I am vaguely familiar with Light Table and Eve (coincidentally my college roommate grew up with Chris but I don't know him personally). It's been awhile but my recollection is Light Table/Eve had a more targeted set of selling points -- a killer IDE with some slick features I hadn't seen before and then a new language designed to be written as prose.

Regarding Beads: time travel is definitely a cool feature. Most languages have some kind of step debugger but the experience can often be improved. Having a built in graph DB could be an interesting selling point too. I'd love to see a quick example of what having a graph DB built into the language enables. For instance, this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315018 cites a Neo4j demo that, in a few lines of code, shows me something their product does "better" than SQL. I would love to see, on the Beads front page, a small (5 lines max?) code blurb that shows me something Beads can do harder, better, faster, stronger (or whatever ;) ) than other languages. I don't quite know what that is, but I imagine the author has some thoughts :).

Happy to connect more if you'd like.