I am very pleased to announce the release of my latest project: shAIR. It is a product that is designed to be used by developers of Adobe AIR applications and makes it very easy for those developers to add “shAIRware” functionality to their applications.
shAIR solves the greatest challenge to the AIR platform for serious developers – how to integrate a trial period, registration & authentication – by creating a simple solution that helps protect and commoditize their applications and intellectual property. It’s simply brilliant!shAIR is a combination of an as3 swc file and the website/ API which this connects to. A developer integrates the swc into their application and uses the administration panel on the shAIR website to create and administer licenses for the application.
The beautiful identity and website design was done by my good friends over at hoppermagic – thanks guys :) You should get in touch with them if you want to commision any similarily exquisite work!
The launch of shAIR is also interesting because it marks a change in the direction of my company (Luck Laboratories Ltd) from a purely consultancy based company to one which also produces it’s own products. It’s going to be an interesting ride but I’m really excited by the possibilities for shAIR and looking around the web I think it is something that lots of people have been looking for.
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This is great work kelvin! I don't have any air applications right now but I am going to dive in. shAIR not only provides a great avenue to monetize for air developers but also to bring together cool air apps under one hut.
February 12th, 2009
Kelvin,
Sounds good, great web site design also!
How does this compare with Nitro-LM's Features and Capabilities?
Are you also doing encryption of customer application with your licensing?
How do you actually protect the application beyond authorized registration?
I guess the most important question is when can it be purchased?
B.
February 20th, 2009
Hi Brian,
Sorry for the slow reply - I didn't see your comment here until just now. Glad you like the idea and the site design :)
I'm not actually familiar with Nitro LM and after spending half an hour clicking around their site I can't say I understand much more about it! It appears to me to be targetted at a very different market than Sharify (the new name for shAIR). I couldn't find any information on their pricing structure or how you implement their product so I can't really give a fair comparison.
I will say that one of the main aims of Sharify is that it is very approachable to people coming from a web design/ creative background. I believe that people like this will be the ones with the ideas behind the next generation of must-have applications and that they will be using AIR to make those applications (as it allows them to leverage their already existing skills in Flash, Flex and HTML/JS). This seems to me to be a very different focus to Nitro LM.
The current beta of Sharify doesn't encrypt the client application but that is something which is on our roadmap and we've done some R&D in that direction. I would hope to be able to offer this facility once Sharify comes out of beta. We don't have a solid date for this but if you would like to start using Sharify sooner rather than later then please register on the site and include a description of your application and your requirements and we'll see if we can invite you to join the beta,
Thanks for the comments and questions,
Kelvin :)
March 24th, 2009
It seems very interesting maybe I will use this service in the future :)
April 21st, 2009
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