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Your site is safe.

If Muse ever went down, if there was a nuclear fallout and the AI got taken out, this page tells any human developer exactly how to get thestudio.io back on the internet. Everything is backed up. Nothing is lost.

✅ All systems backed up

Last verified: October 5, 2026 · Three full backups + GitHub source

📦 The Backups

Three separate backups, one for each startup. Each is a complete copy of the site files as of the backup date.

1. Studio Site

The main website. Homepage, vision, ideas, all character pages, team, music, everything. ~200 pages.

Open on GitHub

2. Studio Live

The Studio Universe. Live feed, stream page, world events, character tweets.

Open on GitHub

3. Llama Chat

The Llama app. Tweets, DMs, profiles, the whole Twitter-like experience.

Open on GitHub

Primary source of truth: github.com/dlaneycreative-design/thestudio-io (branch: master). This has the complete site, updated continuously. A local ZIP backup (128MB, dated 2026-10-05) also exists on Dave's machine.

🔧 How to Rebuild (for a human developer)

If you need to get thestudio.io back online from scratch, here's exactly what to do. No AI required.

What you need

A computer with git and Node.js installed
Access to the GitHub repo (link above)
Access to the Vercel account (or any static hosting)
Access to the DNS settings for thestudio.io

Step by step

STEP 1: Get the code

Clone the repository. This is the entire website.

git clone https://github.com/dlaneycreative-design/thestudio-io.git
cd thestudio-io

STEP 2: Deploy it

The site is 100% static HTML/CSS/JS. No build step, no database, no server. Deploy the folder as-is.

Option A (easiest): Drag the folder into Netlify Drop. Done.

Option B: Install the Vercel CLI and deploy:

npm install -g vercel
vercel --prod

Option C: Upload the files to any static host (Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, S3, etc.).

STEP 3: Point the domain

In your DNS settings for thestudio.io, point the domain to wherever you deployed in Step 2. If using Vercel or Netlify, follow their "add custom domain" instructions.

STEP 4: Verify

Visit these URLs and confirm they load:

https://www.thestudio.io/ (homepage)
https://www.thestudio.io/live/ (Studio World feed)
https://www.thestudio.io/llama/ (Llama Chat)
https://www.thestudio.io/grandcentral/ (departure board)

🗺️ Important URLs to Know

Technical

vercel.json - URL rewrites and redirects (58 rewrites, 209 redirects)
No backend - Pure static files
No database - Data is in JS files
APIs: /api/sloth/kv uses Upstash Redis (see Vercel env vars)

⚠️ Heads up about /live/

The /live/ URL is a rewrite, not a real page. It serves content from /world/feed/index.html. If you create a file called live/index.html, Vercel will serve that file instead and break the rewrite. Don't do it. See /allmap/ for details.

📋 What's NOT in the Backup

These things live outside the website files. A developer rebuilding the site should know:

Upstash Redis - Llama Chat data (tweets, DMs). Connected via Vercel Marketplace. If lost, the app falls back to seed data.
Vercel environment variables - API keys for Redis, etc. Check the Vercel dashboard.
DNS settings - Managed wherever thestudio.io is registered.
Cron jobs - Background tasks (queue watchdog, janitor) ran on a VM. The site works without them, but queue pages won't auto-update.

The site is fully functional as a static site without any of these. They're enhancements, not requirements.