I got tired of EA piracy & license sharing — so I built my own solution. Would love honest feedback

I’ve been developing MT4/MT5 EAs for a few years now, and one issue never really went away:

License sharing, cracked .ex files, and zero visibility once the EA is “out there”.

I tried most existing licensing solutions, but they were either: • too easy to bypass • not built for MetaTrader at all • or completely opaque once deployed

So over the last months, I ended up building a small SaaS for myself: • hardware-bound licensing • heartbeat monitoring per terminal • signed signal broadcasting (HMAC, replay protection) • optional Stripe-based license control

I’m not sure yet if this solves the right problems for other EA devs — that’s why I’m posting here.

👉 If you sell or manage EAs/signals: • What’s your biggest pain point today? • Do you even trust licensing systems at all?

If anyone’s curious, the project is called AlgoGuard: https://algoguard.dev

Not trying to sell anything — genuinely looking for feedback from people who’ve been burned by this before.