Self-hosted apps are awesome, but licensing them is a mess

I've been building enterprise tools for some time now, and it was shocking to see that nothing properly helps you license self-hosted tools. So you have to build something, maybe internally, to help you with this, but this quickly gets complicated with the volume of things, and you then need to have a team manage this fully.

I've had to build a version of this before for an on-prem version of our software at some companies I've worked with.

There's a bunch of bullshit you have to go through with each company's procurement/security team. Setting allow lists for IP addresses, ports, update frequencies, whether or not they want automatic updates, and the allowed telemetry.

I don't know, and maybe it's just me who's a bit frustrated by this. So, how do you license your on-prem, open-source, or self-hosted version of your software to enterprise teams or teams in general? Are there any tools you use? What are your best practices?

Due to my personal frustration, I decided to attempt building something seamless that fits what I need. Paywall - License - Deploy. THE END

I called it Kage (https://kagehq.com). I would love your thoughts and feedback. I genuinely want to learn what people are doing or using.