Sign on and the number is yours.
One email address, no card. You get your own number, a digital plate with your name on it, and a place on the manifest.
PIRATESEYE
STOWAWAY
Member number PE-0043, rank Stowaway
NOT ISSUED
Unclaimed. This is the next number out.
Digital only — nothing is manufactured and nothing gets posted.
Two things land in your inbox: a line when a film goes up, and a line when something goes into the hold — the long cuts that never reach YouTube. The first you can open. The second tells you what went below deck, and what it takes to get at it.
The manifest
Everyone who has signed on, in the order they did it. Free and paid alike — the number is the number. Your number and rank are all that appear unless you add a name; your email address never does.
First 100 crew. 4 spots taken.
96 left in the first 100
What a rank gets you
Stowaway is free and always will be. The rest are for people who want the machines to keep running — monthly money is the difference between filming what breaks and filming what I actually wanted to build.
Stowaway
Free
An email address. That is the entire price.
- Your number and your digital plate
- Your name on the manifest
- Told the day a film goes up, and when the hold gets something new
Deckhand
$7 / mo
A tank of diesel a year, spread out so neither of us notices.
- Everything in Stowaway
- Your rank on the manifest
- Episodes 24 hours before they go public
- The build log — real measurements, real mistakes, what it actually cost
- The footage that does not survive the platforms
Quartermaster
The one$17 / mo
For people who genuinely want the machines to keep running.
- Everything in Deckhand
- A vote on what goes on the ramp next
- A monthly live call from the garage
Ship's council
$49 / mo
For the few who want the machines kept running more than they want the money back, and who want a say in what happens next.
- Everything in Quartermaster
- First seat at any meet-up, wherever it lands
Apple Pay and Google Pay appear first on the payment screen. Cancel any time, in two clicks, no email to me required — manage your support.
Where to watch
Same person, four algorithms. Follow wherever you already are.
Where it actually goes
- Diesel and ferries40%
The single biggest hole.
- Parts and welding gas30%
Mostly things that snapped.
- Food and a roof when it freezes20%
Not glamorous.
- Camera bits and hard drives10%
They die too.
Rough split, honestly estimated rather than accounted. Real numbers get published once there are enough of them to be worth publishing.
Keep it running
No rank, no commitment, no mailing list unless you ask for one. Straight into the tank. You still get a number and a digital plate, emailed to you so you keep them.
A tank, and a bad coffee
Card · Apple Pay · Google Pay · PayPal · no account needed
Opens the hold, and what is in it stays yours
Or type an exact amount
Things you can hold
The same marks that are on the van, on things that survive a workshop. Bought outright — this is not support and none of it goes towards a mission. You are buying an object.
Go to the stores