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

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  • Video-Hub-App

    Official repository for Video Hub App

    • My personal model for my commercial software: charityware - require a payment but made most proceeds go to my favorite (cost-effective) charity.

    I'm getting about 100 purchases ($500/month, donating $350 of that) with my Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - which is also open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

    I wrote about charityware a few years ago: https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro...

  • example-electron-license-activation

    An example of how to implement software licensing and device activation in an Electron application

    • have you checked https://keygen.sh/, yoyll get ideas there

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