Piins' "Hello World"

Over 2 years now have passed since the idea was first born. Unlike most births, it did not hurt very much but it rather was a feeling of complete freedom and happiness. It was a nice, maybe a little idealistic vision of being able to be more than "just not evil", it was a vision of actually "being good".

Over the years we built a nice little prototype, that we're soon going to release to a very special closed group. And no, although it sounds a little odd and 90-ies to be in "stealth-mode", experience from previous ventures just proves that the user is everything you've got in the Internet world. The user is the single most important thing, so you have to give them a chance to help you.

And as much as we think we can enrich the daily life of our users in the Internet, we are convinced that every individual out there enriches and challenges our vision on a daily basis allowing us not only just to "be good" but to even "be better". So stealth-mode is not just another odd marketing gag or a way to make people talk about us (although that could not do any harm), but to allow everyone to participate in that vision without diluting it.

One more thing: we know, that Piins is going to be quite disputed. What we're doing is, as we see it, the next step in Web-Development (yeah, sounds opaque and fuzzy again, but we're happy to discuss with everyone) and it is going to require a possibly yet unmet amount of trust from our users. We're convinced that not only our personalities, everyone in the team, but also our users aim for nothing else than "being good" - naive again? Well, we say it's worth a try!

In that sense, a warm "hello world!" to all you guys'n girls out there from the Piins team - let's go the next step in the Web together.