Terms
These terms describe the product you are buying, the changes the software makes on your machine, and the limits of any promise about it.
1. What you're buying
- Lemon Squeezy sells you launchpad as the merchant of record, and its buyer terms apply to the sale: it takes the payment, charges any sales tax or VAT, and emails you the license key. Siddharth Karia makes launchpad and licenses it to you under these terms.
- You buy a software license once, at $49. It is not a subscription, a service or hosting. All 1.x updates included; 2.0 is a paid upgrade, discounted for owners.
- It runs on your machine. It invokes
git,gh,xcodebuild,gradleand the Claude CLI locally. The one server of ours it talks to delivers the software to a machine with an activated key. The things you build do not pass through that server. - You can read what runs. What you install is a small loader; the software itself arrives, once a key is activated, as plain, signed files on your machine — compiled JavaScript, the skills and the templates. A signed file that was changed is not run, and an update replaces them.
- No repository content is transmitted to us. The outbound requests are listed in the privacy notice, and each one is triggered by something you do.
- It writes into repositories you point it at — workflows, configuration, documentation,
and state under
.launchpad/. That is its purpose, and it is also the main risk to disclose. - It can cause you to spend money indirectly — CI minutes, and AI usage if you enable the overnight worker.
2. License
You get a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use the software on machines you own or control, for your own projects and those of your employer or clients. The license does not expire. It covers updates as follows: all 1.x updates included; 2.0 is a paid upgrade, discounted for owners. Each key activates on up to 2 machines at a time. Release one before you move the key to another.
If your key is disabled, for example after a chargeback, it stops working and launchpad removes its own files from your machines. It never deletes your projects.
You may not resell, sublicense or redistribute it, or publish it in whole or substantial part. You may read it and take it apart to understand what it does to your machine — that is encouraged, not merely permitted, and it is delivered as plain, readable files precisely so that you can. A copy you change no longer matches its signature and is not run; an update replaces the installed copy.
The free build is for trying launchpad on one app. Its files are compiled the same way, without their comments, and the parts it leaves out do not run. The same terms apply to them: you may read them on your own computer, and you may not copy them, or any part of them, into another project.
3. Changes to your repositories
Every change it makes is a file in a git repository. It writes only inside the directories you register, and it deletes only files that git can restore. Use version control, and commit or stash work you care about before running it against a repository. That is ordinary practice, and it is also your protection.
4. The overnight worker
The overnight worker is an opt-in beta, off by default, enabled per project. When enabled it runs an AI agent unattended against that repository and will commit — and in push mode, push — code no human has reviewed. It requires a gate command that must pass first. You are responsible for the gate being a real check, for the branch it may write to, for reviewing what it produced, and for any AI or CI costs it incurs. Do not enable it where an unreviewed commit would cause harm.
5. Third-party services and costs
The pipelines it configures use GitHub Actions, Apple, Google, Cloudflare, Vercel, Firebase and others. You need your own accounts, you agree to their terms, and you pay their charges — CI minutes, developer program fees, AI usage. We do not resell, mark up or control any of them, and their prices can change without notice to you or to us. Where a cost is named in the product or on this site, it is an estimate to help you decide, not a quote.
6. No warranty
The software is provided "as is". It automates deployment configuration; it does not guarantee that any app will build, pass review, be accepted by any store, or reach any user. We do not warrant that a store will approve your app, that a pipeline will succeed on your codebase, or that a readiness check reflects any store's current requirements. Store requirements change and are theirs, not ours.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid. We are not liable for lost revenue, lost data, lost app-store standing, the cost of substitute tooling, third-party charges you incurred, or damage arising from code committed by the overnight worker.
These terms do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you bought as a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.
8. Sales are final
Sales are final. If anything goes wrong, write to support@shiplaunchpad.com with the report launchpad prints. Support works through the problem with you, fixes what launchpad got wrong, and can free the seat on a machine you no longer use. See sales and support.
9. Support
One person gives support on a best-effort basis, by email to
support@shiplaunchpad.com. There is no response-time guarantee and no
support contract. It helps to send what /launchpad:doctor prints in Claude Code, and the
command that failed. Support does not cover your application code, your third-party accounts, or store
review outcomes.
10. Changes
Terms may change for future purchases. The terms you bought under continue to apply to your license.
11. Governing law
These terms follow the law of California. If you bought as a consumer, you also keep the protection of the law where you live that a contract cannot take away.
Last built 2026-11-15.