File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

- it's fast (great!)

- it can't play videos in preview pane (very bad) or display some types of images (webp)

- design is nice but there is too much padding in thumbnail view and no way to control it (not good)

- it's super similar to Files - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nghp3dx8hdx?hl=en-US&gl=U... , except that one can play videos and is more than 20x cheaper

- price, the Files I mentioned cost $8.99, I'd never thought i'd dish out any money on file explorer but here we go, yours is faster and if the full release will perfect the areas i mentioned, id pay up to $19 for it ... now asking $200 for file explorer is just mad ... i am in B2B so I know pains of dev software, but if I see such price, Id just be giving imaginary thumbs up to people who pirate this instead, unless this has some crazy super powers and is meant for some very specific professionals for business (I don't see the use case), there is no justification for such price, even from point of view of maximum greed I highly doubt with such prices youd be squeezing the most revenue out of market you could, the yearly plan is more of a slap in a face, software without updates is useless, especially since its early in development and will see lot of basic polish in first few years if worked on .. i wouldn't buy it, but something along $49 for it wouldn't at least scream offensive ... id just look at that with disappointment and move on, even that would be basically asking for the price of AAA videogame, for minor improvement of utility in Windows

- that said, good luck ... I saw lot of people here post what they use; i dont want to offend anyone, but seems devs don't have cells for visual taste, those don't compare with yours, but you seem to have the speed of those (sort of, once i opened folder with 4k images, it completely froze for a full minute, windows explorer wouldn't do that, so ... speed is good, but can't sacrifice reliability for it.)

And many more things to come. Since this was built from scratch, a lot of time and enginering effort was put into building a solid base. I'm in a phase where adding new stuff is fairly frictionless, so it's gonna get a lot better in the coming months.

That being said, it's only 3 years old, very young compared to other long time players. So, it's not comparable feature for feature, yet.

Is there a forum, or something non-Discord where you can see community-answered tech questions previously asked (without having to log into anything)?