🏋️Traditional Market

Publish a human hand-made digital product on starbeam.one's Traditional Market

Traditional Market

The traditional market is where human-made (non-computer-generated) digital products are published.

Quick Start: So You Want to Be an Artist?

So you want to be an artist? This is how you do so on starbeam.one:

Promote Your Profile

The first step is to get your user profile promoted!

Create a New Issuance

starbeam.one follows a publishing model. This means you issue one or more licenses for sale in one of our markets, and this "set" of licenses is called an issuance.

For our Traditional Market, you are given 100 Flares of inventory capacity to issue products in any form of price * quantity you prefer. As in the Standard Market, when you sell your capacity increases as a reward. By default, prices start at 10 Flares for a Traditional Market product. This allows for 5 Traditional Market items deployed at any time per artist, increasing the chance that one of them may sell.

Limits

Each market has limits and this is the Traditional Market's:

Minimum Price: 5 Flares

Maximum Price: 100 Flares

Maximum File Size: 50MB

What Exactly Are We Building?

It may be valuable to take a look at the anatomy of a product and see the different pieces of a product that is published to starbeam.one.

Definitions

To create an issuance, we must first create + complete the definition is that used to define it. The definition can be seen as the printing plates of your personal printing press. It can also be seen as the "draft" of your published work. You create your printing plates (definition) and they are then loaded into your printing press to create your content along with their associated digital licenses.

Steps to Create a New Definition

Press on the briefcase in your HUD (heads-up display) because you mean business
Press Start
Choose Featured
Enter in Title, Description, Identifier and Price. The title & description are outlined here. The identifier is for the URL that is used to host this content. For instance, in the above, it can be found at https://starbeam.one/market/publishers/twitter/mike_e_angelo/stake (Visit) where stake is the identifier
Provide your featured Image (i.e. the image you intend to sell)
Optional: The following are optional but add a lot of value to your customer's experience when they view your product after purchase. See this page for how these values are used.
1. Press Optional Values:
2. Enter in Welcome/Introduction text (this is shown above how it is used). This is not required but it adds a nice touch to your collectors when they view it.
3. Define your Cover and Background. These are not required but again add a nice touch for your users when they view your product. If you do not provide a cover/background one will be provided for you. Please see this article on how you can have AI generate cover + background for you.
  1. If you get this prompt while adding a cover, press Yes. This ensures the cover is used to display the product on the marketplace instead of the generated watermarked image.
4. Finally, there's the Preview image field: The preview image is only used throughout the starbeam.one marketplace to display your product and for your storefront. It is not used for your purchased product. Whenever your product is viewed in a catalog on starbeam.one this image is used. As an example, here is the front page, and in the green rectangle is the preview image for four different products: As such, the Preview Image is used to display the product throughout starbeam.one. As a convenience, this image is generated for you when you specify a Featured Image (step 5) by taking that image and applying a watermark to it.
All your properties are now assigned to your printing plate and are ready to be loaded into your personal printing press. Press Review + Publish...
Now you are in the final step! ALMOST THERE. After some seconds, a Preview button will be displayed to you to allow you to view exactly what a collector sees when they purchase a license and view your product. Press this and review the product to make sure it looks like what you expect it.
Assign Price & QuantityNote: For your very first issuance, quantity is set to a fixed value of 1 as you learn the system. After your first issuance you will be able to adjust quantity + price based on your capacity.
Double-check price + quantity to ensure it is as expected. If so, press Confirm & Publish!
Select OK on the confirmation
After some time, you will see the results of your issuance. Hopefully, it will be successful! 🤞