{"id":27026,"date":"2014-10-27T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2014-10-27T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:00:55","slug":"lima-responds-critics-1-year-1-3m-kickstarter-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/10\/lima-responds-critics-1-year-1-3m-kickstarter-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Still not shipped, Lima responds to critics 1 year after its KickStarter campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On September 8th, 2013,\u00a0Lima completed its KickStarter campaign<\/a>, raising $1,229,074 (well beyond its $69,000 goal, which it shattered in a matter of hours<\/a>), despite having to change their name midway through the campaign. At the time the largest KickStarter campaign in France<\/a>\u00a0(they have since been leapfrogged by Giroptic<\/a>), \u00a0the company went on to raise another $2.5 Million from Partech International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Our only focus for this past year has been to ship you best product possible.” – Severin Marcombes, CEO @ Lima<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now one year later, the company still hasn’t shipped. And backers\u00a0have gotten verbal about it. You need only type a single search on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0to see how users have reacted –\u00a0accounts\u00a0like @unMeetLima, parodying the company’s official twitter account, @MeetLima, boast “Spending our Kickstarter and VC funds living like rockstars,” with the account owner describing himself as a “a pissed off Kickstarter backer.”<\/p>\n

While it’s not uncommon for KickStarter campaigns to get delayed (or even, to never ship), Lima owes much of the\u00a0bad press to its lack of communication to backers, which CEO Severin Marcombes owed up to in a video published on the company’s Vimeo account earlier this month:<\/p>\n

“When we launched our campaign, we were just a couple of geeks in a cave…\u00a0You don’t ship a product the same way to 1,000 people as you do to 13,000 people” – Severin Marcombes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much of the delay has been due to Lima recoding the entire product from Python into C, as well as pushing back deadlines on soft launches and hard launches; sources close to the company say that\u00a0the founders\u00a0have trouble shipping,\u00a0frequently delaying shipping in order to add ‘just one more feature.’ In the video, Severin speaks of Lima’s compatibility across all operating systems, mobile & desktop, for example.<\/p>\n