Hi friends,
This is the fourth issue of »With Amore«, which I use to keep you in the loop about significant project milestones and product updates.
In March and April the focus was on the licensing & payments system, which got polished and is now publicly available. This is the biggest update since Amore was launched and marks the end of phase 2 outlined in the original essay about My Vision for macOS App Distribution.
Licensing & Payments
It was important to make the Amore licensing system approachable for indie hackers and hobbyists, which is why you can start to use the new Amore licensing system for free.
Only pay in months you earn over $1,000. Thereafter, it's 1.5% of your total monthly tracked revenue (MTR).
Amore's licensing system includes unlimited access to:
- Product checkout page
- License key generation
- Purchase/subscription success page with license key
- Email delivery of license key
- AmoreLicensing Swift SDK
- License activation and validation server
To get started, all you need to do is integrate the AmoreLicensing SDK into your app and connect your Stripe account to Amore. If you prefer to learn from a working example, I put together Pomodoro, a small SwiftUI app that shows the full Sparkle + licensing setup end-to-end.
Agent Skill
Everything you can do within the Amore app, you can do via the command line. This includes the new licensing system and product configuration.
Because this is the only way some developers interact with Amore, we created a Claude Code plugin and agent skill you can use to interact with Amore with guidance from Amore's documentation.
Built with Amore
Like last month, I want to thank early supporters and adopters of this project that helped shape Amore into the tool it is today. Here are some of the highlights of the ~50 new apps that started relying on Amore since March.
This one has gone quite viral since the end of March. You may have already heard about it. Tonino, the developer, describes his app as »Slap your MacBook. It screams back. That's it. That's the app.«
It's a fun little app that already got more than 90k downloads.
One of those apps you should install on every new Mac. It adds native support for Markdown previews to CMD + SPACE and includes a beautiful Markdown document reader. It's free and open-source. Go get it.
Your Mac has more open ports than you think, and most apps never close the ones they used. Doorry lives in the menu bar and shows what's actually listening, with a kill button that works.
An AI-native macOS database client for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB & Convex. AI does the querying, you explore your data.
Keep your Mac from falling asleep with one click! Stay green in all your messengers.
This is a smaller project from my friend Matt. Peek lets you monitor your OpenAI API spending right in the menu bar, with a per-project breakdown in the dropdown. No browser tab, no dashboard – just the number you need.
What's Next?
As the work on the licensing system is complete, I will focus on documentation and help articles to make it easier for new developers to get started.
Because Amore now hosts over 100 apps, I was wondering if it could be interesting to have an opt-in app store-like directory of apps.
You choose some screenshots and a description and have a landing page you can share. It would include a download and optional payment link.
Especially useful for small apps you would rather not build a website for.
I would like to personally onboard the first developers to AmoreLicensing. If you consider Amore as your licensing system, reply to this email to get in touch. I would love to talk to you.
xoxo
Lucas