Let us introduce you to Pileaf
Hi guys !
We have another important news to share with you, that we wanted you to know before anyone else.
We’ve launched our Kickstarter campaign one year ago, and since this time a lot of people have asked to talk to us about their ideas, their projects, … And we were happy to meet them and give us some advices, but we never met a team that convinced us to take part to their project. Until we met Quentin & Nancy, two young Belgians that came to us with this beautiful idea : PiLeaf.
We fall for this project in particular because of the energy and motivation of Nancy & Quentin, but also because it is complementary with Slidenjoy : it enhances the portability and the efficiency of your laptop ! You'll see how soon, when they'll launch their Kickstarter campaign.
They’re only at the beginning of this great adventure we’ve been experiencing for the past year, and this is truly exciting for us to help them… not to make the same errors that we made (Being overoptimistic about the delivery delay, for example ;)). We’ve learned a lot with Slidenjoy, often from our mistakes, and we’d like to share this small experience we’ve earned with them. We’ll be their mentors, their godfathers, their supports, call it how you wish ☺ We hope you'll join us in this adventure, and will spread the word with us!
We wanted you to know that this doesn’t change anything about Slidenjoy : this is still our priority, our first baby, and our first concern is to deliver to you the best product we can, in November. There’s no compromise on that.
We’ll be organizing a small gathering next week (Friday 5th of August) to introduce PiLeaf to our friends and partners that have followed us from the beginning. It includes political representatives, sales representatives, some journalists, but mostly our friends who were there when we were just talking about an idea. We’ll also give some news about where we are with Slidenjoy, showing the last images of our Slidenjoy, and talking about the final phase of our adventure... Here in our workplace, in Acoz.
We know most of you are far away from us, everywhere throughout the world, but this is a moment we’d like to share with you. We’ll be live-streaming the speech Laurent, Charlee, Thomas, Nancy & Quentin will give this Friday. (I’ll post you the link next week !). If it’s impossible for you to watch (jetlag, work, anything !), we’ll also record it and post it here – fully translated from French, as always.
Feel free to ask all your questions here, we’ll be more than happy to answer you !
Michael Winter 2 days ago
@slidenjoy: isn't it amazing how you updated us almost a week ago and we want another update. Maybe you could advise your new people: the contributors want regular updates. Weekly or less is best, but 10-days between updates is acceptable if there is a good reason.
Don't forget the importance of transparency and not being connected to scummy business practitioners. ;-)
Erick Anderson 2 days ago
What was the advice over promise and under deliver? Convince people to give you a huge some of money without a design that was relevant? Seems like it's been working out pretty well for you guys...not so well for us. I'm glad your excited to enter into another project when you can't even finish your first. We don't want to hear about how awesome your life is and what new business opportunities our cumulative capital has afforded you. Just please finish and ship product.
Hendrik 2 days ago
Can you tell me about the drivers for Slidenjoy? Im pretty much on linux only with my laptop since a couple of month now. Will there be a linux driver ready in November? (you sayed it would work with linux at the beginning of the campian). If not, can I get a refound? Because it would then be totally useless for me.
Slidenjoy Creator 2 days ago
Hello Mr P,
We answered to these questions in the (long) video we posted a while ago (in June).
We've posted more updates since then, last one, from Monday, saying we just had to wait for a safety check and then we'll begin the production (around September) to begin (as we've been saying also for some time) the delivery in November. I just repost it in case you've missed it.
As we've said, engaging with PiLeaf was a "love at first sight" kind of thing, that we couldn't help but accept. And once again, it doesn't change anything about our dedication to Slidenjoy. Won't take us time that we would have given for Slidenjoy!
Mr P 2 days ago
This is just... noise. Pretty much every other update here has no direct relevance to the progress of the project. I'd suggest leaving collaboration, let alone offering advice on KS projects, until after you've delivered your own project. And in the meantime give us meaningful updates on your progress (x milestones to go, y milestones completed, the kind of basic project planning timeline we've been asking for, for months, and which has never been forthcoming.
Slidenjoy Creator 2 days ago
@James: we've posted an update about where we are on Monday :)
James Verrelli 2 days ago
Yet another update that does not have a bit of information on the product. It is nice you are able to share your experiences with others, but how are things progressing with the product?