Valhalla Island

A week ago, after signing up for the millionth online service, I had an idea to make fun of the whole account creating experience. Last weekend I built Useless Account and sent it live.

Before I even blogged about it I thought it’d be funny to submit it to TechCrunch and Paul Stamatiou as they review a lot of new web startups, not really expecting it to be considered at all. Unbelievably TechCrunch’s Michael Arlington featured Useless Account! He gave me a huge wrap and I couldn’t be more appreciative:

It’s clear, for example, that more work has gone into this joke than many of the startups we see every day.

After the first 50 signups the site started to slowly grind to a halt as the server tried to process so much of my horrible code. A huge thanks to Andrew Krespanis who offered to host the site’s images, moved quickly and got the site moving quickly again. Andrew is a book editor and also helped me with a lot of copy. He was a massive help all round.

Props also go to Randy Walker and blognewb in my IRC channel for writing two of the questions.

At the time of writing there are currently 202 useless accounts. An overwhelming amount. I’ve also been flooded with an a huge amount of email, both with thanks for a laugh and requests for design work through Brisbane Creative, even a phone call from a fellow Brisbane startup operator! A few new members in my IRC channel, #bcreative on irc.freenode.net, have popped up.

There’s a couple of other blog posts I’ve come accross too, this one on TinFinger is great!

The whole thing has completely exceeded my expectations. It’s going to take me forever to reply to all these emails, I’ve never recieved so many at once. But if you’re waiting for a reply, I will get back to you.

It’s not only supplied attention but in the few hours since it was featured I’ve met a whole bunch of people from the Brisbane and Australian web development community, it’s been great! I’m going to try to organise a BarCamp Brisbane.

I can’t wait to check out some of the answers to “What would you do for $1,000,000 that you wouldn’t for $10,000?”

Update: It got over 1000 Diggs and on the front page of del.icio.us! Wowza!

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