Hi friends,
This is the fifth issue of »With Amore«, which I use to keep you in the loop about significant project milestones and updates.
In May the focus was on improving the licensing & payments system for the first couple of developers that implemented it into their apps.
Amore Licensing
One of the most significant changes this month is that Amore's licensing system does not require an Amore+ subscription anymore, making it absolutely free to get started.
Only pay in months you earn over $1,000. Thereafter, it's 1.5% of your total monthly tracked revenue.
App & CLI
The biggest change in the app and CLI last month was the license manager, making it possible to view and manage issued licenses for your apps. This makes it possible to see who your customers are and to help them with possible support requests. You can see all license data and can revoke licenses and device activations. Additionally, you can now issue licenses right from inside the app. Perfect for testing and giveaways.
DMGs are now created faster and more reliably and don't open a new Finder window during the creation process.
AmoreKit
It was a good month for AmoreKit. It got implemented in a couple of apps that, since then, shipped. Not only that, but it received its first open-source contribution, making it more powerful and flexible.
Thanks to a new protocol, it's now possible to bring your own token storage. Licenses now expose the product that they are valid for. Additionally, licenses include the current state of a connected subscription, making it possible to detect if a license is still valid but cancelled, for example.
Finally, AmoreKit gained a new AmoreStore library that can be used to fetch products, their prices, and checkout URLs. This makes it possible to build paywalls that use the SDK as a single source of truth.
Homebrew
Amore is now on Homebrew and can be installed via brew install --cask amore.
What's Next?
In June I plan to improve the help docs and onboarding experience to make it easier for new developers to get started.
Additionally, I am keen to look into an app directory and app landing pages. This will require some thinking and working closely with other developers, which I am looking forward to.
I would like to personally onboard more 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