July 2024 Status Update

It'’s the first Tuesday (or Wednesday 😊) of the month. That means it’s time for the latest status update for starbeam.one! 🎨🚀✨ New Publishing Wizard Development Continues This is a shorter update, as really there has only been one item of interest to report on this past month: the New Publishing Wizard. 🧙‍♂️ I continue to develop the next version of the publishing model, which includes the New Publishing Wizard. This is a step-by-step wizard that guides the artist through the publishing process, and is a re-write for the entire previous experience. Continue reading

May 2024 Status Update

It’s the first week of the month. This means the latest monthly status update here at starbeam.one. ✨🚀 Accepted in LEAP’s Fund Your Acceleration Cohort #4 I am happy to announce that starbeam.one has been accepted into LEAP’s Fund Your Acceleration Cohort #4. This is a local program here in Lansing, funded by the state of Michigan. The program provides grants to pay for qualified services ranging from legal to marketing. Continue reading

March 2024 Status Update

It’s the first week of the month, and that historically means it’s time for our monthly status update here on starbeam.one! 🚀 Back on Schedule-ish I say historically as last month was a bit of an outlier. We’re back to the first week of the month here with our cadence, and what I have been doing is filming the standup on Tuesday and then writing the blog posts on the following day. Continue reading

February 2024 Status Update

Two Years Since Preview Announcement From the better late than never file, this update is a little behind this month. 😊😇 I have been busy working on our new environment and configurations for v1.0. With all the activity and effort to make this happen, I decided to round out the delay to this week as it signifies a full two years since announcing the preview on February 22, 2022. Difficult to believe and accept that this is the case! Continue reading

January 2024 Status Update

It’s the first week of the month, it is time for a monthly status update! 🚀 Happy New Year 🎉 Happy New Year out there to all! I hope this new year finds you healthy and that 2024 will be a prosperous year for us all. 🙏👍 Microsoft for Startups Level 4 I am happy to announce that we have been accepted into the fourth and final level of the Microsoft for Startups program. Continue reading

December 2023 Status Update

Hello to all out there, and I hope this finds your holiday season well. 🦌⛄🎅❄ It’s the first Tuesday of the month, it is time for a monthly status update! 🚀 Welcome to Beta III I am very happy to announce that today we have Beta III. This is mostly a quality release, addressing a lot of issues for administration and user account management. With this monthly update, I am going to take some time here and reflect where we are here after four years of development, with (at present) another year of runway to make something of it in a viable way. Continue reading

November 2023 Status Update

Wow it is already November, with roughly two more months left in 2023. 🤯 It is also the first Tuesday of the month so it’s time for a monthly update. ✨🚀 Back on Track, Sort of… I am very happy to announce the return of Lady Leah. This was a huge ordeal for us, as we had to deal with a lot of Twitter dysfunction to resolve this issue – which was that her account was suspended without reason or warning. Continue reading

October 2023 Status Update

Welcome to Beta II Welcome to the second beta of starbeam.one. This is a quality-based beta with certain key support features. Email Address Policy We now require email addresses for accounts. If you have an existing account and have already added+confirmed an email address, this has been automatically done for you. Otherwise, you will get a prompt to provide and verify an email address. New accounts will also be prompted. Continue reading

September 2023 Status Update

It’s the first full week of the month and that means it’s time for the latest starbeam.one status update! Slow Times on the Starship Things have gotten slow here, a little slower than anticipated! This was expected as I spent more time on developing key features for support and administration. However, the one incident we did not account for was having our premiere artist account inadvertently getting suspended by Twitter. Lady Leah is our top artist with over 10,000 followers and was our primary source of marketing and promotion. Continue reading

August 2023 Status Update

Believe it or not, we are in the first week of the month, which means the latest starbeam.one Status Update! 🚀 Welcome to Beta I At long last, after nearly four years of development, we are now official in beta quality. Truth be told, we probably have been in beta quality for quite some time now. Based on feedback from several members, I have made the switch to get this officially acknowledged recognized. Continue reading