Eleven

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There’s no funding

Eleven has no investors, no ad money, and no growth team. So far, it’s been independently funded by Team Tito, and James Adam and hasn’t cost too much. It’s a project in defiance of big tech and of over-complexity in software distribution — proof that a small team can build top-tier, secure software and hand it to people simply: starting with affordable “cloud” hosting, all the way to a single binary you can host yourself. There’s no tracking, no dark patterns. It’s an experiment in rethinking how software is produced, operated and distributed.

If you support those ideas, you can back us directly. We’ll plough every donation into creating a software organisation that acts in a verifiably and independently auditable way, that promotes a commitment to a new bar in standards for security, privacy, ownership, respect, openness, and transparency.

If we do take on any investment money, it will be under open terms and a transparent returns model, in line with a commitment to open ledger books, and open unit economics.

Bear in mind

Eleven isn’t a charity. It’s not even a company yet. A donation buys nothing, promises nothing, and isn’t tax-deductible. It’s just voting with your wallet to add fuel to the fire against the malfeasance of a generation of software “pioneers” who have treated data like oil and built their own extraction industry around it.

If you can’t afford to donate: DO NOT DONATE. Paul and James have enough. Only throw money at us if you have way more than you need and you like popcorn.

What’s the catch?

The catch is this is an AI-driven project.

The ideas behind Eleven are the culmination of years of disillusionment accrued over thousands of paper cuts and a treadmill of software being released with good intentions and turning shit when the economic interests of the creators stopped aligning with the interests of the customers.

This is a project that wouldn’t exist without AI. The manner in which LLMs have been trained on stolen knowledge is reprehensible. The lies, the hype, the shady tactics, the ecological impact, everything. But the technology allows for uncompromising, rapid software development at a rate never seen before, and a rapid interaction cycle of asking: “but what if we did it this way?”.

Eleven is an attempt to show people who use AI flippantly to fart out slop that maybe, just maybe, it can also be used to craft new, better things, and rather than just dream about better technology built for humans, to just make it.

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