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Bailey Pumfleet

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
207 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

I don't know whether it even translated time zones properly, but we launched it on Product Hunt because already there were people piling up with the wait list for this grew to like...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

I think it grew to like thousands before we'd even shared that we're actually building it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Um, and so we launched it on product hunt and literally that day we had a whole bunch of signups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Uh, I'm not actually sure on the range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

To be fair, I mean, I think maybe up to 50, which at the time we didn't actually have... Customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Yeah, actual paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

How many signups though?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Well, I mean, ultimately every signup was a paying customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

No, no, we didn't do a free plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

We basically, it was so early stage that we just didn't, we didn't even have a solid commercial foot for this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

We only started to think about that at later stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

It was more of a kind of buy it if you're interested and to support the open source.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Obviously, you can run this thing and self-host it for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

You still

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

can to this day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

The point is you just pay for the SaaS version if you just want an easy solution and want to support open source.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

There are lots of companies that do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

I mean like Metabase or GitLab now has a free plan but there are a lot of open source companies out there where it's like if you want it for free run it yourself but if you want this like