One week
Seven days from the campaign closing to backers being on the new machine. Not a quarter, not “in the new year”.
It can be a week because nothing is being manufactured and nothing is being posted.
Days 1–4
Move to a bigger machine
The prototype runs on a box sized for exactly that — a demonstration. Backers arriving is the first time it has to be sized for people.
Database, uploaded photographs and configuration move across, the new machine is brought up alongside the old one, and traffic switches only once the new one is serving correctly.
Days 5–6
Backups, and restoring from them
Nightly backups, integrity-checked, copied off the machine they protect. Today every copy sits on the same disk as the thing it is backing up, which is the single most consequential gap on the list.
Then the part that is usually skipped: actually restoring from one. A backup nobody has restored from is a hypothesis, not a backup.
Day 7
Backers are in
Names go on the credits page, founding marks go on profiles, and anyone whose tier includes the build log receives it as a document.
Nothing is posted, so nothing can be lost in transit or held at a border. This is not version one opening — that is eight weeks out, and it has its own date below.
Restored, not just taken
A backup you have never restored from is a hypothesis.
That line has been at the top of the backup script since long before this campaign, and it is why two of the seven days are spent on something no backer will ever see.
The prototype’s backups already run nightly, are checked for integrity, and have been restored from once — a real file was deleted and came back byte-identical. What they are not is anywhere other than the machine they protect.
Day five and six fix that, and then prove the fix by using it.
Counted from when
- Campaign closes
- Thursday 8 October 2026
- Backers are on the new machine
- Seven days after that, whenever it is. Credits, marks and the build log land here.
- Zwaptz version one opens
- Eight weeks after the campaign closes, when comparable sales is connected and every valuation has real listings behind it. That is the date on the tiers.
Delivery week is the move, the backups and the records. Zwaptz version one opens eight weeks after the campaign closes; meeting places built from facts follows inside six months, and the roadmap says so rather than folding it into a single date it would miss.