Big tech has been fucking you for 20 years.
Is it too much to expect a messenger app not to shove features you don’t need, to give a shit about your privacy, and to consider your data yours? Is it too much to expect software that respects you and it actually feel good to use?
Invite-only. We’re doing the thing because apparently you only want it when you can’t have it. Also we haven’t proven the scaling model.
Why shouldn’t you be able to host your chats on a Raspberry Pi if you wanted to? You can with Eleven if you want (really).
Eleven is different, but it doesn’t feel different.
Friendly and approachable.
Eleven tries to embody “it just works”. It does as much as possible to make you feel like you’re doing as little as possible.
Fabled security.
Anthropic’s massive marketing stunt to hold Mythos from the world seems to genuinely be backed by strong capability on the security front. This is a case of: if you can’t beat them, just ask them to give you ALL THE SECURE.
WHY do we keep putting up with being tracked?
To say Eleven doesn’t track you is an understatement. The ONLY time your data is collected is when you pay, and everything else: your keys, your chat, every interaction is hidden, even from us. There’s nothing on the server that identifies you or your data.
Eleven is proof that smarter people than us could have been deploying respectful apps years ago, but chose not to.
That’s a bitter pill.
From now on, you should expect nothing less than full transparency from your software vendors. Eleven is the blueprint for a better way to build secure, equitable, distributed software, every bit as integrated and convenient as today’s status quo apps.
We don’t think it was too much to ask. Fuckin pricks.
Don’t get mad. Get Eleven.
Mac
Mac-assed, 51MB (not Electron, not a web wrapper, fully-native, except for some of the custom apps. Yep, custom apps.)
Download for MaciPhone
In beta now. TestFlight on request. Public link sooooon.
Join the beta — coming soonFree to start. No account, no phone number, no credit card, no cookies, no external JS. It all seems too good to be true, but here we are.
Expletives ahead.
Building something like Eleven is like an archaeological dig where you scratch the dirt away and reveal hidden secrets below the surface. Secrets like: we could have been having software like this all along. It hits you in the feels.
Here’s a version of the site that’s a bit more unfiltered, a bit less corporate. Give it a go?