LlamaCasty

530 Commits 1 Branch 26 Tags

3 Commits

Include renames

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
gramps	8f79b20a18	docs(distribution): Steam is the only channel — the zip, winget and the Store are dead The site said "Coming soon to Steam" while the app docs still said direct download plus winget primary with Steam parked. One of them had to move, and the creator's ruling is Steam exclusive: a free app on Steam with the paid edition as a Steam DLC, and the $10/month plan sold off-Steam by Polar. Records the constraint that shapes the code, not just the prose: - Steamworks requires in-app purchases to use the Steam Wallet (Microtransactions doc, quoted in commercial.md), so the monthly is stated, never sold, inside a Steam build; the lifetime is plain DLC bought on the store page and read with BIsDlcInstalled. - Entitlement is `steamDlcOwned \|\| polarKeyValid`, both resolving to one OutputProfile. steam_api64.dll ships beside the exe and is a functional dependency, not the rejected "IP protection" native DLL — without it DLC ownership cannot be read. Launched without Steam, the app falls back to the free profile rather than refusing to start. - Signing is moot: Steam installs never meet SmartScreen. Artifact Signing stays on the shelf for the day a non-Steam download exists. Year-one fixed cost is ~$115. - The exe rename must land before the first depot upload — Steamworks warns about renaming a live exe. Distribution.md is rewritten to SteamPipe mechanics (publish output, depot, steamcmd, DLC wiring, clean-account purchase/refund test). product.md, decisions.md (a new "Steam exclusive" entry with every dead vector), TASKS.md (Steamworks entitlement row, Steam packaging row), ai.md, index.md and the TASK 48 banner follow. MyMistakes.md gains the Steam rules that cost real time today: installs skip SmartScreen, updates are free, the Wallet rule, and the recurring-billing caveat.	2026-10-31 11:05:53 -07:00
gramps	57ef9e7a5e	docs(commercial): the claim page was never needed, signing waits for revenue, and support is a filter Four things derived this session superseded what the plan said twenty-four hours earlier, and the docs are corrected where each one died: Licensing needs no server. Polar's customer-portal endpoints authenticate on the key itself plus the public organization_id; the org access token is only needed to create products. Channel binding rides in `conditions: {channel_id}`, re-checked on every validate — so the "claim page" (a hosted OAuth flow that wrote the UC id onto the key) and the key database it implied are deleted. Device management, key rotation and subscription auto-revocation are Polar's; four states, one lease, no callback endpoint. Signing is deferred until two subscribers. It never removes the day-one SmartScreen warning (EV's instant-bypass died in 2024), so buying it before revenue buys only the publisher line. Renamed to Azure Artifact Signing, $9.99/mo Basic, and it requires a paid Azure subscription. Year-one fixed cost drops from ~$135 to ~$15. The Store account is free. Microsoft waived the $19 individual fee and removed the $99 company fee in May 2026, which makes the Store the only zero-cost route to a Microsoft-signed install — the free answer to SmartScreen, noted beside the paid one. Support is a filter, not a promise. Email, best effort, no SLA, refunds on request without argument; no training service, no helpdesk. A repeated question becomes a training video on @llamacasty, which is content and monetization instead of a ticket. GitHub issues on the releases repo are the deliberate friction. Also settled: binaries live in a second Gitea repo (`llamacasty-releases`) push-mirrored to a public GitHub repo — issues and assets public, code private, one publish direction (a git mirror carries refs, not GitHub Release assets); `@llamacasty` is standard-verified with intermediate features, so live streaming, >15 min uploads and custom thumbnails work today and no SIM or ID is needed; and OAuth comes out of Testing mode by publishing the app (100-user lifetime cap, no 7-day token death). TASKS.md now opens with the four-day surge slice — artifact shape, output gate, entitlement seam, real-machine day — because those are what the first public release waits on. HANDOFF.md rewritten. MyMistakes.md gains the Polar recipe and the "verify means three different things" entry. MARCOM.md gains the support→content loop and the surface roles.	2026-10-31 10:08:05 -07:00
gramps	7827d239e2	docs(commercial): one source of truth for the money — prices, entitlement, channels The commercial plan was spread over five documents written in five different weeks, and they contradicted each other: product.md sold the Store, decisions.md called the Store dead then re-opened, Distribution.md (736 lines) still described Polar as a download host, MARCOM.md quoted "no subscription" next to a paid tier, and README.md promised "free forever". An outsider could not tell what ships. docs/ai/commercial.md is now the only place money is decided: free = whole app at a 921,600 px / 30 fps output profile covering the recording as well as the stream; Pro = $10/mo or $400 lifetime through Polar, key bound to the buyer's YouTube channel ID via a claim page, 2 activations, 7–14 day lease with offline grace, fail closed, never downgrade a running stream; one portable zip + winget primary, Steam and the Store parked; Azure Trusted Signing (~$9.99/mo), no EV; Founding 200 promo; ~$135/yr costs; anti-piracy posture and what is permanently rejected. Everything else now points at it instead of restating it: - product.md — money sections replaced with pointers; packaging rewritten to winget-first, Store parked; signing updated to Trusted Signing. - decisions.md — graveyard with cause of death for free-forever, the Store ordering, the updater, and the 2026-10-30 reversal of the quality-ceiling rejection. - Distribution.md — rewritten to release mechanics only (artifact, GitHub Releases, winget manifest, signing, checklist, takedown): 736 → 120 lines. - TASKS.md — TASK 54 rewritten, TASK 48's route settled, TASK 10 superseded, five new rows (entitlement seam, output-profile gate, licence UI, system messages, packaging). - README.md — "free forever" replaced with the real split. - capture.md — obs-backgroundremoval is GPL-3.0 and so licence-INCOMPATIBLE since the proprietary EULA; the old "compatible" line was falsified by that change. - TASKS/task-10, task-48, task-51, task-54 — superseded-banner at the top of each, so none of them reads as current policy. - HANDOFF.md — rewritten: plan settled, next code unit is the entitlement seam. MARCOM.md and MONETIZATION.md (gitignored) were corrected in place: policy pointer at the top of each, the flash removed from every live claim, the Polar fee break-even corrected to ~$900/mo, and the projections flagged as written against a dead model.	2026-10-31 08:32:25 -07:00

Author

SHA1

Message

Date

gramps

8f79b20a18

docs(distribution): Steam is the only channel — the zip, winget and the Store are dead

The site said "Coming soon to Steam" while the app docs still said direct download plus
winget primary with Steam parked. One of them had to move, and the creator's ruling is
Steam exclusive: a free app on Steam with the paid edition as a Steam DLC, and the
$10/month plan sold off-Steam by Polar.

Records the constraint that shapes the code, not just the prose:
- Steamworks requires in-app purchases to use the Steam Wallet (Microtransactions doc,
quoted in commercial.md), so the monthly is *stated*, never *sold*, inside a Steam
build; the lifetime is plain DLC bought on the store page and read with BIsDlcInstalled.
- Entitlement is `steamDlcOwned || polarKeyValid`, both resolving to one OutputProfile.
steam_api64.dll ships beside the exe and is a functional dependency, not the rejected
"IP protection" native DLL — without it DLC ownership cannot be read. Launched without
Steam, the app falls back to the free profile rather than refusing to start.
- Signing is moot: Steam installs never meet SmartScreen. Artifact Signing stays on the
shelf for the day a non-Steam download exists. Year-one fixed cost is ~$115.
- The exe rename must land before the first depot upload — Steamworks warns about
renaming a live exe.

Distribution.md is rewritten to SteamPipe mechanics (publish output, depot, steamcmd,
DLC wiring, clean-account purchase/refund test). product.md, decisions.md (a new
"Steam exclusive" entry with every dead vector), TASKS.md (Steamworks entitlement row,
Steam packaging row), ai.md, index.md and the TASK 48 banner follow. MyMistakes.md gains
the Steam rules that cost real time today: installs skip SmartScreen, updates are free,
the Wallet rule, and the recurring-billing caveat.

2026-10-31 11:05:53 -07:00

gramps

57ef9e7a5e

docs(commercial): the claim page was never needed, signing waits for revenue, and support is a filter

Four things derived this session superseded what the plan said twenty-four hours earlier,
and the docs are corrected where each one died:

**Licensing needs no server.** Polar's customer-portal endpoints authenticate on the key
itself plus the public organization_id; the org access token is only needed to create
products. Channel binding rides in `conditions: {channel_id}`, re-checked on every
validate — so the "claim page" (a hosted OAuth flow that wrote the UC id onto the key)
and the key database it implied are deleted. Device management, key rotation and
subscription auto-revocation are Polar's; four states, one lease, no callback endpoint.

**Signing is deferred until two subscribers.** It never removes the day-one SmartScreen
warning (EV's instant-bypass died in 2024), so buying it before revenue buys only the
publisher line. Renamed to Azure Artifact Signing, $9.99/mo Basic, and it requires a
paid Azure subscription. Year-one fixed cost drops from ~$135 to ~$15.

**The Store account is free.** Microsoft waived the $19 individual fee and removed the
$99 company fee in May 2026, which makes the Store the only zero-cost route to a
Microsoft-signed install — the free answer to SmartScreen, noted beside the paid one.

**Support is a filter, not a promise.** Email, best effort, no SLA, refunds on request
without argument; no training service, no helpdesk. A repeated question becomes a
training video on @llamacasty, which is content and monetization instead of a ticket.
GitHub issues on the releases repo are the deliberate friction.

Also settled: binaries live in a second Gitea repo (`llamacasty-releases`) push-mirrored
to a public GitHub repo — issues and assets public, code private, one publish direction
(a git mirror carries refs, not GitHub Release assets); `@llamacasty` is
standard-verified with intermediate features, so live streaming, >15 min uploads and
custom thumbnails work today and no SIM or ID is needed; and OAuth comes out of Testing
mode by publishing the app (100-user lifetime cap, no 7-day token death).

TASKS.md now opens with the four-day surge slice — artifact shape, output gate,
entitlement seam, real-machine day — because those are what the first public release
waits on. HANDOFF.md rewritten. MyMistakes.md gains the Polar recipe and the
"verify means three different things" entry. MARCOM.md gains the support→content loop
and the surface roles.

2026-10-31 10:08:05 -07:00

gramps

7827d239e2

docs(commercial): one source of truth for the money — prices, entitlement, channels

The commercial plan was spread over five documents written in five different weeks,
and they contradicted each other: product.md sold the Store, decisions.md called the
Store dead then re-opened, Distribution.md (736 lines) still described Polar as a
download host, MARCOM.md quoted "no subscription" next to a paid tier, and README.md
promised "free forever". An outsider could not tell what ships.

docs/ai/commercial.md is now the only place money is decided: free = whole app at a
921,600 px / 30 fps output profile covering the recording as well as the stream; Pro =
$10/mo or $400 lifetime through Polar, key bound to the buyer's YouTube channel ID via
a claim page, 2 activations, 7–14 day lease with offline grace, fail closed, never
downgrade a running stream; one portable zip + winget primary, Steam and the Store
parked; Azure Trusted Signing (~$9.99/mo), no EV; Founding 200 promo; ~$135/yr costs;
anti-piracy posture and what is permanently rejected.

Everything else now points at it instead of restating it:
- product.md — money sections replaced with pointers; packaging rewritten to
  winget-first, Store parked; signing updated to Trusted Signing.
- decisions.md — graveyard with cause of death for free-forever, the Store ordering,
  the updater, and the 2026-10-30 reversal of the quality-ceiling rejection.
- Distribution.md — rewritten to release mechanics only (artifact, GitHub Releases,
  winget manifest, signing, checklist, takedown): 736 → 120 lines.
- TASKS.md — TASK 54 rewritten, TASK 48's route settled, TASK 10 superseded, five new
  rows (entitlement seam, output-profile gate, licence UI, system messages, packaging).
- README.md — "free forever" replaced with the real split.
- capture.md — obs-backgroundremoval is GPL-3.0 and so licence-INCOMPATIBLE since the
  proprietary EULA; the old "compatible" line was falsified by that change.
- TASKS/task-10, task-48, task-51, task-54 — superseded-banner at the top of each, so
  none of them reads as current policy.
- HANDOFF.md — rewritten: plan settled, next code unit is the entitlement seam.

MARCOM.md and MONETIZATION.md (gitignored) were corrected in place: policy pointer at
the top of each, the flash removed from every live claim, the Polar fee break-even
corrected to ~$900/mo, and the projections flagged as written against a dead model.

2026-10-31 08:32:25 -07:00