This is the first of (hopefully many) updates regarding the Vesper project. I was originally going to try to stand this project up on Kickstarter, but their platform requirements had artificial lifecycle and staging rules which didn’t really match what I want this project to be about, so I decided to build it as a dedicated project website instead with its own estore. I started building this website on 7 August 2026, and it’s taken me about two weeks to learn the stack and deployment pipelines. It has been a trial by fire.