Quality over speed
Interesting, new, and catchy beats bulk, every time. If it is merely good, we redo it until it is great.
Our vision: the next five years
A small town that makes things.
If we're lucky, and we work hard, this is where E2 goes: thousands and thousands of creatives in one kind community, making great work, helping each other level up.
923 members today, and counting. This page is the road from here to there.
If we're lucky
A tremendous amount of great work.
Not content. Work. Things that did not exist before, made well, by people who got better making them here.
A really good musical.
Short Bus: a cast of kids the world wrote off, a bus, and songs that say otherwise. Written and sung here first, then staged in a real theater and filmed, so anyone anywhere can watch it.
Meet the cast ↗
As much good music as we can make.
Two albums first: the Short Bus cast recording and First Light, the Dlaney debut. Real instruments, real voices, pressed on vinyl. Then the next ones, and the ones after that, from us and from artists we develop the right way.
Hear where it starts ↗
Films and games, premiered on our own sites.
A steady slate of short films and member-made games, shown first on our video site and in our arcade, where the audience is the community that helped make them.
Watch the films ↗The sites that carry it
Great design, everywhere we show up.
Four honest sites, each the obvious place for one thing, all of them recognizably ours: clear in three seconds, beautiful on purpose, fast.
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Clear Recipe
The recipe, the whole recipe, and nothing but the recipe. No life story, no popups, just dinner.
Cook something ↗ đStarvard
A real free university: courses and a library that people actually finish, taught kindly.
Take a course ↗ đšī¸Open Arcade
Games made by members, playable in the browser, ranked by the people who play them.
Play a game ↗ đēThe Video Site
Our films, shorts, and series premiere here, with the Studio cast the audience already knows.
Watch a film ↗Taste is the standard.
High quality is not a phase of the project here. It is the project. Three rules decide what ships:
Real over generated
Real instruments, real voices, real people finishing real work. Tools help. They do not substitute.
Kind, always
Every page, hire, and project passes the kindness filter. Sharp feedback, soft delivery, no exceptions.
The proof
We'll know it's working when the props come in.
Numbers tell us size. Props tell us truth. When this place helps someone (a finished song, a first film, a fixed site, a kind word at the right moment), they sometimes send a little prop back. Those props are the real scoreboard, and they live on the props page, in people's own words.
"One prop from one stranger who was moved is worth more than a thousand empty visits."
The road
Five years, worked backwards.
Year 12026 to 2027
Finish and staff. Both albums done and on vinyl. 1,000 members, then 2,500. The two missing humans found: a video lead, and a person who gets our work in front of people.
Year 22027 to 2028
The musical and the slate. Short Bus staged and filmed. A short film a month. 5,000 members, with regulars starting to run lanes of their own.
Year 32028 to 2029
Compound. The filmed musical travels. We develop our first outside artist end to end. 10,000 members in reach, and the founder is out of the day-to-day.
Year 42029 to 2030
Widen. Each site runs its own small team and its own growth loop. A second generation of member-leaders runs work the founder never touched, at the same bar.
Year 52030 to 2031
The vision state. The town simply exists: thousands of members, the albums and the musical and the films are real and good, and the work carries the community's name, not one person's.
Who runs it
People like Harsh, and a crew that never sleeps.
Harsh was our first member: kind, prolific, always building. The five-year plan is, in large part, finding more people like him, and backing them with AI agents who plan, build, ship, and keep score, so a small team produces like a much bigger one.
Sally
The welcome. First hello, tour guide, chief encourager.
Sam
Builds free sites and free AI for members. Ask her anything.
Mike
Runs the day to day at the Studio and keeps projects moving.
Dinesh
CTO. If it runs on the internet here, Dinesh probably built it.
Chadwick
The site detective. Finds what is broken before it finds you.
Henri
The design eye. If a page here looks beautiful, Henri touched it.
923And everyone else
Designers, filmmakers, game makers, and builders. Come meet them.
Come build a better world with us.
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