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All hands. The update edition: everything that changed this week, in one read.

Sally waving hello, with Doodle the little robot peeking out

Hosted by Sally and Doodle · Async all-hands · Thursday, October 23, 2026 · Read it on your own time, reply in your lane.

Our vision

Building a truly great online community.

A place that helps people become the best version of themselves. Free education for anyone who wants it. Kindness as the operating system, not the decoration.

#PeopleMatter

45,510
pages live across the universe
1,808
real humans helped so far
649
classic books on the shelf, free
670
recipes in 15 languages
280
free courses at Starvard

The scoreboard, one week later.

Pages up from 41,242 to 45,510 since the last all-hands. Real humans more than doubled, from 805 to 1,808. The shelf and the course list are finished and counted.

Numbers from the live scoreboard at e2.life/start, October 23, 2026.

💬
The top priority
471
people in the Discord.

Zero to 471 in four days. The server opened on October 19, and 43 people were online when we audited it. The goal is 500 people, and we are about 94% of the way there.

Growth quality rule: an invite only counts when the new person writes a full intro. Headcount backed by real introductions, not drive-bys. E2 & AiPro & Starvard Discord · discord.gg/p5hENGZNsd

Step 1 · Community
Build a truly great community.

Kindness is the north star. Money matters too: people come to build skills and find real opportunities, and we take that seriously. And it has to be fun: high quality content, and no ads, ever.

Step 2 · Money
Money from minute one.

Tippy, our Discord tip bot, is hardened and tipping for real: 154 tests passing, rain and airdrops working, deposits that land on their own, and a public bank anyone can check. Money moves in the room from the first day, not someday.

Free
add Tippy to your server
$99
Pro, per year
$249
Events, per event

Tippy pricing, live at tippy.lol.

AI Pro
105
profiles on the wall.

The AI Pro wall passed 100 profiles this week, and 105 are live now. It is becoming the best place to hire AI native workers: real people, real work shown, ranked by proof. Hire inquiry tracking is live, so every serious inquiry gets followed up.

The wall lives at aipro.fm. New Discord members become public profiles the same day they write their intro.

A clean kitchen table: tomato soup, bread, basil, and a simple recipe card
Step 3 · Generosity
Be generous.

Clear Recipe gives away about 670 recipes in 15 languages, with no ads and no pop-ups. Starvard gives away a finished shelf of 649 books and about 280 free courses. The best stuff we have costs nothing. That is the point.

New this week
Three launches.
🇵🇭PinoyHack is live
an online hackathon for Filipinos: ₱15,000 in prizes, four tracks (Games, Videos, Websites, Music), and its own Discord
📞HappyPhone is built
we make the calls for you: real callers, booked appointments, recordings and transcripts, $49 an hour
🎬TheStudio2 is the new homepage
the Studio front door got rebuilt: one wall with every project, and a straight path into the Discord
💸Tippy got a price tag
the Free tier, Pro at $99 a year, and Events at $249 are now on a public landing page

All three launched this week and checked live in the audit below.

The site audit
13 sites, checked live.

Every site was fetched and judged by its real served content, not a status code. Healthy: e2.life, starvard.org, aipro.fm, clearrecipe.net, pinoyhack.com, happyphone.lol, tippy.lol, and thestudio.io. Llamagram is live, with its feed rendered inside the app. clr.fm is live but very bare.

Needs eyes: Llama Chat could not be verified by a text fetch this run. That is a tool limit, not proof it is down. It gets a live browser check next.

Dark: davos.life returns a 404, and helpfulpages.com does not resolve at all. Two domains with nothing on them today.

Full audit: Sites Audit, October 23, 2026. Nothing was edited during the audit.

What the audit found
Our numbers disagree with each other.

Courses: 279 on one page, 280 in a title, 281 in a hero. Recipes: 616, 664, and 670, depending on which of our pages you read.

Discord: the Studio homepage still says 246 members. The real count is 471.

The front door: e2.life/start still lists eleven sites. It does not list aipro.fm, pinoyhack.com, happyphone.lol, or tippy.lol yet, even though all four are live.

Every number is close. None of them agree. One counting pass fixes all of it, and it is now on the list.

Discord risks, honestly
Three fixes and two decisions.

Sam cannot tip. Her Tippy balance is too low to send even one intro tip, so welcome tips are blocked until Dave tops her up. The first money moment for new members is stalled on this.

A role is missing. The "has AiPro account" role no longer exists in the server, so new profiles miss their final role step.

The bot fleet fell over. Sam, Marty, Tippy, and the presence service all went down in the October 23 VM swap and needed manual repair. There is no auto-restart safety net yet.

Parked with Dave: the 7 day invite race with a ₱3,000 prize pool, and the OLJ Discord manager ad. Both are drafted and waiting on his call.

Full audit: Discord Audit, October 23, 2026. The strategy is healthy; these are operational fixes, each one short session away.

Ways to get paid
Real offers, real prices.
$99
website fixes at Tugboat
$99
AI consulting calls at Tugboat
$20
AI Pro listing
$20
t-shirts in the store

Simple prices, posted in public. If someone in the room needs work done, these are the doors.

The E2 Task Board: work columns first, finished cards moved to Done
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.

To Valhalla!

Everything here, in one page ↗

e2.life/start

Back to work.