Small but annoying shortcomings
It's a nice and lightweight bag, but it has some shortcomings that are not obvious while reading about it on the website or checking reviews, but are immediately apparent once you hold it in your hands. It's really lightweight. That is great, but actually the material is so thin that even the slightest damage or defect spells doom on the bag.
I also like that it's quite a large bag, it easily fits my 15" Macbook Air even with a Tomtoc case! However, the zip opening on the top is way narrower than the actual bag on both ends, so much so that it's impossible to fit the laptop straight in, you need to heavily fiddle with it, which makes little sense, as it should easily fit. It's probably done this way to make it some structural rigidity and prevent the zip from tearing, but still, it's annoying.
Don't even think about putting your laptop in without a case though, as that zipper has no protection or extra layer, so it will just scratch anything. Also because of this, I'm not convinced this will withstand any real rain, even if the material is waterproof: the zip on the top itself is not the waterproofed YKK, it's a regular one without the extra material to protect water from leaking inside the bag. I'd call it splash resistant as it is, which is insane, because it could be improved so easily. Again: small annoyances.
Speaking of annoyances, there's the inner pouch, which is great! Well if you only have your phone that you want in there that is, because it's a single large piece of fabric pouch. If only it had a divider or something, it would be great! But this way it's a single large piece of space where your phone will get scratched if you put any metal in there. My Ridge wallet would make sense to go in there with the phone, because otherwise it just gets lost on the bottomless pit beneath, but I won't put it in the same pocket as the phone.
There's a little slot for a carabiner to hold your keys. But why not go the extra mile and probably 3 cents and provide a plastic hook like the one in the Bellroy pouch to actually hold any keys right out of the box? It just makes no sense to me how this was not thought of in the design phase. This is just an extra hurdle, at least offer the option as a paid addon while ordering the bag.
All in all I think it's a good concept, but there are several improvements that should be made to make it a really great product.
