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Changelog

Changelog

Every notable change to Startica, newest first.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

  • Download page at mystartica.com/download with the latest release’s installers for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux, and your system’s highlighted.
  • Release notes with download links: each GitHub release now lists its installers with links and sizes, install notes while builds are unsigned, and the changelog entry. 0.x releases are marked beta.

0.0.1 - 2026-10-14

First public release. Installers are unsigned for now, so the documented way in is building from source.

Added

  • Desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux: an Electron shell with a local Next.js server and one SQLite file per install. No account, no Startica server and no telemetry. The server listens on 127.0.0.1 only and requires a per-launch session token; API keys, OAuth tokens and connection credentials are encrypted with the OS keychain. Tray icon, launch at login, and close-to-tray so scheduled jobs keep running.
  • Four modules in one app: Marketing, SEO & GEO, Accessibility and Security share your products, your sites and one scan per site.
  • Dashboard, Today and Roadmap: a home page that sums up every module, a short daily list of moves, and an AI-written growth roadmap built from playbooks and re-planned weekly. A background status indicator shows what’s running and lets you stop it.
  • Marketing:
    • Intel: researches your site and market and writes a product brief, personas, competitors, keywords and communities to watch, all editable.
    • Inbox: finds conversations on Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, Mastodon, Discourse forums and, with your own API token, X; or reads a pasted link. Scores them for fit and drafts replies in your voice.
    • Assisted posting (beta): opens the site in a separate window with your reply filled in and waits for you to press the site’s own button, then saves the link. Startica never posts on its own.
    • Content Studio: a voice bank, posts, threads, articles and email sequences per channel.
    • Ads: campaign plans and copy for Google, Meta and Reddit, AI-drawn creatives in every size, hand-off files, results from the spend you enter, and scale, keep, rewrite or stop suggestions. Startica never launches ads or spends money.
    • Analytics: Google Analytics 4 or Umami, Stripe, and your product’s database through a read-only login you create, with per-reply and per-piece attribution through UTM links.
    • Landing page, onboarding, SEO and GEO audits.
  • SEO & GEO: site health checks for search engines and AI crawlers on the shared scan; clicks, queries and positions from Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools; AI visibility, which asks an AI assistant your customers’ questions and shows whether it recommends you; one ranked list of opportunities with drafts; agent readiness; and the sites AI answers cite.
  • Accessibility: crawls your sites in a real browser and checks every page against WCAG 2.2 A and AA with axe-core; groups issues across pages and ranks what to fix first; AI fix suggestions and an alt text review; a manual checklist, a printable report, an accessibility statement and an ACR draft; spelling, readability, content rules, links and PDFs. Never claims a site is compliant.
  • Security: proves a site is yours first, then checks HTTPS, certificates, security headers, cookies, exposed files, SPF and DMARC on every scan; monitors subdomains, certificates, look-alike domains, third-party scripts and known-vulnerable libraries; a report mapped to OWASP Top 10; AI help, report import and a disclosure kit. Defensive checks only.
  • Issues in GitHub or GitLab: open an issue for an accessibility or security problem with your own token; Startica closes it when the problem is fixed.
  • Bring your own AI: Claude or OpenAI, with task-to-model routing, a monthly budget cap, and every call logged with tokens and cost.
  • First-run setup and demo mode: a three-step welcome and a Getting started checklist, and a demo with the fictional Fieldnote product in a separate data folder.
  • Releases and updates: a GitHub Actions workflow builds macOS, Windows and Linux installers into a draft release (signed and notarized once certificates are set up), and the installed app updates itself from GitHub Releases.
  • Developer tooling: yarn seed:demo, eval sets for the scorer, Accessibility and Security, browser and desktop smoke tests, and CI on macOS and Linux.