Dev tools · September 13, 2018

Keydock
Painless license key generation for products you develop.
Keydock launched on September 13, 2018 with 133 votes, #229 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
What it does
Keydock is a painless way to generate and distribute license keys to your customers. Use our interface to generate/import licenses and then utilize the API to check/activate them from your product.
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