keygate
Open source license server for selling your software
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Keygate is an open source license server you host yourself. Issue license keys, sell trials and subscriptions through your own Stripe, ship signed updates to Tauri, Sparkle and Velopack apps, and let customers manage seats and devices in a portal.
PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 2 views
Niche: certificate and license management software · 58 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- SaaS
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial Self-hosted licensing and update infrastructure requires secure cryptographic signing, robust license verification schemas, multi-framework update server specs (Sparkle, Squirrel, Velopack), and tamper-resistant client verification.
What it would actually take: Requires a secure backend (Go/Rust/Node) implementing public-key cryptography (Ed25519) for signing license tokens and update manifests compatible with Sparkle (macOS), Squirrel/Velopack (Windows), and Tauri. Building it safely requires software distribution security expertise to prevent bypasses and reliable update delivery infrastructure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 182 days after the earliest competitor.
- MorphGate · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Open-source API Key server written in Go by Ory · hn · 2026-06-11 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- ASL Keycloak Console · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- skgate · github · 2026-10-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Sorted Keys · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- KeyBid · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Foliox License · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- pwfauth-resp-python-client · github · 2026-10-18 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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