Building a tool to drop orphan keys

I am thinking of letting the key owner decides whether to allow public users or Steam-only users to view.
This way the tool can also be used for Non-Steam keys.

Public users will always be forced to solve a CAPTCHA.

Well, that will make the thing too complicated IMO...

lol

Gamecode seems to maintain exchange like the thing you mention about Chrono, I've never used it though.

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I do own a reseller hosting account, so the server cost will be sponsored by me.
Of course I will start with only for personal use, and later only grant limited access to public users.

If my server cannot handle the traffic, then only I will consider switching to cloud servers. But that is a concern for the future, not now.
I don't think the traffic will be THAT huge that fast, unless somebody sabotage me by DDoS-ing.

Seems like a Steam key tool for game devs.
My intention is to drop orphan keys, not to track key activations.

Thanks for sharing though.

I've seen this one before, I think OrlyGift used it at some point..

No idea... They just, died.

there is the anti ninja thread if you don't want ninjas

I had a go at something similar a few years ago, on my old personal site

basically you pasted in the key in whatever format
and the script would select 2 random characters from it and replace all instances of those characters with characters such as &$#!, and then display the altered key either with the clue # = j, %=4 or a worded clue such as % = the square root of 16.

But then unfortunately I started to overthink it and it got unwieldy and then trying to work out how to make it trustworthy as in people don't know me so why would they trust that i am not stealing the keys they put in.

And then got sick and forgot about it and wiped server as was moving host, keep thinking I'll give it another go but never quite get to it

Yes lol, kinda. Long long long time ago, SG didn't allow creating GAs for "free games".
So I was ninja proofing my extra Steam keys from past bundles, and find it very tedious.

Now that it has been changed, I lost the motivation to continue this project.
Also, I redo-ed many times due to technology change (from MVC server-side render, to jQuery Ajax, to SPA React), and now it rests in my development-hell.

You're welcomed to start one!