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David Ernest

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
109 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Okay, awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

So while we were running our full-time jobs, I and my co-founder were software engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Yeah, we used to run a mini-agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

So we used to build internal tools for our clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

And we figured out two problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Internal tools, built with professional means it takes a lot of time to come up with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

I mean, you spend so much time to build a product, maybe two months, three months to build an internal product, internal tools to manage your operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

um yeah so that was the first problem we noticed and number two was that no two businesses have the same same processes so we didn't want to like solve the problems of like maybe um 50 businesses was kind of like you know length for us so we wanted to build something that could serve all problems and then this so the the current version of our products is the second iteration so we we tried it out um some years back and it like failed but we like you know went back to dream but and you know took a no code approach to build this

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Yeah, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Yeah, we've hired our first full-time person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

We have about 20 people on the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

20?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

So we have a large engineering team right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Okay, so I'm based in Lagos, Nigeria, and it's pretty much, so of course we have like a very like, you know, diverse team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

So we're based in Nigeria and Canada, but most of our engineering team is here in Nigeria and it's pretty much not as expensive as it is over there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

Basically like a thousand dollars per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Quabbly Helps teams Build Internal Apps, Raises at $4m Valuation, First 10 Customers

About $7,000.