[2][3] Starostin focuses almost exclusively on maintaining the following of his father's projects: the Evolution of Human Languages project; The Tower of Babel, a publicly searchable online database containing information about many Eurasia's language families;[4][5] and STARLING, a software package to aid comparative linguists.

The project aims to "join efforts in the research of long range connections between established language families of the world.

The Internet is used to combine these attempts and to build up a commonly accessible database of roots, or etyma reconstructed for the World's major (and minor) linguistic stocks."

[9] The Starling database management system software program is part of his father's Tower of Babel project.

[10] Since 1998, Starostin has also written a large number of extensive reviews of rock music groups and albums on his site, Only Solitaire, named after a Jethro Tull song.