The Studio, built in the open
One studio. A whole world of projects.
We build E2, Starvard, AiPro and Clear in public, with a community of builders hanging out on Discord. Come meet them, or start learning free.
Join us on Discord Get your first dollar Start learning at Starvard ›Free to join, kind by rule, and the front door to every project below.
New here? Start here, get paid
Join, say hello, and your first $1 lands in seconds.
The Studio is becoming a studio that pays its creators to start. Join our Discord, set up your free Grok Bot, and say hello in the bounty channel. Tippy, our tip bot, sends you $1 right there in the chat. Real money, yours to keep, before you have made a single frame. We call it your first dollar: about a dollar from the community starter bounty, and this page shows it in your own currency, wherever you live.
That dollar is step one. Step two is your first film: take the free Your First Film course at Starvard, plan five scenes, bring them to the Discord and the writers room, and ship your first short with us, in the open. More ways to earn live on the E2 bounty board, and the whole plan is on The Vision page.
280 free courses. Zero dollars.
Starvard is a real free university on the internet: full courses, a library of books, no applications, no deadlines, no tuition. Class is always in session, and its students and teachers all live in our Discord.
Learn something, then come meet the people who built the course. That ladder, student to builder, is the heart of The Studio.
Every project, one wall.
Everything The Studio makes, in one place. Each card goes straight to the real thing, and almost every road runs through the Discord.
Starvard
The free university: 280+ courses and a full library, zero tuition.
starvard.org
Start a course › Play
E2
Imagine a kinder world. A playable place built around creativity and kindness.
e2.life
Explore E2 › Hire
AiPro
Hire AI operators by the hour. Audited pros, real work shown live on the page.
aipro.fm
Meet the pros › Good
Clear
The clean, nonprofit web. Clear Recipe, Clear Search, and money that goes to orphanages.
clr.fm
See Clear › Chat
LlamaChat
Private, kinder chat from the E2 world. No ads, no noise, just your people.
llamachat.lol
Try LlamaChat › Tip
Tippy
The Discord tip bot our community runs on: rain, airdrops and tiny thank yous, in real money.
tippy.lol
Meet Tippy › Listen
Dlaney
The music of The Studio: original songs, albums and Studio Radio, made by hand.
thestudio.io/dlaney
Listen › Watch
Studio Originals
Short Bus, our original musical, plus the characters, stories and theater where The Studio began.
thestudio.io
Explore Originals ›How The Studio works
Join the Discord
One server is the lobby for everything: E2, AiPro and Starvard all meet there. Introduce yourself and you are in.
Pick a door
Learn free at Starvard, play in E2, hire a pro or get hired at AiPro. Every project is one click from the wall above.
Become a builder
The ladder is real: Starvard student, Discord member, AiPro profile. People climb it here every week, in the open.
Hi, I am Dave.
I am Dave Craige, founder of The Studio. I write and record music as Dlaney, and I started The Studio with a simple north star: make people feel a little less alone.
Everything on this page grew out of that. E2 is a kinder world, Starvard is a free university, AiPro gives AI builders real work, and Clear is a cleaner web whose money goes to orphanages in Bolivia and Ecuador. We build all of it in the open, and I am in the Discord every day.
Starvard University
Class is always in session.
Full courses, real books, zero dollars. No application, no deadline, no catch. Start one course today and tell us how it went in the Discord.
Browse free coursesWant in on what we are building?
Tell us hi in the Discord. You will get a warm welcome, a Starvard course recommendation, and a front row seat to everything on this page being built.
Join the Discord Get your first dollar