I've been itching to get my side of the story out, but without proper confirmation and go-signal for the boss I'm working for, as I answer to the CEO of Kreyos, I'll just publish a LinkedIN article with my own personal experience so far, and say my piece to the people who are trying to look up Kreyos management here.

It has not been a fun ride. From the start (I joined mid-April 2014) up until now, I had encountered a lot of problems, things I need to fix and sort, there's a lot of new stuff that I had to wade through just so I can get my sense of balance when I got in the company. A couple of months later, just when I thought things are looking up and we're working our way to progress, the angry internet mob had raised the stakes and a different set of problems/stress appeared.

If I am not part of the company, and I backed or bought a pre-ordered watch, I would probably react exactly the same as the angry people from this thread. But as it stands, I knew what happened (at least at the latter part of the development), and despite the hard work that the people part of the Kreyos team (whether the old team, the new team, or of what remained of it) had done, those will remain unseen, undervalued, and people will still hate the "team" that made Kreyos.

Actually, almost everyone in the Kreyos team right now is new to the company. The promised potential of the product had invited us over to join the mobile dev team into making it come true. Like the backers, we also wanted the Kreyos Smartwatch work and make it worth their money. Unfortunately, a lot of factors contributed to the failure to deliver as promised. And we got what most people are calling, a scampaign right now.

At most, what I can do as one of the management around to watch the fire burn is keep things running. Send out weekly software app updates and slowly work on the kinks to make the Kreyos Meteor a better smartwatch than it is now.

Just keep calm and do your job.

That's the current motto I have for me and my team as of now.

I want to tell more, share more things just because as an emphatic leader, I've always dealt with people better if I can share myself out there. But I can't. Not yet anyway. So while I'm silently watching something I value get burned/persecuted for not being up to people's standards. I hope that one day, I can look back and say, I have made it through all that. If I can go through that kind of hell, I am ready to face more challenging roles and tasks ahead of me.

UPDATE: People think I'm posting this to save face, to not accept responsibility, to cry and complain that we're taking in all this hate for no good reason. Some are even using the "Millennial generation are entitled" argument. But NO, this post is purely for my selfish reason of wanting to say my piece. To reassure my team that I got their back and that our responsibility right now is to fix things and do our job. I can't say a lot more because I can't, legally. For people looking for more ammo against the company, I can't help you there. But for those who wanted to know my side of the story, here it is. Take it as it is. A ramble of a project lead who meant well.