Vol. 5, Friday 10.18.19
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Have you met our creatives?
We have an amazing team - (full stop). I have been and am incredibly fortunate to have the privilege to work along side their passion, expertise, and creativity. I am humbled and grateful for their willingness to share these gifts.
Here’s to the present and to the successful years to come! Oh, did you know we are completely distributed across the world? Every time zone in the States (including Hawaii) is represented along with Vietnam and more.
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The Broken Bottle Updates
We hit two big milestones over these last two weeks!
1). Eli has been working hard on getting our backend and the other intricacies wrapped. We have successfully added our Google Firebase integration! That means people can actually create accounts etc.- so cool!
2). Mani, who helped us last year in our Alpha, stepped in to the spot light again and successfully implemented some of our main User Interface adjustments (such as our Choice Screen seen above). We wanted to make sure we had a couple things polished before you all get your hands on the beta :)
Thanks for the awesome work Mani!
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Question for you: "Legendary Kinship Jams"
We have had this idea cooking for a while and thought we’d run it past you first. Below is the summary and the link to the FAQs and other details.
Purpose:
Bring diverse creatives from around the universe together to create and tell a story across all mediums and have a blast. Additionally, we hope that in the process the individuals will also create lasting relationships that can inspire and endure.
How it might work:
1. Every (frequency to be decided) we will hold a Legendary Kinship Jam (Working title).
2. Once the Kinship is opened, creatives can submit his or her works. It’s "first come first served" to become the Polestar.
3. The works are reviewed by the Legendary team.
4. The Polestar is selected.
5. Other creatives sign up to contribute to the Kinship’s Polestar.
6. After the duration of the Kinship Jam, the creations are collectively published for the world to see.
For example: Say I am the first to submit something and it happens to be a photograph. I am selected to be the polestar and others start entering pieces in their mediums to add to the story. From music to spreadsheets. At the end of the jam the collaborative "story" and the creatives are displayed for all enjoy.
I’d love to hear what ideas you all might have!
It would be fun to refine this, grow it, and eventually have live collaborative events with some sponsors. Food for thought.
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The secret to bootstrapping a startup
Some have asked me…How in the world do you make money to bootstrap and why?? That’s a long answer so I will focus on the first part in this Newsletter.
Currently Visa and Master Card have been generously funding us (I was sitting in a well lit coffee shop in Austin today and laughed out loud typing that). We have been fortunate to have the support from our supporters to pay the minimum monthly payments. This leads again to the tremendous thank you to the help our supporters have provided. If you want to be involved and showcased let me know or click below.
Something I found interesting:
Oh Snap buys Play Canvas
I thought this was interesting: Business Insider reported that Snap Chat bought Play Canvas.
Some context:
Play Canvas is a cloud based HTML5 game engine tech firm (founded in 2011). It allows creators to (even Disney and Nickelodeon have used the platform) to create 3D rich environments and is optimized to run on low-power devices.
The believed low hanging use of the tool would be to integrate the technology into Snap Chat’s Lens Studio product where developers can build their own AR Lens effects.
Do they plan to expand into the entertainment industry? If so, how does that make you feel?
More info from Tech Crunch:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/snap-reportedly-buys-its-own-3d-game-engine/
Our progress is brought to you by the help of those above ^^^
Thanks all!