News

Wed, 12/04/2019 - 00:39

Design Terminal mentoring program

One of the big things for us this year is being accepted into Design Terminal's startup mentoring program. Since October we're being helped by amazing knowledgeable mentors in the process of building Useeme as a brand and as a startup company. We'll report back with a detailed summary in January 2020 when the program finishes.
Mon, 03/04/2019 - 17:04

Price cuts, price cuts!

The feedback we received so far from customers and customers-to-be is really pleasing. One thing some people mentioned is that the product is a bit pricey. We heard that worked to reduce our manufacturing costs so we can sell Useeme cheaper. We're happy to announce that from today on, Useeme wristbands will cost less than ever before. We also made ...
Wed, 12/12/2018 - 11:54

Christmas order deadlines

As lot of our wonderful customers order Useeme as a Christmas present for someone, we'd like to give you the deadlines so you surely get your orders before Christmas. Orders placed before 10am get shipped the same day, orders placed after 10 am get shipped the day after. Order deadlines with free Economy shipping: UK: 17. December 10:00 DE: 17 ...
Wed, 10/17/2018 - 14:08

Free shipping to the UK now available

After a successful debut at Cycle Show in Birmingham 2 weeks ago, we established a small stock in the UK and will deliver orders to UK addresses domestically. What does this mean for you? If you order to a UK shipping address, you will get FREE SHIPPING. Simply enter your shipping address at checkout, then click "Recalculate shipping" and select ...
Wed, 10/03/2018 - 17:58

Reactions at Cycle Show

Back from an amazing Cycle Show in Birmingham. We had our own stand and had lot of people try out Useeme indicator wristbands. Everyone seemed to love it. I'll write about the Show in detail later, here's a quick cut of some visitor reactions.
Fri, 09/21/2018 - 14:09

Fall 2018 update - we're going to Cycle Show Birmingham

In case you were wondering what we’re up to lately, I’m here with an update. Useeme Bike Turn Signals are in serial production since May 2018, we already built up a nice stock. All preorders from our Indiegogo campaign are delivered and we have webshop sales coming in nicely which means there are hundreds of people around the world using ...
Useeme website screenshot
Wed, 05/09/2018 - 18:48

Webshop done, delivery starts

While colleagues and machines are working to produce more and more Useeme Bike Turn Signals, we achieved some other great things recently too. First, we launched this website. Months of work went into it, Greg created a beautiful new design and I built the site using a great content management framework called Drupal. The site also includes a webshop so ...
Tue, 04/17/2018 - 17:23

Useeme is ready!

We made it! After 8 years of hard work the first batch of Useeme Bike Turn Signals are ready. Boxes arrive end of this week and then we're really-really ready to send these cool wristbands out to customers. It was a tough ride to get there, but I truly think we built something amazing. We hope you'll love it too ...
Fri, 01/26/2018 - 20:15

New look, new website

We're preparing for the start of serial production and the launch of Useeme as a product in spring 2018. To present everything properly, our designer Greg created a new logo, a box for our product, and amazing sleek website design. The new website will be based on the most recent version (8) of the Drupal content management framework, using Drupal ...
Mon, 08/28/2017 - 13:52

Let's do this!

Dear friends, We're happy to report that we're still here, and we've never been closer to turn the idea of Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals into an actual product. Actually, the product is ready. It works perfectly, does evertyhing we ever promised and more. The final version of Useeme Bicycle Turn signals features a new design with extremely bright LEDs, has ...
Useeme battery test graph
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 15:53

Things start to look bright

I guess some of you already wrote off Useeme as a project that failed. To be honest, at some point we almost wrote it off too. Then we took a deep breath, and decided to keep working. We gathered a new team of engineers to tackle the challenges all previous teams failed to solve. We needed a new, much more ...
Tue, 06/28/2016 - 15:00

A new hope

We finally found the engineers we were looking for. Gergely, István and Ricsi are now working on the product and they already have the trickiest part down: we have the new software. It's super-reliable and works as it should. We'll report back with videos in a couple of weeks. For now, please just be assured that we're still committed make ...
Fri, 01/15/2016 - 18:26

Finding the right guys...

Dear Friends, At the moment we're evaluating offers from 2 development teams and waiting for an offer from a third team. By the end of January we'll make our choice and trust one of the teams to finish the programming for Useeme Bicycle Turn signals. We'll keep you posted. We're aware of some emails piled up in our support inbox ...
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 14:03

Autumn update - one step back

Dear friends & supporters. Let me share the latest news on the development of Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals. As most of you know, we spent most of this year waiting for our programmers to finally give the green light on the program of the new microcontroller. Their task was to achieve at least 95% reliability in the detection of hand ...
Color variations from of Useeme Bike Turn Signals
Thu, 08/13/2015 - 07:00

Summer update

Dear friends and supporters, Please excuse us for leaving you without an update for a long time. We hope you had a great summer so far, ours was nice but a bit frustrating. The development of Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals is still in progress, but it's going slow. We have 2 engineers working on programming the microcontroller, and they are ...
Useeme color variations
Mon, 05/11/2015 - 14:02

May update

(Re-posting the Indiegogo campaign update we sent out recently.) At the moment there are 2 obstacles left to overcome before starting serial production of Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals. 1. Programming Our new engineer, Gergely is working hard to finish the completely rewritten program of the microcontroller. It's working nicely in general but still needs to be refined a bit to ...
Sun, 03/29/2015 - 13:15

Spring is here

Spring is almost here in Europe, we already had some nice outdoor rides and worked a lot to finish the new Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals. Here's what we achieved since the last update. We got the final color, and the proper additive to create it, all from a local supplier. It's a deep orange, stylish and very visible at the ...
Tue, 01/27/2015 - 18:41

Almost there

Dear friends and supporters, We are working hard to finish Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals but we faced some serious difficulties during the last 2 months which delay the process some more. Here's a brief status report for you. After endless rounds of adjusting the designs, the new moulding forms are promised to be ready next week. We'll need to do ...
Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:52

Contact form problems fixed

We discovered that the contact form on our website had some problems during the last couple of weeks. Some messages sent to us might have been lost. If you sent us a message through the contact form and didn't get a reply, please send it again, or send it in an e-mail to hello@useeme.eu. Contact form is now fixed and ...
Computer drawing of the new Useeme design
Wed, 10/29/2014 - 22:45

Latest developments

Dear friends and supporters! We want to give you an update about the development of Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals. We are working hard to finish the product and bring it to you. Some of you already preordered Useeme during our IndieGogo campaign. To you guys, we owe an apology for the delay. We promised to deliver the wristbands this autumn ...
Fri, 09/12/2014 - 09:36

A long overdue update

We have a very-very busy summer behind us, it's time to sum up what happened since we started our crowdfunding campaign on IndieGogo.The campaign was a great success in terms of positive feedback, we were contacted by a lot of people, businesses and media who are enthusiastic about Useeme Bicycle Turn Signals. It validated the idea we've been working on ...