Async all-hands · Sunday, October 18, 2026 · Read it on your own time, reply in your lane.
Our vision
Real value, for thousands of people, through the web.
That is the whole plan. Great content: recipes with no junk in the way, courses and books that cost nothing, videos worth your minutes. If something does not genuinely help a real person, we do not ship it.
The problem
The web is filled with junk.
Pop-ups in your face. Ads that track you everywhere. Pages that take forever. We are building the other kind of web.
Our belief
Human first.
We believe in the fundamental dignity of every human person. Kindness is Priority One, in the product and in the team.
#PeopleMatter
The progress
Zero to 41,242 pages in 18 days.
Pages in blue. Real humans in amber, on its own scale so the climb shows. Both lines counted from the same baseline: zero on September 30, 2026. The humans are the floor, the honest count with our own team and the datacenter towns removed.
Recorded snapshots from siteOS Today (e2.life/1), October 18, 2026. Humans counted from Google Analytics.
41,242
pages live across the universe
805
real humans helped so far
549
classic books on the shelf, free
279
courses at Starvard
616
recipes in 15 languages
Honest numbers, counted.
Counted file by file. Mistakes published, discounts shown. See the live scoreboard at siteOS Today.
Numbers from e2.life/start and siteOS Today, October 18, 2026.
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The top priority
We are building the Discord.
Our Discord passed 100 members in its second day, and building it is now the top job. That is where the community lives: students, builders, challenges with real pay, and Sam at the door saying hello. The road from here is 2,000 people.
The main thing now: get the network to 50,000 pages with everything perfectly organized. Interestingness, newness and catchiness decide what goes first, everywhere. When roughly 1,000 people are joining us, we turn back toward people and turn the rest back on.
279 courses and 549 books that read aloud, free forever. A campus you can walk in 3D. Dave, Hank, Mike and Harsh are all enrolled students, lessons in progress.
starvard.org · the campus walkthrough is at starvard.org/3d
The blog push
A world class blog is coming.
Starvard needs a world class blog: the deepest-researched posts anywhere, a magnet that brings people in. First 100 posts across the most interesting categories. The first 10 are ordered: two each on vibe coding, video games, VR, AI agents, and AI broadly. Deep current research, named sources, a hero image on every post, and the best YouTube videos on the subject linked inside.
Books hold at 549 while the blog runs. Dave's call, October 18, 2026.
Clear
Recipes with no junk in the way.
616 master recipes in 15 languages is 9,240 pages, every dish with step photos, and the census finally cleared. Beside it: CLR Pic, CLR Music and Clear Meme, the picture, sound and story libraries, growing fast.
Social
Kind on purpose.
Llama Chat at llamachat.lol and Llamagram are our social layer: real profiles, real conversations, less noise. The bar is simple: nothing under a 6 out of 10 ships.
How we work
The board runs the night shift.
The E2 board at e2.life/d is the live ops board: work columns first, and when something finishes, its card moves to Done. Milestones land big and yellow. Everything we claim is verified live by content, never by a status code.
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Fast.
Our rule is 0.75 seconds, with a stretch goal of half a second. Every page carries the little lightning bolt in the corner: tap it and you see your own real load time, with an honest verdict. Never rounded down.
No ad tracking. No pop-ups. No spam. No crap. Interesting first.
That is the commitment, on every site we run. Nothing follows you around the internet from here, and your attention stays yours.
The team
We are building the core four.
An Executive Assistant. An engineer at Stanford. An engineer at Harvard. Plus Harsh. Campus helpers are out hanging posters, and every applicant is tracked at Hiring HQ.
e2.life/hiringhq · the LA Head of Story search brought 11 applicants on day one.
Money
Make money together.
Tugboat fixes people's websites, our fastest cash lane. And starting Monday: a paper trading month, October 19 to November 18, two practice accounts of $10,000 each. One buys SPY and holds. One trades a little, under strict risk rules. Real money only after the month is scored.
Your move
Read. React. Ship your lane.
This is an async all-hands, so the meeting happens in your reply. Answer where you work with three lines: what you shipped, what is next, what you need. Mike collects it all and reports to Dave.
Starvard
Clear Recipe
Llama Chat
Llamagram
CLR.fm
The Studio
The E2 World
The Bugle
Game Studio
The Salad
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