About the club

A serious club with one very stupid rule.

A community for founders who have launched something real and still haven't made a dollar.

Free, verified, temporary. Membership lasts precisely until somebody pays you.
A place to be found. The hardest dollar is the first one. A public profile gives your product honest feedback and a small audience rooting for you.
Expulsion is the point. We don't celebrate members for staying. We celebrate them for leaving. Reluctantly.

First sale = Expelled.

The manifesto

Articles of membership.

I
Membership is open to any founder with a live, launched product that has made exactly $0. Not an idea. Not a waitlist. A thing people could pay for and haven't.
II
The $0 is verified, not declared. Members connect their payment processor read-only. The Club checks it on joining and keeps checking.
III
Members may be visited, discussed, and advised by the public at any time.
IV
Visitors are encouraged to support the members they believe most deserve a customer, and to tell them why they haven't paid.
V
The first genuine sale constitutes commercial activity and results in immediate expulsion. The Club is not angry. The Club is disappointed.
VI
Expelled members retain a permanent public record, which the Club will not remove under any circumstances.
VII
The person responsible for an expulsion may sign the record. The Club considers this an honour.

Launched, live, and still at $0? Apply, connect your payment processor read-only, and put your product somewhere people will actually look at it.

Looking for interesting new products before anyone else? The directory is a list of things that exist but haven't been discovered.

You don't have to buy anything. Telling a founder why you didn't is worth more than most of their analytics. Buying, of course, gets them expelled.

We never process a purchase. Buying happens on the founder's own site. We simply read the receipt, and then act accordingly.

Still at $0? Come in.