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The Plan

2026-03-11

For anyone who might have just started following along, I want to reiterate the purpose of this blog, and talk a little more about what my plan is for the coming months.

As I said in my early posts, this is just a place for quick updates. A stream of consciousness to let everyone get an idea of what I’m thinking about and working on, not a complete and detailed list of everything that I’m doing. It’s important for me to post regular updates so that everyone who contributed to the fundraiser can see that I am working every day, but there are many details that it doesn’t make sense to share here. For example, I’m going to show the first screenshots and recordings of Sailbrush in a video where I can do a better job showcasing the software.

In the announcement video, I estimated that I was one or two months away from having a beta version. That was about one month ago, and it may have been a little optimistic, but I’m making good progress. After giving it some thought, I think the best approach is to start with a small group of testers, and slowly expand to more users. This will let me catch any major bugs or usability issues before they get a chance to annoy too many people.

One of the systems that I’ll need to build to get the most out of a closed beta is a crash reporter. If Sailbrush crashes anywhere in the world, I want to be notified about it immediately so I can start working on a fix. Setting up a server to accept the crash reports will be pretty straightforward. I haven’t looked into what sort of problems might arise when trying to capture stack traces in the wild, but I’m hopeful that will also be pretty easy. I’ll probably start work on that in a couple weeks.