About Please
Please is a new generation travel platform that saves users time and money, and gives them more control and a more customised experience, while simultaneously opening the travel industry to the sharing and decentralized economies.
While there are several trip booking sites that appear to be similar to Please, they are all variations of the old do-it-yourself model. That is, users still have to spend time looking at options, making choices, and then individually booking the different elements of their trip.
Our marketplace serves three different users: Content Creators plan comprehensive, pre-designed, customisable trips leveraging local knowledge of the intended destination.
Travelers book those trips in a few minutes without having to leave our platform and pay with a credit card or crypto-currencies. Service Providers from both the traditional and sharing economies (hotels & home rentals, restaurants & amateur chefs, professional tour organisers & local hobbyists, taxis & local drivers, etc.) can add their service to the platform and decide to deploy it as a smart contract.
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Rated on Nov 11, 2018
Modified on Nov 12, 2018
Hard cap19500000 USD
→ What is the soft cap?
Beautiful domain name please.com.
MVP is not found at App Store or Google Play.
All the best!
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Romain Barissat
ICO team member replied on 11 Nov 2018
Hi Clemen,
Thank you for taking the time to rate our ICO.
We don't have a soft cap because we are already live on https://please.com - You can go ahead and book your next vacation and pay with crypto ;-)
Our MVP is still there on https://demo.please.com - You can add a service to see how we made the blockchain deployment process easy.
We have not published the smart contract features on our live website yet because we will refactor our smart contracts and get them audited after we raise money from our ICO. Hence why we have a MVP alongside our main product.
App Store / Google Play versions will be released next year, as per our roadmap.
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Dear Romain
Thank you for your reply.
It is important to have a soft cap target. This is to inform your community how much minimum you need to raise in this ICO in order for the project to execute according to its plan.
All the best!


Rated on Nov 9, 2018
I like the idea of pre-designed but still customisable trips. Would need to see the partners they are able to on board to gauge the success of this project. Team does not seem to have much expertise in the travel industry.

Thanks for your review.
We have just updated our partners page (https://protocol.please.com/#partners) and there are many more to come.
Half our management team has experience in Web/IT and the other half have experience in the tourism industry:
Our Product Manager has worked for HotelsPro and our CMO has launched LivingSocial.
I believe we have a good balance: Sarper and Kristi bring some good knowledge about how this industry works while Vladimir and myself are challenging the way things are done in the industry and provide a fresh look.
We've also just "on-boarded" another advisor (Executive roles in Singapore Airlines, Accor, and Avis/Budget car rentals)

Rated on Nov 12, 2018
A huge market with enormous potential for scalability.
Good adoption of blockchain and token economy is well planned.
Requires strong team to delivery vision

Thank you for your rating and analysis.

Rated on Nov 9, 2018
Modified on Nov 9, 2018
White paper - The white paper has outlined the problems related to the tourism industry and outlined possible solutions of pre-designed yet customized travel trips. The benefits of using blockchain have been established clearly. The white paper almost has all the details for investors to make an informed decision.
Team - The core team is competent and diverse along with a small advisory board. The team lacks “visible” experience in the travel industry.
Tokenomics - The token allotment and funds distribution is well within reasonable limits.
Business Model - The business model requires partnerships and collaborations which has been clearly highlighted. They already have a running business with a usable platform. A big positive for any project.
How “unbankable” customers can be on-boarded esp in a country like India (S.E Asia in general) since crypto is kind of illegal in these areas? How do you plan to incentivize providers and investors to hold the coin? Not clear.
MVP/ DApp/ Working Product - They already have a fully working product.

Thank you for your feedback.
Half our management team has experience in Web/IT and the other half have experience in the tourism industry:
Our Product Manager has worked for HotelsPro and our CMO has launched LivingSocial.
I believe we have a good balance: Sarper and Kristi bring some good knowledge about how this industry works while Vladimir and myself are challenging the way things are done in the industry and provide a fresh look.
We've also just "on-boarded" another advisor (Executive roles in Singapore Airlines, Accor, and Avis/Budget car rentals)
I am not sure I understand your comment about "unbankable" customers. We are not solving the "unbankable" issue, other startups are hard at work on this matter. However we make sure that anybody with a debit/credit card or a crypto wallet can use our services, I would assume this will represent 99% of travelers. Also, our Global Reward Pool will award PLS for contributors to our platform, so anybody could earn PLS. For example, you could develop a couple new features in our open source repo and then use those tokens to go on a week-end trip!
Regarding holding the coin, we have two kinds of staking:
- Stake for exclusive offers and deals with Please Prime: $49 due in tokens that are given back 1 year later.
- Stake to increase your voting power and influence the way the Global Reward Pool is spent.
- We are also currently finalizing another incentive for PreICO & ICO buyers to hold the coin. Stay tuned!

Rated on Nov 14, 2018
They are launching the ICO with a working MVP/demo. That's already an advantage.
The team looks professional enough as to take a project like this forward with a good chance of success, at least in the technical side.
Tokenomics are reasonable, taking into consideration they are allocating 19% for the global reward pool.
As for the Vision, I think we'll see a lot of projects like this in the near future but, in their favor, the product looks very professional and the UX is quite good. Also they are one of the first ones, so they will have some leverage there.
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Rated on Nov 22, 2018
Please aims to decentralize the travel industry by connecting providers and travelers in a platform that is easy to use and rewards service providers and content creators while making it easy for the traveler to pick the perfect trip to it's needs.
I really like how far along the project as come before they even though on raising money via an ICO. This shows their commitment to the project and that they are in it for the long haul.
Instead of forcing users to directly use blockchain technology, they make it transparent via what they call an xApp, which basically is a software-less and friendly way to use the application while supporting both regular and blockchain payments = huge!
The incentives offered to the provider and the token metrics look good, with a 19% global reward pool.
While a number of partnerships have been formed, I believe that for the project to grow significantly (and as such it's token economy), a stronger team (and/or advisors) of travel industry experts need to be on-boarded to offer the necessary experience and connections on a very competitive industry. Fortunately from the reviews/comments seen here it seems that they are doing just that so it's another positive sign.

Rated on Nov 12, 2018
Modified on Feb 19, 2019
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Bonus
If you don't transfer your tokens received from the token sale for a certain period of time, you will receive bonus tokens from the Global Reward Pool. 6 months = 20% bonus 12 months = 50% bonus 18 months = 80% bonus
Investment info
Milestones
Initial idea
The perfect melting pot: The travel industry is too fragmented, blockchain applications are rising, people are looking for more authentic travel experiences.
PoT Development starts
The objective was to find and test different technical solutions (Proof of Technology).
Hybrid platform pivot
Following the cryptokitties impact on Ethereum, we decided not to rely completely on the Blockchain and steer development towards an even more hybrid architecture.
MVP development starts
After the PoT was complete, we started developing our MVP with a much nicer UI, the objective was to demonstrate searching trips and services through voice and deploying services as smart contracts.
MVP Release Production development starts
The beta version was working as expected and we started migrating towards a more robust and scalable architecture. We decided to focus on the centralized part of our xApp and push the decentralized part to after our ICO.
Partners Outreach
We have reached a development stage that allows us to start reaching out to partners. We already got some good feedback and are undergoing partnership discussions.
Trip Creators feedback loop
We have reached out to several trip creators (influencers, guide books, etc.) and have already incorporated a lot of their feedback in our product.
Production launch: Please.com & Please.bot
Our first production-ready products are our marketplace and our chatbot. We are now able to start gathering people to create many trips on our platform.
PreICO
The aim of the PreICO is to give us a head start to work on the decentralized parts of our platform, namely our Blockchain protocol.
Online Advertising Campaigns
We will have enough trips to start the online advertising campaigns to bring travelers on our platform just in time for the 1st summer booking rush happening just after christmas.
ICO
Our ICO acts as our first funding round to accomplish our vision to build and promote the first user-friendly travel platform to bridge the gap between centralized and decentralized services.
Exchanges listing
Following the end of our token sale, PLS will be listed on exchanges.
Production launch: "Trips mobile app"
We will launch our mobile app with an innovative UI to find and book trips quickly and easily on the go.
Production launch: "Decentralized services on Ethereum"
After optimising and auditing our smart contracts, we'll be ready to launch our first decentralized features in a production environment. Auditor will be selected by a Please Assembly vote.
Production launch: "Decentralized services on 2nd blockchain"
After optimising our infrastructure and developing our second set of smart contracts, we'll be ready to bring our second selected blockchain in our production environment.
Marketing Campaign: "Expansion in key cities"
One year after our initial launch, we will know a lot about our users. Our infrastructure and features will be optimized to attract a new massive influx of travelers, trip creators, and service providers.