Helping small businesses survive & thrive.
Creating a more free & fun web.
Lighting a digital pathway to the stars.
Starscape Digital is a technology agency providing services and developing products aligned with human flourishing.
It is currently just the container for my personal consulting work, to evolve into a full—yet lean—company with three main purposes:
- Assist small businesses, and provide work experience for nascent developers, by connecting the two — with guided training and mentorship for the latter.
- Develop beautiful, innovative and fun applications.
- Current technologies: React.js, Next.js, React-Native, Typescript, TailwindCSS, Three.js, web3.js and more // Vercel, Webflow, WordPress
- Evangelize open-source software for public good, encouraging fresh and seasoned developers to contribute in collectively improving the world.
- Heavily inspired by Greenpilled and other sources.
Another meta objective: exploring the emerging paradigm of work, which heavily emphasizes individual freelancing and consulting, in a model akin to guilds of yore. One sub-idea is that individuals may work in multiple guilds, receiving most of the revenue generated for their work with only administrative costs and positive reputation given to the brand organization. This better facilitates the acquisition of skill-appropriate work for individual developers and has fun gamification potential.
There are several unique product ideas I’ve floated around for too long, which I would love to develop with funding and collaboration.
- Codename Canopy, next generation social media platform, including an IRL “synchronicity machine” and other innovations
- Codename CleanCity, gamifying environmental sustainability initiatives
- Codename Network Activism, “middleware” between social media platforms and activism-gamification platforms
- NFT-gated immersive web experiences
website work-in-progress: starscape.digital
Bruce Starlove, Creator
current projects:
- New Paradigm Navigators (NPN)
- website (including accounts with subscriptions), social media content, newsletters, podcasts, team leadership, annual online event planning and moderation
- The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN)
- Tech hosting and moderation for 50+ Zoom webinars, co-founded subgroup NPN ^
- SEEDSdot
- Website platform with in-person and online event scheduling and VOD content (including accounts with subscriptions), media content, experimenting with immersive virtual reality experiences
- Magis Guild
- Website development consulting, design & strategy, client outreach
- Solo design & development
- Some experience listed below, partially contained within Starscape Digital
other projects in the works:
- Starscape Earth
- Promoting regenerative organizations and initiatives, encouraging grassroots participation in a “butterfly effect” toward a better world
- Starscape Smoothies
- a cosmic-themed smoothie shop and community hub where people can connect, learn and grow; emphasis on health, sustainability, community, education, technological and social system innovation
- StarScape World
- a fantasy epic of my own imagination, 10+ years of passive ideation, to embed my experience and contemplation on reality & human condition in multimedia forms including video games
- Hellscape Digital
- website for best friend’s music collective
- LavitzStar
- music & art project
- Stars And Capes
- personal cloak & jewelry shop
- Starscape Store
- selling Starscape branded and partner products, including Augury
- SaveTheYouth
- Splashes of Unseen Art
- TerraVista
current or recent clients:
- Arnold’s Pub KY
- website, social media, physical tech, business strategy
- Esperanza NKY
- event planning, print material design, A/V tech operation
- sohzasister
- website, tech support
- Complete Appliance Service
- website, social media, strategy [in-development]
- A Roguish Highlander
- complete overall of website and technology [in-development]
- Some other small client projects including for OutReels Cincinnati, Cate Sword, Davidson Media (LoopTV), Cobra Defense Cincinnati
previous dev company experience:
- West Cary Group, Software Engineer, 2020
- Authentic, Software Engineer, 2018-2019
- Ippon Technologies USA, Software Engineer, 2017-2018
- AuthX, Technical Intern -> Associate Developer, 2015-2016
- Royall & Company, Unit Tester, 2015
- AMC Technology, Software Engineering Intern, 2014
- VCU School of Engineering, Webmaster, 2013-2015
open source projects contributed to or desiring to:
- OpenLitterMap (web, react-native)
- Proton
- OnlyOffice
- NextCloud
- Vibecafe
- Aavegotchi
- [the list goes on]
other work and history:
- Greenpilled audiobook (volunteered contribution, soon)
- Co-founded and managed RamHacks hackathon at VCU, 2014-2016
- Co-founded and/or leadership in student organizations
- Ram-Development
- Association for Computing Machinery – VCU Student Chapter
- Student Advisory Board, VCU Computer Science
- Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity – VCU Chapter
- Future Business Leaders of America – Advanced Technology Center (Virginia Beach, VA)
- Competed in Local, State and National competition for “Business Game & Simulation” category
- Game Development Club – Frank W. Cox High School
- Libertarian Party Club – Frank W. Cox High School
- Other student organization participation
- VCU Student Linux User Group
- Hampton Roads .NET User Group
- Developed website for my fraternity’s local chapter (which was recognized as the best chapter in the nation for several years)
- Developed website for my high school calculus teacher’s class
- Hosted two free workshops on cryptocurrency and risk management, 2021
some abandoned projects:
- Provenance Systems
- explored innovative web3/blockchain ideas in public from Consensus 2022 to several twitter live spaces in the Cardano ecosystem
- Global Coralition’s Coral Cloud/Quest, sought to build an interactive, story-telling and fundraising web3 platform through a DAO fellowship; later connected GC with CoralConnect / NotEssential
- Lavitz (gaming)
- created a beautiful website leading into Classic WoW launch in August 2019, with several guides, videos and livestreams. Abandoned because of lack of confidence and hyperfocus into guild management and private theorycrafting. I did create Weakauras with over 30,000 views/downloads https://wago.io/p/Lavitz
- Canvas WoW addon, now part of ERT/Method Tools
- Starscape publishing studio
other organizations I wish to promote, through Starscape Earth / myself:
- Gitcoin Grants
- LetsGrowLive
- Mycelium Hub
- Protopia Convergence
- GaiaProtection
- EdgeCity
- Vitalia
- Social Layer
- Cardano4Climate
- Humanity Rising
- OtherNetworks
- EarthStock
- ICRL
- Global Coralition
- CoralConnect, NotEssential
- Diamante Bridge Collective
- CollabBerry
- FincaSolantis
some events attended: