ISO1200/Education: Changelog

2022

• June

  Released “E04|S01 – Compton Goes Pro: Portrait Photography Business Operations”

• May

  Released “E03|S01 – Compton Goes Pro: How To Make a Living as a Pro Photographer”
  Implemented faster CDN and Server Security with Clodflare and Cloudways

• April

  Released “E02|S01 – Compton Goes Pro: Phases of Compton’s Transition: “You Create Your Own Luck””

• March

  Released “Window Light Portraits” Collection
  Launched Video Podcast Show “Compton Goes Pro”

• February

  Released “Intro To Studio Portrait Photography” Master Class
  Roll out of the exclusive ISO1200 Ambassador Program

• January

  Released “Headshot Photography” Collection
  Scaled up server capacity with Cloudways

2021

• November 1st, 2021: We Are Live!

  Release Candidate V1.0 / 3 first topical collections / Another 6 collections are in the making / A Halloween Success!

• August to October > Platform Final Stage (+ Newsletter)

  Changing hosting company to achieve better speed and more effortless scalability down the road (global cloud) / Cache tuning, CDN, network tests / Finalizing the first 3 course collections we will launch with / Creation & implementation of our members’ newsletter “Inner Circle” / Adding new digital training partnerships for member discounts / Testing, testing, testing / Getting ready for launch (having an endless to-do list once the migration takes place) / Pushing the Release Candidate to the production server

• June & July > Onboarding Process ‘Contributor Core’

  The platform “mock-up” (aka Beta) is ready and fully functional. A bit slow still, but it spins / We are reaching out to contributors, asking for permissions / Finalizing core roster and content catalog we want to launch with / Back & forth, bothering quite a lot of people, but we get sign-offs from AMAZING folks / Also, some first partnerships with industry heavyweights & household names are getting finalized.

• March to May > Finalizing Beta

  Redefining editorial grid; filling-in all the pieces & missing “glue” / Planning “go-to-market”/launch campaign & rollout ideas / Testing, fixing, sweating, crisis, desperation, bouncing-back, all-nighters … – just about anything that’s connected to hardcore bootstrapping such a project 🙂

2020

• Fall 2020 to March 2021 > Bootstrapping a Dummy Platform (Alpha)

  We are building the platform. Piece by piece, function by function. Back to the drawing board, new ideas, scrapping former ideas,…

• April to August > Pre-Production Work

  Strategy, research, analyzes, concepting, talks, editorial schedules, business strategy, agreements, re-defining things, early dev page building (pre-alpha), test environment… – all the moving parts & good stuff happen.

• March 17th, 2020 > The Idea is Born

  After an intensive talk and extensive email-ping-pong, José Mata & Dan Hostettler agree to work on the idea of a new “photography learning platform.”