As most of you know, Discord is an ever-evolving beast. User engagement allows you to be part of the conversation with us as we guide you to harness time itself.
We love the support we have received from all of you that joined us in these early days, and in an effort to keep things spicy while also giving some well-deserved pats on the back to some of our strongest supporters, we would like to introduce a brand-new Referral Roustabout Challenge for the month of June:
🚀 QUP Corp Discord Growth Challenge 🚀 Bring the hype. Build the squad. Earn your title.
We’re growing the QUP Corp community—and it’s your time to shine as the ultimate recruiter.
💥 The Mission: Invite your friends, fellow innovators, traders, creatives—anyone who should be part of the QUP movement—to our Discord server.
🏆 The Competition: Earn points for growing the community with quality members. Here’s how it works:
🎯 1 Point – New member joins using your invite
🗣️ +1 Point – They post an intro in #welcome
👥 +2 Points – They invite someone else who joins
💬 +3 Points – They engage in events, convos, or share insights
📈 Leaderboard: We update the Weekly Leaderboard every Sunday. The higher you climb, the bigger the flex.
🎖️ Exclusive Roles (Earn Your Rank):
🟢 Recruiter – 5+ points
🔵 Senior Recruiter – 15+ points
🟣 Executive Recruiter – 30+ points
🔶 Master Recruiter – 50+ points
🔱 God of Recruitment – 100+ points (Role comes with special server perks, flair, and infinite bragging rights.)
📜 Hall of Fame: Top recruiters each week get their names etched in our community history forever.
🧠 Pro Tip: Drop your custom invite link in chats, groups, socials—wherever your network lives. Keep it organic (no bots, no fake accounts).
🔗 Use your own unique Server Invite Link (links forthcoming – stay tuned).
Let the recruiting games begin. #QUPSquadAscend #QUPSquadRise #QUPSquadAssemble #Queuemmunity
Our initial alpha/early beta testing is proceeding on schedule so far this year. We look forward to streaming more details of our advancements and improvements over the next few months. In case you missed our earlier posts on X and Reddit, here is a brief snippet:
Now Listed with CoinGecko
The QUP coin, official crypto token of QUP Corp’s revolutionary new application has recently been listed by CoinGecko! CoinGecko is the world’s largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator with over 17,000+ different crypto assets tracked across more than 1,000+ exchanges worldwide.
This listing is increasing QUP’s visibility to the international community and will continue to improve public interest and engagement in out products.
College Students Love QUP
Our team at TCU really helped to start our college communities moving forward, and that enthusiasm has spilled over to Denver University and the University of Colorado, Boulder campus.
Word is spreading across college campuses in major metropolitan areas such as Boston and Chicago. Our college contacts will be continuing the grassroots expansions that began earlier this year. Few weekend locations are as consistently busy as college-town bars and nightclubs, and as adoption grows in these densely populated areas, we are confident that it will be carried wholeheartedly into the larger communities.
Newsletter Alterations
As this newsletter ages, it will be subject to some modifications, in an ever-changing attempt to keep it relevant and interesting to you, the readers. We are happy to hear any and all requests for changes, criticisms, or just casual expressions of satisfaction with the current iteration. Feel free to reach out via email or social media as you desire. Thanks for reading!
In upcoming editions, we intend to add a bit of levity in the form of QUP-related short fiction. We will also be conducting a series of polls intended to better streamline future presentations. We are excited to help this project grow with your assistance.
Starting a revolutionary company sounds glamorous, until you abruptly are knee-deep in the anything-but-glamorous details: code that just will not compile, algorithms that do not yet exist, a Discord server that is either too quiet or too chaotic, and a calendar full of work shifts and other business responsibilities that have nothing to do with your ultimate dream. But perhaps that is where it always begins: in chaos, under pressure, with only a spark and a vision.
For us bootstrapping a groundbreaking startup, especially one that bridges technology and crypto, the reality is raw. We’re a tiny team. Some of us are in logistics, some in communications. Others are computer programmers or enterprise-level sales team leaders, business owners or project managers. None of us have the luxury of full-time focus on this mission. Every hour we spend on our project is borrowed – from sleep, from personal time, from sanity. Since the QUP project represents an entirely new method of line management, no one has expertise in everything we’re building. We learn as we go. And that represents both the thrill and the torment.
Learning on the Fly
When you lack the resources to hire a team of engineers, you become one. When there is no budget for a UI designer, you become that too. YouTube tutorials, Grok and ChatGPT strings, and any relevant open-source documentation you can find become your university. You learn how to write your first line of back-end code while debugging your fifth API error. You wrestle with questions like “How do I secure this endpoint?” while watching walkthroughs at 2 am. You learn to code not because you want to – but because no one else is going to do it for you.
And that extends to your algorithm. Maybe it started with a basic idea: a function to filter, to recommend, to score. Then it grew. It had to scale. It had to evolve. It had to work inside the very application you’re still creating. Building the algorithm means balancing theory and data and limitations you didn’t know existed until last week.
Crypto: Hype, Hope, and Headaches
Then there’s the crypto side of the business. No longer are you just building software – you’re also shepherding a coin, a token that represents the heartbeat of your community. But community will never fully maintain itself. You need engagement. You need transparency. You need momentum.
That means multi-weekly posts across an ocean of social media platforms, constant updates, and creative ways to keep people interested even when your real focus is elsewhere – like fixing the back-end of your app so the thing doesn’t crash when more than five people log in at once.
The irony is that the crypto is never meant to be the endgame – but simply the ecosystem that supports something bigger. But you still have to sell it, explain it, protect it. And yes, fight off the scammers. Because the second you show up on any radar, someone wants to exploit you. You become paranoid. You encrypt everything. You wonder who you can trust. You learn that security isn’t a layer you add, but a mindset you adopt.
The Struggle for Focus
Perhaps the hardest part of all is not the technical hurdles or the lack of time – it’s trying to keep your vision intact when you feel pulled in every direction. There’s the coin, the app, the community, the branding, the fundraising, the bugs, the feature creep, the PR, the legal concerns, the impostor syndrome. You simply cannot do it all, but you have to try anyway.
And through it all, the most important thing – your application, the product you actually care about – gets delayed, pushed down the roadmap, because survival always comes first.
But we keep going. Because creation, though difficult, is the only thing worth doing. Because that impossible app? It matters. The idea matters. And someday, when we look back, the sleepless nights, the patched-together solutions, the makeshift team – that will be the legacy. That will be the proof that even in the most uncertain of beginnings, something real can emerge.
QUP Corp and DrinQUP are the brainchildren of Chris Barringer, CEO and founder of QUP Corp. Chris, originally from Denver, Colorado, dropped out of high school in 12th grade and worked in a factory to support his family. While at work, he taught himself computer programming and realized that both he and his family would benefit from this new professional direction. He took the G.E.D. and went to Westwood College of Technology for Computer Networking, taking 21 credits a term to achieve his associates degree in only one year. Afterward, in an interview with the board at Denver University, Chris successfully argued that his life experience was already equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree. He got in the EMBA program in 2018 and graduated summa cum laude a year and a half later with an Executive Master’s Degree. Chris’ childhood and early adult life are fascinating examples of thriving through extreme hardship. He will be featured in upcoming blogs (www.qupcorp/blog) so stay tuned!
Chris is a driven, relentless creator, thinker and dreamer who has surprisingly realistically shaped visions to improve society and the world that we live in. DrinQUP is a very small “proof-of-concept” style step in a much, much greater plan that we look forward to sharing with you in stages. Here is our current 2025 road map , and stay tuned, because if you want to see a healthier, happier world, I believe you will be very excited to see the expansions benefitting your everyday life within the next few years.
This previous weekend, QUP Corp’s CEO and two of our biggest crypto holders all met for the first time in New York City.
Tensions were high – at least for our esteemed CEO who was about to receive his first-ever tattoo to demonstrate his immutable future as head of QUPCorp.
Meanwhile, our two other guests were both long-time tattoo enthusiasts but were each flying in from foreign locales to see the big Apple for the first time – Mitchell from Canada, and Mikko all the way from Finland. Mitchell and Mikko got matching tattoos on their calves, and Chris took the tattoo plunge with a half-sleeve:
Visit our website www.qupcorp.com and check out our blog (coming soon) to see the rest of this story!
QUP Corp officially unveiled our first flagship application – DrinQUP (www.drinqup.com) in the first quarter of 2025. To introduce this project, which has been years in the making, we recently created a “white paper” (click on the word to access the document, or just go directly to www.drinqup.com/whitepaper). We would love for you to look it over to gain a better understanding of what we are trying to achieve.
What Exactly is DrinQUP?
DrinQUP exists to eliminate the need for people to wait in physical queues (aka lines). With our application, not only can you place your drink order without moving from your seat, but you also can choose to move forward in the queue if you are in a hurry and even be rewarded if your wait time is affected by events beyond your control. DrinQUP improves business efficiency, creates an interactive customer database to improve service and decreases the possibility of confrontational or uncomfortable situations when people are forced to play the waiting game together.
You can load the free DrinQUP app on any smart phone, tablet or computer to interact directly with participating venues (such as bars, nightclubs, concerts or sporting events). DrinQUP uses a unique algorithm (patent pending) to simplify the drink ordering process and completely eliminate the need for you to stand in line as you await your beverage.
The “QUP coin” is a crypto utility token that powers these transactions from the background. If you are already into crypto or interested, you can purchase QUP coins from online crypto exchanges such as Coinbase Wallet or Phantom Wallet. QUP Corp, the DrinQUP app, and other company products do not directly sell this coin to you or purchase it from you, as we are not exchanges ourselves. If this still sounds confusing, read our whitepaper or keep following these newsletters as I will be delving deeper into the intricacies of all kinds of crypto in future editions. If this is too much to take in or if you are just not a “crypto person,” fear not as the DrinQUP app does not require you to have any QUP coinage and can be run entirely with more standard means of currency, such as a credit card or PayPal.
