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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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# ytLlive
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<p align="center">
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<img src="Assets/llamacasty-logo.jpg" alt="LlamaCasty — livestream smarter" height="120"/>
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</p>
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A creator-proof live-streaming and recording app for YouTube — native Windows (C# / WPF / .NET 8).
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## Screenshot
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## Design Principle
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> This software is so intuitive that even the most right-brained person can easily intuit and use it.
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Every feature is measured against this. One-click go-live, sane YouTube defaults, visual scene
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building, and no dead ends — every action has a visible outcome.
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## Why ytLlive
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OBS treats YouTube as an afterthought; SLOBS is Twitch-first with YouTube bolted on. ytLlive is
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designed and dedicated to YouTube livestreaming and recording, and to YouTube's specific quirks.
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## Account Assumption
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ytLlive assumes you already have a YouTube creator account — connecting uses "Sign in with Google"
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to link that existing account. **ytLlive does not create accounts.** If you don't have a YouTube
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channel yet, set one up on YouTube first, then connect it here.
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## Audio Assumption
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ytLlive uses your **default** microphone and desktop/game output — it never hunts for a device or
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contends for one. **It assumes your audio is already configured and working** (default input and
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output set, not hijacked by another app). Audio issues are a Windows/device matter outside ytLlive's
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scope: we don't debug, detect, or try to fix them. If it doesn't sound right, fix the system's audio
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settings first — it's on the OS, not on us.
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## Run
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```bash
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dotnet build # Windows only — WPF
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dotnet run
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```
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## Version Roadmap
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**v1 is the finished product** (creator ruling, 2026-09-01 — there are no v1.x releases).
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Everything still queueing lands in v1; anything not on the feature list is on the closed
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**"Out of product — permanently"** list in `TASKS.md` — read that page before asking for a feature.
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What v1 ships: the five-scene director's control surface, webcam + screen capture, media + web +
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text sources, chat on-stream, the social bar, mic/desktop audio with auto-duck and TRAX, local
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recording, variable quality tiers with auto step-down, one-click go-live + scheduling, stream
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resilience (auto-reconnect inside YouTube's grace, one-click back on air), built-in monetization
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awareness (reward capture, session reports, YPP journey tracker), Alerts — all free and ungated;
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the paid tier only removes the branding flash.
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## Structure
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| Path | Role |
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| `Models/` | Scene, Source, WebcamSceneConfig, SceneElement, SceneCatalog, QualityOption, StreamConfig/Health, chat, Socials, BroadcastMetadata, Music, MicStatus |
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| `ViewModels/` | MainViewModel (partial classes per area) + dialogs: GoLive, CameraPicker, MicPicker, HotkeyConfig, Socials, LiveBroadcastForm |
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| `Services/` | YouTube (OAuth, streams/broadcasts, chat polling), LayoutStore (SQLite), capture (camera/screen-capture/media-file via FFmpeg), SceneCompositor + FramePump, FFmpeg encoder + RTMP, audio pipeline (WASAPI loopback + mic, mixer, filters, ducker, limiter, TRAX), SocialValidator, notifications, hotkeys, SceneGraph, ChatOverlayLayer |
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| `Helpers/` | ViewModelBase, RelayCommand, ImageCache, AppLog, TokenStore (DPAPI), OAuthCredentials, converters |
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| `Themes/` | `Controls.xaml` — the dark-theme control styles, merged once in `App.xaml` |
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| `MainWindow.xaml` | Dark-theme control surface: thumbnails + central preview, two-state left panel (layers/properties ↔ live chat), top bar, footer |
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| `Distribution.md` | GA-time plan: signing, installer, EULA, hardening — executed as TASK 36 |
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## Docs (memory map)
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`schema.md` defines the conventions; `ai.md` is the AI/session guide;
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`TASKS.md` is the task queue. Each code directory carries an `index.md`.
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