Selling audio software comes with its own set of challenges. Licensing models need to be flexible, upgrade paths must respect long product lifecycles, and customers expect consistent experiences across platforms and versions.

Too often, turning an audio product into a business means stitching together systems that were never designed for this world. Most teams accept this complexity as the cost of doing business.

Moonbase exists to remove that friction. We built it after working closely with audio software teams and seeing firsthand how months of engineering time are lost to infrastructure that should simply work. Payments, licensing, subscriptions, upgrades, affiliates, and compliance are essential parts of running a software business, yet they are often treated as afterthoughts that require custom code and constant maintenance.

Instead of forcing teams into rigid commerce platforms or closed ecosystems, we provide a flexible platform with deep API access that adapts to how audio software is actually built and sold. Whether a team wants deep integrations or a fully managed setup, the goal is the same: spend less time on infrastructure and more time on the product.

Our focus on audio is deliberate. Generic platforms optimize for scale across every industry. We optimize for depth where it actually matters. By concentrating on audio software, we can support the nuances that define successful long-term products, from licensing logic and upgrade paths to customer relationships that evolve over many years.

We believe the best infrastructure fades into the background. Pricing should be transparent, systems should scale without surprises, and teams should be able to focus on sound, performance, and user experience instead of operational glue.

Every part of the platform is informed by real workflows and real constraints. Our ambition is simple: to make selling and growing audio software feel as intentional and well-designed as building it.

Moonbase was co-founded in 2023 in Oslo. Tobias had spent years building custom licensing and commerce systems for audio software companies as a freelance developer. Hampus came from finance and business operations. Different countries, different backgrounds, but an immediate fit around the same conviction: this industry needed infrastructure built specifically for it.