Talkak goes on sale: the paid funnel is live
The same day the first notarized build landed, the landing page became a real funnel: download the notarized app, or start a 14-day free trial that rolls into $12.99/month. Wiring it surfaced a broken download link pointing at a version that no longer existed.
From 'sellable' to 'on sale'
Notarization made Talkak installable by strangers. This step made it buyable.
talkak.daeseon.ai is now a working funnel:
- Download → the notarized, stapled
Talkak_0.2.31_aarch64.zip(opens with no Gatekeeper warning). - Start free trial → a Lemonsqueezy checkout: 14 days free, then $12.99/month.
Lemonsqueezy is the Merchant of Record, so VAT/sales-tax across countries isn't ours to
register for — it sells license keys and handles the tax. The product was verified
through their API before wiring: one variant, $12.99 interval month, trial true
for 14 days.
The bug the wiring exposed
The landing's old copy was actively lying in two ways, both now fixed:
- "Unsigned build (right-click → Open)." False as of notarization day — the app is now signed with a Developer ID and notarized. That warning kills trust at the exact moment someone decides to download. Replaced with "Notarized by Apple — opens normally."
- A 404 download. The download button pointed at
Talkak_0.2.26_aarch64.dmg— a version that had been removed. The button, the hero pill, and the price card were all frozen at stale versions (0.2.26/0.2.28) and a stale price ($96/year) while the real shipped artifact was0.2.31at$12.99/month.
The fix repointed the button at the notarized zip and verified it the only way that
counts — fetching the live URL: HTTP 200, application/zip, 8,897,903 bytes, and
the byte-for-byte same SHA-256 as the notarized build on disk. The old .dmg URLs now
return 404.
The lesson
The download link is the single asset that must always equal the shipped notarized artifact. A landing page accretes hardcoded version strings and prices in a dozen places (button, hero, price card, both languages), and any one left stale is either a 404 or a lie. After every release, fetch the live URL and assert the bytes — "it's in the folder" is not "it downloads."