Ownware
Press & creator kit

Everything you need to cover Ownware.

Ownware is a catalog of 47 self-hosted PHP business apps — invoicing, booking, POS, CRM and more — sold once for $59–$129 (extended licences for client work on every product) with full source code and a live demo on every product; with the SaaS Kit control plane and Own Your AI (local-AI software you run yourself) that makes 49 products, plus Ownware OS (the whole catalog + control plane, $1,299) and Ownware Cloud (we host it, from $12/month — after 12 paid months the self-host license is yours). This page has the facts, assets and boilerplate so you can publish without waiting on us. Questions anyway? [email protected].

Fast facts

The numbers, checkable on this site.

01products

49

47 self-hosted PHP business apps, the SaaS Kit control plane and Own Your AI — all listed on the catalog homepage. None of them are free.

02Ownware OS

$1,299

The whole catalog plus the SaaS Kit control plane, one payment — the anti-ERP.

03Ownware Cloud

from $12/mo

Hosted tier: private instance, nightly backups, full export + source anytime; license yours after 12 paid months.

04price range

$59–$129

One-time license per product (extended tier available). No subscription, ever.

05what you get

full source

Complete PHP source ZIP, yours to run and modify on your own server.

06stack

PHP 8.0+

Plain PHP with MySQL or SQLite — runs on ordinary shared hosting or a small VPS.

07live demos

{slug}.ownware.io

Every product has an ungated auto-login demo — no signup wall, no sales call.

08checkout

Lemon Squeezy

Merchant of Record — handles payment, VAT and delivery. Founded 2026.

Traction, dated

What has actually happened, with the dates.

Every figure here is a dated historical fact from our own access log and order records, stated once and not extrapolated. As of 30 August 2026:

  • First paid order: 30 August 2026 — one single licence, organic: search engine → a comparison page → the live demo → the suite page → purchase, fully attributed in the server log. The buyer's own AI agent read our legal, support and security pages before they paid.
  • The full account, with the receipts: A buyer's AI agent vetted us before they bought — what the agent fetched, the four URLs it guessed that returned 404, and what we changed the same night. Written from our own access log; no buyer details.
  • The twenty clean days before it (8–27 August): 690 human visits, 305 product views, 111 demo clicks, 10 checkout clicks, 0 sales — bots, our own traffic, AI agents and link-walking crawlers excluded by the funnel parser. (Re-read 30 August after the parser learned to drop crawlers that hit every Buy link once without ever loading a page; the earlier figures here, 429 / 229 / 61 / 8, came from a narrower read and understated.)
  • Machines read the store more than people do: 2,396 AI-crawler fetches and 1,099 AI-assistant fetches between 2 and 26 August, against 690 human visits in the twenty clean days. ChatGPT was the third-largest human referrer.
  • Known limitations, stated plainly: one sale; under a month of instrumented history; no customer reviews yet; payments run through a merchant of record (Lemon Squeezy). We do not annualise a single order into a run-rate, and neither should you.
For reviewers

Free review copies, no strings.

01policy

Ask for any product, get the full ZIP

Email [email protected] with the product you want to review and a link to where you publish. You get the complete source ZIP — the same one buyers download — and you keep it. No time bomb, no crippled build.

02policy

No draft approval, no obligation

We never ask to see coverage before it goes live, and requesting a copy does not commit you to publishing anything. Honest criticism is fine — it is more useful to us than praise.

03policy

Deep-link the demos

Every product's live demo at {slug}.ownware.io auto-logs your readers in — link them straight from your article or video description. Product pages live at ownware.io/p/{slug}.

04policy

Screenshot freely

Take your own screenshots of the demos, or reuse the images from any product page. Attribute "ownware.io" and you are covered.

Boilerplate

Ready-to-paste descriptions.

50words

Ownware sells 47 self-hosted business apps — invoicing, booking, POS, CRM and more — as one-time purchases for $59–$129, plus a control plane and local-AI software you run yourself (49 products). Each app ships as full PHP source with a live demo. Also: the whole catalog plus control plane for $1,299 (Ownware OS), or hosted from $12/month with the license yours after a year (Ownware Cloud). Buy once, keep your data.

100words

Ownware is a software store built on a simple premise: businesses should own their tools, not rent them. Its catalog of 47 self-hosted apps covers invoicing, appointment booking, point of sale, CRM, expenses, digital waivers, gym and rental management, and more; the SaaS Kit control plane and Own Your AI, local-AI software you run on your own machine, complete its 49 products. Every app is a one-time purchase for $59–$129, delivered as complete PHP source code that runs on ordinary hosting with MySQL or SQLite — no vendor lock-in, no monthly fees, and data that stays on your own server. Each app has an ungated live demo at its own subdomain, and checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy. Founded in 2026.

Assets

Images you can use.

Brand card: ownware.io/assets/og-home.jpg (1200×630). Product screenshots live on each product page at ownware.io/p/{slug} — any image from a product page may be reused in coverage with attribution “ownware.io”.

Badge: the “Runs on Ownware” mark a buyer may put on a site that runs software bought here — light and dark SVG, embed code, and exactly what it does and does not claim.

The store screenshot
The store
Homepage — catalog, new-releases band, suites. 1600px, JPEG — click for full size.
Ownware OS screenshot
Ownware OS
The whole-catalog flagship page. 1600px, JPEG — click for full size.
Ownware Cloud screenshot
Ownware Cloud
The hosted tier at cloud.ownware.io. 1600px, JPEG — click for full size.
Price Observatory screenshot
Price Observatory
Verified SaaS pricing index (CC BY 4.0). 1600px, JPEG — click for full size.
The calculator screenshot
The calculator
Rent vs own vs hosted, cited prices. 1600px, JPEG — click for full size.
The OS console screenshot
The OS console
App tiles, backup age, one-click admin hand-off. 1600px, JPEG — click for full size.
Affiliate program

Get paid for the coverage.

35% flat commission, 90-day cookie, applications auto-approved, payouts via Lemon Squeezy. Reviewing and earning are independent — join or don't, the review copy stands either way. Details and signup: ownware.io/affiliates.

Contact

One address for everything.

Review copies, interviews, fact-checks, corrections: [email protected]. Company and legal details are on the legal page.

Affiliate program
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