your current tier + and the next-tier CTA. +

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+ Downgrading: drop your license file (or replace with a lower + tier). Existing rows stay; new ones are subject to the new caps. No data loss. +

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Running unlicensed

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+ Keysat works without any license at all — you'll see "Unlicensed" in the + sidebar and get the same caps as a Creator-tier operator (5/5/5). The + license exists primarily so operators get a real "I bought it" experience + and so we can offer the upgrade path to Pro. Hobbyists can run Keysat + indefinitely without paying us a sat. +

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What's coming

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+ Two big v0.3 features will be Pro-only when they ship: +

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  • Recurring subscriptions — auto-renewal, customer-managed cancellation.
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  • Zaprite payments — accept Bitcoin and credit cards. Massively expands your addressable buyers.
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+ Both will gate on the recurring_billing and card_payments entitlements + respectively. Free-tier operators will see a "Pro feature" banner and a one-click + upgrade flow when they try to use these. +

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