Rentoni on air!

On Monday January 26th in Polish Radio Szczenin in broadcast “Trącić myszką” our new on-line service Rentoni was mentioned.

The author of this broadcast Mr. Jarek Dalecki  talked to Mr. Maciej Dziurla - the main author of Rentoni.

- Jarek Dalecki: I was surprised by the next initiative, especially by the usability of it. How many times did we lend or borrow something and never got it back? Now we know how to help it. I have Mr. Maciej Dziurla on the phone. Welcome Maciej.

- Maciej Dziurla: Hello.

- J.D.: Maciej represents MPlab, and you are the authors of a new on-line service, which reminds everyone that he has something to give it back, is it right?

- M.D.: Exactly, maybe I begin with the genesis. As you mentioned before, people lend and borrow things and then forget who they belong to. The second inspiration was the movie “The Borrowers” based on the novel of the same title. These two things made us to create an on-line service that solves this problem. It is in english, because people on the whole world have the same, common problems.

- J.D.: In Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Africa or Australia there are common problems. Maciej, I thought that inspiration was that somebody borrowed something from you and you never got it back, what made you so angry that you decided to do something with it.

- M.D.: Yes, it happened propably thousand of times. We were looking for something like that in Internet, because we didn’t want to create something what already has been created. We have been thinking about it over a half of the year or even longer, and finally we decided to created it. We launch it one day before Christmas. We called it Rentoni and it was our Christmas gift for everyone on the world. The website is www.rentoni.com, and it’s international. Further more, it is totally for free! On this site we put most needed information – how does Rentoni work, registration form, etc. It is very easy in daily use – you just have to define people, lent or borrowed things and suspected return date. Two days before the deadline date Rentoni will send you and a related person (if desired) email reminders. System automatically checks the time zone of all users and send reminders at 6 am. We are planning to add more useful functions like reminding by text messages on mobile and more, depends what users will desire in the future.

- J.D.: I have even some more usability ideas. People often forget to take back the laundry from dry-cleaners’s, mangle, or about doctor’s appointment. With Rentoni and additional options remembering about things like that will be unnecessary to remember about it anymore.

- M.D.: Of course, we can use Rentoni for such things, but to be clear, we want concentrate on the core function – borrowed and lent things reminder. In the future, we probably integrate Rentoni with some other social network websites, like facebook. You are welcome to visit the website www.rentoni.com.

- J.D.: Mr. Maciej Dziurla was my today’s guest. Thank you.

- M.D.: Thank you.