Title: I have some side projects that I&#x27;d like to sell as commercial applications. These don&#x27;t really provide any &quot;ongoing service&quot;, so I&#x27;d feel bad with asking for a subscription fee, meaning ideally a small flat fee per license should suffice.<p>How does one achieve this in a sane, reasonable way in 2022? I don&#x27;t want to ship an annoying &quot;activator&quot; program like something from Autodesk or Adobe, which goes against the idea of my simpler applications.<p>On the other side of the spectrum I feel like I could just provide a link to a zip on an S3 on the payment confirmation email, but that is easily shareable and looks unprofessional.<p>Is there something that can be done with encryption&#x2F;activation keys that would not require the program to phone home to validate itself every time its launched?<p>How do you people earn money from your desktop applications?
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