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How complex would it be to sell a script as a subscription service?

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 30, 2020
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It's not necessarily my goal, and I'm getting way ahead of myself here, but I'm just curious if this is even doable?

Would it be relatively manageable to sell a script for say $10 and then $10/mo. to continue using it?

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CarlosCanto

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well, that just moves the project to very near the top of my do-do list.

can you share as much detail as you can about the bash/applescript/app or whatever it takes on the mac side.

I know my way around vbscript, I might be able to translate.

Disposition_Dev

Legend

To keep this thread uncluttered, I just made a new post for this:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/looking-for-help-with-a-windows-compatible-web-socket-workaround/td-p/11103781?page=1

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

Interesting william, I'd be interested in making a Windows version...but not now, I'm a bit busy lately.

Disposition_Dev

Legend

if you do, at some point, come up with one and you're willing to share, i'd be very grateful. i have 2 main scripts that rely on getting some JSON data from the web at runtime, and because of the way i built that function, it only works on mac. now that we have people working from home, it has become necessary for this stuff to work on windows as well, but i don't know the first thing about VB or whatever would be necessary to port this functionality to windows.

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

there are a couple of scripts for sell on Gumroad, buy one of them to have a feel of how it works and see what kind of product you get. It's only $5, so no harm.

my guess is that since we can't make socket calls to a web server we won't be able to veryfiy a licence. But I don't know much about the topic to give you any kind of solid advice.

Maybe if you make an Extension?? I didn't read enough to see how much their cut is.

Disposition_Dev

Legend

on mac, i've conjured up a workaround to the missing socket functionality using BASH and applescript.. I'm not sure how realistic it would be in the situation we're talking about here, but it's possible..

Basically I write a bash script dynamically at runtime, then call an applescript app to execute the bash script which contains a curl command to a given url and points the result to a local file which can be read/validated. all it can do is read data.. it can't interact with the website or do any login stuff.. but it's a possible method of controling (or limiting) your scripts remotely..

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Do you want to sell? Or buy?

In my experience I would say: No.

You cannot secure it sufficiently.

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Maple StirrupAuteur

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I was looking to sell.

I didn't get a chance yet to look into Bronkit's suggestion (but thanks! I will definetely look further into this), does anyone else have more information on that? I'm guessing they take a significant cut?

I wouldn't need high security, just low level would work, it's not high tech...

Would I be able to to have my own script encrypted and simply communicate with my home PC to check if the user is still subscribed?

bretyboy

Inspiring

You can use a service like Gumroad to sell your product and manage your payments: https://gumroad.com/features

Of course you'd have to include code in your script to ask gumroad if the user is still subscribed.

More on how to talk to gumroad:
https://help.gumroad.com/article/76-license-keys

A little tricky for someone brand new to scripting, but doable. Hopefully somewhat helpful!

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