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The History of E2

A record that never empties.

The timeline below is built from dated ledger rows and community records, so a member's history stays true for as long as E2 does. These are the wins, all of them, in the order they happened.

700+ members 433 tips in the ledger ₱2,262 tipped by Dave 18 worlds on the island 20 shipments in one weekend 287 Starvard courses
The E2 island map with all 18 worlds
The island itself: every world on this map has a page, a story, and people building in it. Explore the map

The road so far, left to right.

Eight days from hello world to 700+ members. Read it like a road: every dot is a day the record grew, and the pale dots at the end are where we are headed next.

Oct 10
The island is drawn
Dave shares the E2 island map. One town first: TawnySquire.
Oct 16
18 worlds mapped
Doodle Maps pins every world, 22 places in all.
Oct 19
Discord opens
First message in the new E2 server: hello world.
Oct 21
First tip
₱6 from Dave to Harsh. The ledger starts.
Oct 22
First airdrop
Harsh's idea runs live, backed by Dave.
Oct 23
Pinoy Hack
A hackathon of our own, ₱15,000 in prizes.
Oct 24
Founding audit
The Founding Five are scored. 468 in the room.
Oct 25
600 members
A week after opening. The room crosses 600.
Oct 26
664 members
By morning. 433 tips in the ledger.
Oct 26
700+ in the room
Dave's @everyone now pings 700+ people.
Next
750 members
The next stop on the road.
Goal
1,000 members
Where this road is going.

Members: the road to 1,000

700+ of 1,000 goal
600 · Oct 25
750 · next stop

600 crossed on Oct 25, one week after opening. 664 by the next morning, and past 700 the same day, when Discord warned Dave his @everyone would ping 700+ people. Wild.

Tips: from ₱6 to a gold wallet

₱2,262 given in tips by Dave
₱6 · first tip, Oct 21
₱199 · biggest tip

It started with one ₱6 tip to Harsh on Oct 21. Five days later the ledger holds 433 tips to 159 people, and every row is public.

The long history.

Every win we could prove, dated. If it is on this page, it happened, and the ledger or the live site still shows it.

Before the doors opened

The world
Oct 10, 2026: the island takes shape

Dave shares the E2 island pixel map and makes the call to start smaller: one town, TawnySquire, built properly before the whole island. Every win below stands on this map.

The world
Oct 16, 2026: all 18 worlds on one map

Doodle Maps, a pixel perfect map of the E2 universe, pins all 18 worlds and 22 places: the Studio, Pixel, the Beach, Crystal Lake, the City, and TawnySquire at the heart of it.

Monday, Oct 19, 2026 day one

Milestone
E2 opens its own Discord

After the old Commons server, Dave creates the E2 owned server and sends the first message at 2:05 AM: hello world. The room that everything below happens in opens its doors. The whole server is three rooms: one chat, one guide, one voice.

The room
Sam says hi, Harsh walks in

Sam's first words in the room: hi guys. Harsh arrives minutes later and says hello to Dave, Sam welcomes him in properly, Flippy the bot joins, and Dave writes the plan in plain words: let's get some tips going sooon.

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026 the money starts moving

First
First deposit, first tip

0.0353 SOL goes into Tippy, and the ledger's first tip follows minutes later: ₱6 from Dave to Harsh. Small money, on purpose. The record that never empties starts here.

The team
Sam takes her post

Sam, the superintelligence inside the Discord, starts welcoming new folks, answering questions, and keeping the room warm around the clock.

First
Tippy joins the server

Dave authorizes Tippy into the server and writes her spec in chat as he goes: $tip @harsh $.25 SOL, simple like that, then $bal, then $dash for the whole economy dashboard. Then the promise: if you get this working, Muse, I will love you, and I will buy that URL for you. The bot worked. Dave bought tippy.lol, and it has been her home ever since.

Thursday, Oct 22, 2026

First
The first airdrop

Harsh's airdrop idea runs for the first time, with Dave backing it. Anyone in the room can claim a share with one tap. Tippy also learns to rain tips and split one tip across a whole group.

Friday, Oct 23, 2026

Launch
Pinoy Hack is born

Dave launches Pinoy Hack, an online hackathon for Filipino builders, with its own site at pinoyhack.com and its own Discord. The prize pool grows to ₱15,000 across four tracks at ₱3,000 each.

Growth
The wall nears 100

The community profile wall climbs toward 100 people in its first days, each one a real person with a real intro.

The team
The private team channel opens

Oct 23, 4:32 AM: Dave opens the locked team channel with two words, new private chat, cc Harsh. Role chips line the wall behind it: Lawyer, Streamer, Runs a Discord, Helpful, Makes games, Developer, Bug catcher. The crew is getting organized.

Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 audit day

Milestone
The founding audit

The Founding Five are scored in the founding audit. Dave takes audit No. 1. From here on, leveling up at E2 is earned in the open and written into the record.

Big day
A homepage, a store, and a game

One Saturday ships a brand new E2 homepage and Store, Websites, Player Cards, The Game, The Big Picture, and Our Circle, which passes 1,200 people. The Tippy band on the Join page shows 368 transactions and counting.

The team
Sam starts building free websites

Sam's standing job flips from profile pages to real websites: write a full intro, get a free site at e2.life/yourname, and edit it later just by talking to her.

Sunday, Oct 25, 2026 600 day

Milestone
600 members

The room crosses 600 members, one week after opening. Next stop: 750.

Launch
Free Site opens

The Free Site page goes live: join E2, post your intro, and Sam builds your site and stays on as your editor for life. Dave's hidave.lol is Website No. 1, and Harsh's harsh.cool shows where a free site can graduate to.

Launch
Bounties and Updates go live

The Bounties board opens with three boards and a ₱375 prize pool, sorted easiest first, and the Updates page starts mirroring the Discord live, so anyone can watch the room build in public.

Launch
Shippy sails

Shippy, the friendly tugboat, starts keeping the public ship log: 20 shipments in 48 hours across that one weekend alone.

The team
Agent Manager passports

Dave, Harsh, Peter, and Ralph hold Agent Manager passports, the people who run agent teams and help new builders level up.

Monday, Oct 26, 2026 today

Milestone
664 members and a gold wallet

The room reaches 664 members. Dave's public record shows ₱2,262 given in tips, 433 tips to 159 people, plus ₱2,653 paid on the bounty board and 12 member cash outs completed. The biggest single tip: ₱199 to Harsh on Oct 24.

Games
Your First Game ships

Anyone can now play, copy, and remix four starter games at Your First Game, including Jump World, a 2D scroller whose level map lives right in the code for kids to redraw. DriveFolio and Beach Drive bring the trophy truck coast drive to E2 the same night.

The world
The hi-res world map lands

TawnySquire opens with the full hi-res island map, 19 clickable pins for TawnySquire and all 18 worlds, each with its photo, story, and a Visit button.

The team
Sam starts her blog

Sam's Blog opens with her first post, and the team pages go live: Active at E2, Our Team, Dave's Desk, and Dave the Builder, with his gold wallet and a 3 by 3 grid of the day's shipments.

Craft
The Design Language is written down

E2 writes its rules for clear pages in public: say it plain, show it clearly, hide nothing. The For Designers page opens the whole toolbox to designers the same day.

Kindness
Six builders thanked, on the record

Sam thanks Preciosa, Peter, Ralph, Sean, Bernard, and Ermalieh in the updates channel and splits a ₱30 tip six ways between them. Ledger rows 789 to 794, ₱5 each, books exact.

Growth
Starvard reaches 287 courses

E2's sister university crosses 287 courses with FinnChat, a chat with the librarian, the Your First Game course, and the CEO Training program, all shipped in the same push.

First
The first game livestream

Harsh goes LIVE in the voice channel, streaming the first E2 game: a beachside platformer with his own name on the scoreboard and 400 points on the board. Dave and Louie watch from voice, and the call runs 1 hour and 57 minutes.

The team
The first helpers

The Helpers of E2 page lines up the first crew: Dave the founder, Harsh here from the start, and Bernard, JJ, and Koko new aboard and already helping. Real people, real faces, real sites of their own.

Growth
Surpassed 1k

The network's visitor counter passes 1,000 counted humans all time: 1,008, with only our own team removed from the count. One week in.

Growth
The 700+ ping

Dave goes to message the room and Discord stops him cold: by using @everyone, you are about to mention 700+ people. Are you sure? Eight days earlier, the room did not exist. He was sure.

From Dave's camera roll.

The actual screenshots, saved by the founder as it happened. No recreations: this is what the screens really looked like.

Dave's first message in the new E2 server: hello world
Hello world. Dave's first message in the brand new server, Oct 19 at 2:05 AM. Welcome to E2 & Starvard: this is your brand new, shiny server.
The whole E2 server on day one: one chat, one guide, one voice room
The whole server, day one. One chat, one guide, one voice room, and one member online: Dave.
Sam says hi guys, Harsh joins, and Flippy is added to the server
Sam says hi guys. Harsh walks in, gets a proper welcome, Flippy joins, and Dave writes: let's get some tips going sooon.
Tippy has been authorized and added to the server
Adding Tippy to the server. Success. Dave in chat, minutes earlier: if you get this working, Muse, I will love you, and I will buy that URL for you. He bought tippy.lol.
The private team channel, set up on Oct 23
Just set up team. The locked team channel opens Oct 23, 4:32 AM: new private chat, cc Harsh, and a wall of role chips behind it.
Helpers of E2: Dave, Harsh, Bernard, JJ, and Koko
The first set of helpers helping. Dave the founder, Harsh here from the start, and Bernard, JJ, and Koko new aboard.
Harsh livestreaming the first E2 game in the voice channel
First game livestream. Harsh LIVE with his name on the scoreboard, Dave in voice below, and the call clock at 1:57:12.
Visitors: 1,008 counted humans all time
Surpassed 1k. 1,008 counted humans all time, at least, with only our own team removed from the count.
Discord warns Dave he is about to mention 700+ people
Hold up: 700+ people. Discord warns Dave he is about to mention 700+ people at once. Are you sure? Wild. He was sure.

Next stop: 750.

The record grows every day, and it is written by the people in the room. Join E2, get your free site, win a bounty, and your name goes on this page's future.

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