{"id":26393,"date":"2019-08-27T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26393"},"modified":"2019-09-09T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:51:08","slug":"devmate-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/devmate-end-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"DevMate End of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/announcement.devmate.com\/\">DevMate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/announcement.devmate.com\/\">\n<p>However, with recent changes in the way that software businesses manage their applications, it has become clear that reproducing DevMate capabilities in Paddle would not best support their needs for the future. As a result we have taken the decision to close the DevMate platform.<\/p>\n<p>On December 16th 2019, the DevMate platform and software suite will be retired. After this date, there will be no new product features and no ability to generate new licenses. Existing licenses will continue to work; you will be able to manage existing licenses securely through a new tool, and we will continue to provide essential technical support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I recommend doing your own license generation.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/esellerate-shutting-down\/\">eSellerate Shutting Down<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"devmate-end-of-life-update-2019-09-09\">Update (2019-09-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2019\/09\/devmate-end-of-life\/\">Christian Tietze<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2019\/09\/devmate-end-of-life\/\">\n<p>Nowadays I discover more and more people struggling to migrate away, and my blog pops up in their searches &#x2013; apparently because I wrote a book on selling apps on FastSpring.<\/p>\n<p>This post is meant to help you figure some things out, but I don&rsquo;t yet have a compelling alternative to offer. As far as I know, there is no fully compatible drop-in replacement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DevMate: However, with recent changes in the way that software businesses manage their applications, it has become clear that reproducing DevMate capabilities in Paddle would not best support their needs for the future. As a result we have taken the decision to close the DevMate platform. On December 16th 2019, the DevMate platform and software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-27T20:05:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"555369e6-f80b-499c-9d14-2b10d1468b84","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-09-09T17:51:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AVVNp5vgLSZydFCsQ0UaLhA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,75,30,1609,1597,1451],"class_list":["post-26393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-developertool","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-paddle","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26520,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions\/26520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}