Every screen you own, one price, forever. Self-hosted digital signage.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Yodeck, at $8/screen/mo — roughly $96 a year, every year. Signboard does the job for a one-time $129 — running on infrastructure you control.
Images, videos (mp4/webm), web-page URLs, and announcement slides built from 5 layout templates — a "Closed Friday" slide takes 20 seconds, no designer required.
For freelancers, content library pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $129, not metered per month.
Ordered items with per-entry duration overrides, drag-to-reorder, cut/fade transitions, in-browser preview.
For freelancers, playlists pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $129, not metered per month.
The player page shows a code; type it into the dashboard, name the screen, assign a playlist. Any smart-TV browser, a Pi in kiosk Chromium, or an old tablet all work — no player app.
For freelancers, 6-character pairing pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $129, not metered per month.
One-time $129 for the packaged Windows installer plus a guided VPS deploy — lifetime updates, unlimited screens.
Any TV browser, Pi or tablet shows a 6-character pairing code. Type it into the dashboard, name the screen, assign a playlist. No app installs, no per-device accounts.
Upload media, drag to reorder, set daypart rules per screen — edits push to players instantly over WebSocket.
Signboard is $129, once. Yodeck at $8/screen/mo — roughly $96 a year, every year. On a single screen Signboard pays for itself vs Yodeck in about 16 months. On five screens, 3 months — then it's $0 a year, forever.
On a single screen Signboard pays for itself vs Yodeck in about 16 months. On five screens, 3 months — then it's $0 a year, forever. Signboard costs $129 once; Yodeck charges $8/screen/mo — about $96 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/signboard-mvp. The $129 buys the packaged installer, guided VPS deploy and lifetime updates instead of doing the docker compose setup yourself.
Anything with a browser: a smart TV's built-in browser, a $35 Raspberry Pi in kiosk Chromium, an old Fire tablet. The player is plain ES2017-safe JavaScript built for ancient smart-TV browsers, with double-buffered swaps to avoid flicker.