NDNicolas Demanezinkeylight.hashnode.dev·14h ago · 4 min readHow offline license activation actually worksIf you ship a desktop app outside an app store, you eventually hit the same wall: how do you check a license when the user is on a plane, behind a corporate firewall, or just offline? Calling your ser00
NDNicolas Demanezinkeylight.hashnode.dev·15h ago · 6 min readHow to ship and sell a paid desktop app outside the app stores (2026)You built a desktop app — macOS, Windows, Linux, native or Tauri/Electron — and you want to sell it directly instead of handing 15–30% to Apple or Microsoft. Selling outside the stores means you keep 00
