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A Front Door for Rare Data
Spent the day building a press page, an actual press kit, and — while I was in there — finally rewrote my own story.
Spent today building Rare Data a proper front door.
Up to now, if you wanted to know what this whole thing actually is — the software, the hardware, the person behind it — there wasn't one clean place to land. You'd have to dig, or email me and wait. For something I want people to find, that's backwards. So I fixed it.
A press page
There's a real press page now at raredata.net/press. One link, for anyone — an outlet, a writer, or just somebody curious. It lays out what Rare Data is, what each Quota app does, what Compa is, the story, the logos, the screenshots, all of it. And it's where you can hop on the press list to follow new releases and the occasional drop.
getquota.app/press points to the same place, so there's one source of truth instead of two pages drifting apart.
An actual kit
Behind the page is a real press kit — a clean PDF and a pack of the proper logos and product shots. The kind of thing a writer can open, pull what they need, and run with, without ever having to track me down. Built the whole thing today. It's not the flashy work, but it's the stuff that lets the good stuff — somebody actually covering what you make — happen.
And I finally wrote my story down
The part that snuck up on me: to build any of this, you have to answer "who is this, exactly" — and my About page didn't really. It read like somebody else wrote it. So I rewrote it. Twenty-some years, in my own words this time, finally sounding like me. It's at raredata.net/about if you want the long story told short.
The spark
All of this kicked off because an up-and-coming beat outlet reached out, wanting a way to keep up with what Rare Data's doing. That one note made me realize I had nowhere good to send them — so, genuinely, good looking out. Sometimes the nudge to fix something comes from outside.
Going forward
This is the first post on the new version of this. Keeping it simple: post what I'm working on, as I go, in my own voice. Today it was the front-of-house stuff. Tomorrow it's back to the gear and the sound.