Our Story
I'm Volkan Ozyilmaz. I studied bassoon at the state conservatory in Istanbul, then became a software developer. Music never left me, and in 2004 I founded Volko Audio to make audio plugins.
In early 2017 I was about to release three sibling EQ plugins, the Q American Series. I wanted customers to unlock the whole bundle with a single serial number. My licensing was home-made, because every solution I had looked at was either too expensive or didn't feel reliable. I searched once more, found nothing, and spent my days adding bundle support to my own system instead of releasing my products.
That was when I decided to turn my licensing system into a product. In May 2017 I described it on the JUCE forum and asked who else would use it. The post ended with "p.s. there is no protection system." A few developers were interested, and Keyzy began.
Volko Audio has since closed. Running an audio company alone taught me what independent developers deal with every day: building the product, selling it and keeping it from being cracked, often all by yourself. Keyzy is built for them.
Today Keyzy is a license manager and C++ SDK for macOS, Windows and Linux, with online, offline and trial licensing, bundles, upgrades and WooCommerce and Zapier integrations. The protection that was missing in 2017 is part of it now.