I respect your request to keep your business private. It's just that when you write post after post, comment after comment, which I enjoy often, about your startup experiences without actually touching upon what exactly it is you do, it gets rather irritating. It's like someone telling you stories about how some product has helped their lives dramatically with tips on how to use it, without actually telling you what the product is. After a while, it starts to raise questions.

I am going to make it public, I just was waiting till august, as that's how my startup plan is constructed. Now would be premature and have no benefit, but in august I would have a clear benefit.

Interesting. Releasing in August will give you three months till November 5th, which is just enough time to manufacture thousands of masks, distribute them across a large metropolitan city, and purchase tons of explosives to rig the underground subway headed for parliament. I feel there's more to your story.

I am outed. It is over!

Not yet: Max Klein, drop the Klein, replace with Payne (same character count). Max Payne was created by Finnish developers. Rearrange the letters of 'Finnish' and you get 'Fish Inn,' which is a dumbed down reference to the Hotel Redfish in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The main language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese, which rearranged yields 'toupee rugs,' which you plan to make out of the hair from the shaved head of your beautiful female prisoner, whom you've tortured to make fearless in hopes that she will one day return to aid in the execution of your plot. Now it's over.

No, this is just the beginning!

is [email protected] not an email address you have used? Are those domain names registered with that address not your registrations?

That's not an email address of mine, no.

3 months is way more than enough to manufacture thousands of masks. I think he could get millions of them done, especially if he gets help from the Vatican and the Frenchmasons. I think this could be an international plot.

I'm hoping for the best here - your blog posts are great.

But it does seem a little suspicious that you can't talk about your business in public.

I can't think of a single legit business where talking about it openly didn't benefit the business (especially once the product is launched).

You may not be able to think of such legit businesses, but they exist. I've signed NDA's at at least two.

Simple reason why you might not want to talk about it: you want to sell to customers on the sly while avoiding creating competition. The product is probably easy to duplicate and doesn't currently exist right now because no one thought of it.

In a few months, when I have entered the second stage of my business, I will start talking about my products. It's just a choice. I am not marketing to the startup or hacker crowd, just to the normal people.

I agree with the feeling. The posts are interesting reads, but early on there was discussion of social engineering that didn't smell right... There are a number of interesting domains registered to a maximus klein with the following contact:

Maximus Klein ([email protected]) 81 City Road London United Kingdom,EC1Y 1BL GB Tel. +44.8452802710

close to the cubeofm registration .. a domain name with a "vitch" in the ending as well... Our Max says this isn't him though...

posting a strangers contact details really isn't cool, especially in the context of this thread.

I suppose it is cool for cubeofm domain registration to give the address for the Dog & Partridge Pubs then ehhh? As so many seem to be saying... it's suspicious smelling. Could be completely legit, but also could be like the KimKins lowcarbfriends thing and could use some investigation.. The items posted were straight from DNS registration public info...

It is a strange thing to say given that your products are already in the market. You sound very confident in your posts and you sound awfully scared in this comment of yours. Are you particularly scared of HNers?

A crowd of mostly young or hungry entrepreneurial hackers who could clone his software and/or enter the same niche markets, perhaps taking only a few good sprints to do it, as well. I can definitely see why someone might be scared of this crowd.

I have a cash-cow side project that makes more money than many would expect. It'd also be trivially easy to duplicate and is simple enough that there'd be barely any value to HNers to hear the details. I'm confident talking crap about that field but wouldn't be overly keen to submit to HN questioning. Could well be that maxklein is in a similar position.