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The pricing ruling landed twice (2026-09-21 one-time, then 2026-09-27 Store IAP $10/mo + $400 lifetime) and the map never caught up. Six tracked files still told a future session that billing was Polar and the price was $29/$49. A stale memory map is worse than a stale comment: it is the file every session trusts, and this one was actively steering work toward a deleted provider. MONETIZATION.md (gitignored, so not in this commit) was rebuilt first: - "Revenue projections" now carries a modelled Year 1 forecast — pessimistic $4.0K / base $15.4K / optimistic $53.3K net, ~$22K weighted. Funnel is installs -> 35-45% activate -> 1.5-3% of active users pay. - Three findings recorded: Year 1 is ~97% lifetime transactions (subs net $392 of $15.4K, so MRR is not a Year-1 planning input); conversion dominates price (~1pp of conversion = ~$7K net, and ADA 6(h) locks $10 anyway); subscriber churn moves Year 1 by under $200 and is a Year-2 problem. - Break-even restated for $400: $25K net = 74 lifetime buyers, not 862. The price cut the volume requirement ~10x and raised the skill requirement to match. - Market sizing willingness-to-pay row rewritten. The 100K-400K TAM was price-bound to $29-49 and is wrong at $400; revised ~20K-60K, flagged as an estimate rather than a sourced number. - Flagged a real contradiction: $500K ARR needs ~4,900 concurrent subscribers, so the Exit section's ARR multiples do not describe what Years 1-3 produce. The defensible asset there is lifetime cash flow, not ARR. Tracked files corrected to match: - ai.md: paid-delta, pricing and billing bullets rewritten; Polar product id, org id, LCYT- key prefix and LLAMAFOUNDER/LLAMA50 marked as deleted; 15% share + net-after-tax recorded with the ADA 6(b)(i) citation. - TASKS.md: catalog row retitled as a teardown; the "still to verify — the price is not decided" note closed (it contradicted the ruling 20 lines below it); the OverlayHost "Polar unlocks alerts" open question marked resolved; Polar file-hosting deliverable removed from the release build. - task-10: reframed as a teardown. Steps 4-5 marked as surviving, 1-2-3-6-7 as deleting, 8 as a compliance action (Velopack downloads AND executes, which Store policy 10.2.2 does not permit). - task-36 item 5 (license-expiry reminders) struck — no key, no expiry, no lapse under Store IAP, so there is nothing to remind anyone about. - Distribution.md 4.2 / 4.4 / 4.5 marked obsolete; 4.5's "already implemented" corrected, since PolarLicenseService is being deleted rather than shipped. - README: "one-time license" -> "paid tier". Historical Polar sections are retained deliberately — the reasoning is reusable (merchant-of-record, fee comparison), only the conclusions are dead. Each is now labelled so it cannot be mistaken for the plan. No code touched.
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# TASK 36 — Gold pass (queued 2026-09-01; the going-gate, always the last work unit)
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> Catalog: [`TASKS.md`](../TASKS.md) — status and requirements live here.
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**Goal:** the single deliberate pass that turns the dev product into the shipped product. Nothing here
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may be done opportunistically mid-development — each item has a lock/comment pointing at this task.
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1. ☐ **Visibility unlock** — remove the `CreateBroadcast` Private override (TASK 9 item 6); dialog
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selection rules. The channel-protection stance ends at GA, by hand, here.
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2. ☐ **Branding flash goes live** — end the preview-only pre-GA posture: composite the escalating
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obnoxious-promo flash onto output + recordings for free users. Paid removes it; that stays the
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ONLY paid delta. (Escalation curve finalized here, first.)
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3. ☐ **Screens/layers settings audit** — the retired 2026-08-22 landmine (ai.md): fine-tooth-comb
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every screen's Background layer properties, pill persistence, context-menu visibility, (+) items.
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4. ☐ **Native-Windows verification suite** — the checklist TASKS/HANDOFF never had: real webcam,
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real mp4 decode/loop/pacing (TASK 21 picker must have landed), real recording file opens +
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plays (fragmented MP4), a real private go-live end-to-end, GUI/RealApp test classes green on
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the desktop (they've only ever run against fakes).
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5. ⛔ **STRUCK — License-expiry reminders are dead.** This item assumed a Polar license with an
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`expires_at` we could warn about. Under **Store IAP** there is no key, no expiry, and no lapse:
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the lifetime entitlement never ends and the subscription is renewed by Microsoft. **Nothing to
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remind anyone about — do not build.** (The `expires_at` question is moot for the same reason:
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`PolarLicenseService` is being deleted.)
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6. ☐ **Release engineering** (the `Distribution.md` plan, 644 lines, finally tasked): code signing
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(HARD blocker — an unsigned installer is a SmartScreen scarewall), installer + Velopack update URL
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(TASK 10 item 8), EULA draft/review, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES license-texts gate (TASK 4 req 9).
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Build posture (agreed ceiling): compile flags max out at `HARDENED` (release-only anti-debug/
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tamper checks) + `MOCK_REWARDS` (fake reward payloads for Alerts/dev) — **additive-only**, never
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branching normal code paths, both compiled every CI build so they can't rot. Obfuscation /
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assembly-splitting stay GA-time decisions, not compile-time ones.
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---
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## v1 = the finished product (creator ruling, 2026-09-01)
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**There is no v1.x.** v1 ships feature-complete: everything in the queue above lands, or is
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explicitly buried below. The parking lot is closed — nothing is "deferred to a later version"
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anymore; the only two states are **v1 task** and **out of product, permanently**. The 10% margin of
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error is this list, bounded and written down — not vibes.
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**Monetization posture restated (what "final" means):** free gives everything; the only difference
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is the branding flash. License activation flips exactly one bit (`IsPremium` → flash off). Nagware =
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the escalating obnoxious self-promo flash itself — never modals, never feature-locks. Pre-GA the
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flash is preview-only (see ai.md → Monetization; TASK 36 flips it live).
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## Out of product — permanently (the 10% margin, closed list — do not re-litigate)
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| Idea | Verdict & reason |
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| Stream Deck / Loupedeck integration | The device sends keystrokes — **global hotkeys already ARE the integration** (TASK 20). Redundant, not deferred. |
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| Per-source audio sync offset | Global offset shipped (TASK 22); per-source is the OBS mixer rabbit hole. Condemned by the Audio Assumption (one knob). |
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| Profiles / presets (multi-config) | Same hydra as multi-layout, already ruled at TASK 30: **that's what OBS is for.** |
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| Chroma key / background removal | Already ❌ (TASK 3 item 19). NVIDIA Broadcast does it free; model+GPU+lighting caveats = support hell for a solo dev. Stays buried. |
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| Virtual camera output (Zoom/Discord) | Different product, device-driver swamp. Our output is one YouTube stream. |
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| Replay buffer (instant replay) | Game-clipping culture, not our persona. **The most valuable corpse here** — if the list is ever reopened at all, this is candidate #1, and it reopens by creator ruling, not by AI suggestion. |
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| Multi-destination restreaming | "Casual streamers outgrow LlamaCasty first" — the map already said it; the per-destination audio/monitoring expectations are a different product. |
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| Stream clipping | YouTube killed clips; trimming local MP4 is an editor. |
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| Advanced broadcast-form tab (latency/DVR/embed/projection/CC/region) | TASK 9 item 7 rescoped: fixed sane defaults, invisible. Every exposed field is a support ticket. |
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| In-app bug-report mechanism | Never built, never will be: support = email + GitHub issues. (ai.md's support line corrected to match, 2026-09-01. Second-place corpse if the list ever reopens: with replay buffer.) |
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| D3DImage/GPU preview compositor | TASK 3 item 16 superseded: XAML preview + software output compositor are the design; a D3D11 swap remains a seam-respecting possibility, not a feature. |
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| Simultaneous record + stream | Creator ruling 2026-09-01: the VOD is the copy; dual encode drags mediocre hardware and degrades both outputs. "We're not them." Two modes, radio pills, one stop. |
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| Premiere / video-upload pipeline | Uploading finished videos is Studio's job (quota-brutal, processing-state polling, API premiere support unproven). Watch-parties are fandom behavior, not our persona. "Going live is our schedule." |
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| Scheduled playout (pre-recorded file airs as live) | Discussed fully 2026-09-01 and declined by the creator — "let's not." If it ever returns, it returns by ruling, with machine-on caveats and the media-audio slice as its price of admission. |
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*If a future session is tempted by anything on this list, the answer is already written. New ideas
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must survive this page before they get a task number.*
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