Is telling the customer what your site does important? Apparently Not

mildweed 13 years ago |

Is keeping your site traffic-spike-proof important? Apparently Not.

jemka 13 years ago |

http://www.11kclub.com/tos.aspx

You are applying to join a club of which you know nothing about and trust we will make appropriate use of the information provided by you

You may apply once per email address

We will use the details you provide for the purpose of reviewing your application, providing the 11K Service for those who are chosen to join the club and nothing more

We may also occassionally send progress updates to the email address you have provided

You may cancel your application by sending an email to support@11kclub.com. We will remove your details from our database upon cancellation

We may reject your application if you do not provide a proper reason for wanting to join the club. Upon rejection, you are free to re-apply

The more people you refer to the 11K Club using your personalised invite link - which is provided once you have submitted an application - the higher your chances of becoming a member

bhpiii 13 years ago |

"11000 places available. One exceptional benefit."

"You are applying to join a club of which you know nothing about ..."

"The more people you refer to the 11K Club ... the higher your chances of becoming a member."

nathan_long 13 years ago | |

>> of which you know nothing about

Oooh, is it the Extraneous Preposition Club?

mistercow 13 years ago | |

>"You are applying to join a club of which you know nothing about ..."

I usually don't even apply to join clubs about of which I know for many of, but with color me on intrigued!

notjustanymike 13 years ago |

Yeah well I'm starting the 12kclub.com. We don't even have a site. Respond to this comment and I'll consider letting you know when we have a site to sign up on.

drharris 13 years ago | |

Please let me know when you have a site for the 12k club, as I intend to join. The 11k club is simply too elite.

zheng 13 years ago |

"You may apply once per email address"

1. Write script to register for email addresses

2. Hook up to application for 11k

3. ???

4. Profit?

Seriously though, I'm guessing this is either a cheap way to farm some emails or the benefit will include some MLM crap.

johnbenwoo 13 years ago |

Sounds like a modern iteration of the PEN15 Club

dnlbyl 13 years ago |

What's the current market price for the personal contact details of 11,000+ individuals? Keep in mind that these people are willing to sign up for something they know nothing about...

mildweed 13 years ago |

Domain purchased 7/30/2012. This is 2 days old. This does not sound like a well-thought-out Big Idea.

dag11 13 years ago |

Well, what is it? How did you find it?

mdoyle 13 years ago | |

No idea. It's being shared amongst my group of friends on facebook. Sounds intriguing, at least to me. (I've applied).

sadga 13 years ago | | |

Ugh. Behavior like this encourages more obnoxious teaser sites like this, that profit from abusing people's natural curiosity. These sites are barely a quantum leap above spam.

eevilspock 13 years ago |

Someone should write a bot to take all the remaining spots.

sw1205 13 years ago | |

It's not the first 11,000 - it seems they could have 100,000 apply but they select which 11,000 go in to the club. So you may be wasting your time writing a bot..

busterkeaton 13 years ago |

Mike you forgot to make a fake name for HN. If you go to http://www.younoodle.com/startups/favilous which belongs to Mr. Doyle and leads to http://www.favilous.com/ which is copyright A Shade of Green 2009. The same copyright as 11kclub. Still wanna say you don't know what it is?

whyleym 13 years ago | |

Full disclosure I am one of the brother's of the guys involved in this project ! This to me now typifies Hacker News and this is very very sad. Hacker News of which I have been a member for a number of years has always been a great place to go where you get good actionable comments and discussion on topics. This thread however is typical of the 'new' Hacker News, a place where users want to snipe at other users and find negative aspects to things submitted. BusterKeaton has gone to the extent of creating a throwaway Hacker News profile to point out disparities in an interesting project that had no ulterior motive - just an idea that stemmed from a book that may also apply to a website. Why pick it apart to try to find something wrong with it ? Why then try to discredit one of the founders with threats about his current employer ? Hacker News was always a place where like minded people could gather to discuss and showcase interesting projects, often for people who are employed outside of these projects and who are trying to better their lives with interesting and thought provoking projects. Hacker News now unfortunately is a place where some of it's users are trying to discredit and prove a point. This is a very sad day and has forever tainted my view of Hacker News and reinforces my view that Hacker News is certainly not the place it once was and albeit there a lot of great users with interesting commentary and interesting projects to showcase there are a lot of individuals who want to prove a point, belittle others and generally snipe.

Lockyy 13 years ago | |

Where does the 11kclub mention a shade of green?

busterkeaton 13 years ago | | |

In the meta copyright tags.

Lockyy 13 years ago | | |

Well this is all suddenly extremely dodgy, with the submitter lying about who he is, and various other favilous workers commenting as well with no disclosure.

mildweed 13 years ago | | |

--removed--

mdoyle 13 years ago | | |

This is all getting very personal. We wanted to create a fun project to see if people would join something they knew nothing about but obviously we had to lie a bit to ensure that we didn't give the game away. Ever read the book Join Me by Danny Wallace? We wanted to see if people would join a website in the same manner. We've got an idea for what we want the club to be but we wanted to keep it under wraps to keep it fun.

We've had lots of users join. It's been a really great day. I guess you've 'caught us' ) No harm done I hope.

sw1205 13 years ago | | |

Thanks - really appreciate it. Sorry again.