As you can imagine, we use Kickoff daily. We try very hard to craft the best experience we can. We put sweat and tears in every details, and nothing can cheer us up more than your feedback on our work.
Today we received a heartening testimony from the fine folks at 8BIT. They shot an awesome video to show the world their love for Kickoff and how it helps them to get their job done every day:
We'd really like to thank them for that, it means a lot to us!
We'd also like to take the opportunity to thank all of you for the great feedback we receive daily via email or Twitter.
We really hope you'll love what's coming next for Kickoff as much as we currently do!
We've just pushed Kickoff 1.4.1 which addresses many bugs you've reported (thanks for that!), including:
A bug with the Meeting Room connecting to a "ghost" chat room
Todos due today were not always showing up in the "Due Today" list
An empty progress bar when dragging multiple files in the chat
A bug when you paste an email address in the invitation text field
Some issues with the internationalization of the dates
Make sure to Check for Updates to get this latest version.
Wait, is that all?!
If you were used to our frequent release cycle, you may be surprised by this minor bug fix update after almost 3 months since our latest release. Well, let me reassure you: we've been building a lot more than this. We unfortunately can't share yet this cool stuff we're working on but I can safely say Thomas, Benjamin and I have never been so excited by the future of our product :)
I'm honored to announce that Thomas is joining our tiny team today! He'll be working full-time from now on the development of Kickoff together with Michaël.
We're very, very excited about this! It takes a lot of time and energy to polish every corner of the app and while Michaël is without any doubt an absolute genius, another brilliant developer won't be too much to tackle all the exciting stuff we've planned for Kickoff :)
To be honest, we never thought someone else would ever join us. We want to stay (very) small and keep this excessive control about what's released. Fortunately, we met someone who is 1) as much obsessive about details as we are and 2) a fine Belgian beer connoisseur. Learning that he has been waiting in front of the doors at 2am for the WWDC Stevenotes every year has finally convinced us he was the right guy.
We've been working hard on this new release and we're thrilled to share it with you today. This update brings a lot of exciting stuff, including a new free plan! Let's have a quick look at those improvements:
New offer, new free plan
With our previous offer, we tried to make something very simple by having only two paying plans. While it was fine for many teams, we had a lot of request from teams that were just a bit too big for the small paying plan and way too small for our biggest plan. That's why we're introducing today a new, more flexible and more affordable offer which includes a new free plan! Our paying customers will also be happy to learn they'll now pay less for more :)
Folders and smart filters for files and todos
The most requested feature was to have an easy way to organize the files in a project. Kickoff 1.4 introduces a new sidebar for both the todos and the files where you can create your own folders and use various built-in smart filters to quickly find the files shared in a specific section, the todos assigned to you or due today, and many more. Here's a quick preview:
New project list
Kickoff 1.4 now offers an alternative list view for your projects. It lets you browse and find your projects in a more suitable way when you have dozens of projects.
Tweaks and performance
We've polished lots of details in various areas in order to keep improving the overall user experience. Those tweaks include an extended keyboard support for the todos (reorder, check, delete, edit, …), email autocomplete in the invitation process, more notification preferences and better file versioning support. Kickoff 1.4 also dramatically improves the performance of the Chat and the Files.
Update now to Kickoff 1.4, we think you're going to love it!
We're happy to announce we've just reached 10,000 users on Kickoff! Of course, this puts things *slightly* into perspective but as a tiny team of 2 people with such a young product, that's quite a big milestone for us :)
We're thrilled that the Kickoff community is thriving. We see lots of teams we admire use Kickoff in their daily workflow and that's incredibly rewarding.
To celebrate this milestone, we're giving away 10 free Team plans for one year today. Just retweet this tweet to enter the contest. We'll choose 10 winners at random, on Friday Sep 23.
Thank you again for supporting us, we're incredibly proud to have you on board.
