SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform

[trillbilly]

@Lindon Ya for sure.

Do you have any suggestions on what you feel is a secure way to handle this, yet, painless for the end-user?

[Lindon]

@trillbilly said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

@Lindon Ya for sure.

Do you have any suggestions on what you feel is a secure way to handle this, yet, painless for the end-user?

well if I knew that I'd be very rich by now....

[Lindon]

Perhaps look at this another way.... if you cant solve the pirating problems, what other problems can you solve? Marketing? Sales(like getting more not the basket process, which we all seem to have solved pretty much already with wooCommerce etc.)., demos, videos, etc.

[trillbilly]

@Lindon I dont think anyone can solve the pirating problem 100%.

Security, Marketing assets, affiliates, resellers, promotions, installers, code signing, serial management and distribution, email marketing (campaigns, subscriber management, etc), HISE integrations.

Im working towards a complete audio plugin/product backbone that allows developers (new and old) to quickly and reliably manage the entire backend of the business (and some development tools).

Like i said, its in the beginning stages and nothing glamorous at the moment but I can make you a demo profile if youd like to check it out.

[d.healey]

@trillbilly said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

Im working towards a complete audio plugin/product backbone that allows developers (new and old) to quickly and reliably manage the entire backend of the business (and some development tools).

Sounds similar to Moonbase

[bendurso]

@d-healey said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

Sounds similar to Moonbase

The Juce module of Moonbase could work with HISE? Never heard about moonbase but looks cool.

@trillbilly said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

SoundSync is meant to put all of that in one place, while still letting you own your brand.

SoundSync looks good as well :) But in my case I already have most of these features.

[d.healey]

@bendurso said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

The Juce module of Moonbase could work with HISE?

Didn't even know about that

[Lindon]

I think thats the essential problem here... there are already players in the space, and even then, none of it looks exciting...solving the " manage the entire backend of the business" issue, isnt really an issue...."the entire backend of the business" can get resolved in several different ways, but all of it in a few months at most, whilst the biggest problems: piracy, sales and distribution are all open ended difficult to solve issues...

..if I was going to "do this", I'd start by asking:

What would be a meaningful distribution platform/brand/site and how would it be organised so a bunch of developers could on-board, sell product and get a fair shake of the "front page" stick...??

[tobbentm]

@d-healey said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

@trillbilly said in SoundSync: Reseller, Security & Serial Management Platform:

Im working towards a complete audio plugin/product backbone that allows developers (new and old) to quickly and reliably manage the entire backend of the business (and some development tools).

Sounds similar to Moonbase

Thanks for the shout-out! I'm Tobias, the founder of Moonbase.
Won't hijack this thread, welcome any competition in this space - it needs more modern options!

I believe we have 3-4 HISE users already onboarding onto Moonbase, integrating the JUCE module, but I'm not sure about the current status. It will need some changes here and there, but nothing too major I hope. I tried reaching out to @Christoph-Hart a while ago after we met in Berlin, but didn't hear back. Maybe it's time to re-visit a collab here? :)

Interfacing with resellers better sounds like a really cool approach, and something we have on the roadmap too. It gets tricky fast to get a grasp on actual cashflow and revenue sources when you have sales scattered across several channels, including your own. Happy to share any experience we have doing software sales @trillbilly !

[trillbilly]

@d-healey I'd never heard of them til I seen your post. It sounds promising.

@bendurso Integrating with HISE is definitely a priority. What types of features would you be interested in?

@Lindon I hear you brother. I think some of these things could be issues to smaller/startup developers. I'm not looking to create a marketplace in terms of just onboarding developers and selling their products for 2 main reasons. 1. Talk about a saturated market. 2. I just sold a business like this last year to further pursue other things.

@tobbentm Moonbase looks great. Yes, I've 10+ years working for and with resellers so I've got a good idea of the ins and outs of that market + a collection of contacts. I have a few thoughts on keeping things in order across the board. I would definitely love to chat. I'll send you a DM and go from there.

[trillbilly]

I have recently added an API to directly connect HISE builds to the SoundSync server. It includes an easy drop-in hise code and hise demo project.

This activates a provided serial from our server within the plugin. The serial will provide the information to our server (plugin name, price, was it a promo, who is the reseller, etc). These are all terms you can set using the serial generator.

This does not have webhooks at the moment to capture live website sales data. This will be an optional selection in the near future.

Anybody who would like to test beta just let me know. I can create you a free profile. This would include the entire SS platform.

[Seth Munson]

@trillbilly sounds like something I'd be interested in! Happy to try it out if you're still needing people to test :)

[trillbilly]

@Seth-Munson I've sent you a DM.

[trillbilly]

New Updates:

• Custom Prefix for serial generator
• Custom Product Links
• Developer/Reseller Invite System In Place
• Smoothed Custom Domain Process

I will have Free vs Paid tiers in place by this weekend so signups will no longer require a card.

I also have the Website Designer in the pipeline.

If anybody has requests for any specific types of features, just let me know. I'll do my best to get them all added.