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James McDonough

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
158 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

I had no money when I started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Excited.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

So Seaforge is the company's name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

The platform is called Fatfinger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Our customers named it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And it came from my work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

I worked my entire life in heavy industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And basically, we enable frontline employees to build apps in seconds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And so those apps are typically based around forms, procedures, checklists, anything that Bob is walking around in, maybe an oil refinery or a field service worker is doing things like safety, quality, field tickets, anything on a clipboard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Bob is able to build an app for himself or his team or his company with no code, not low code in basically seconds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

So it starts from an end user or bottom of the pyramid and it starts working its way up when they start adopting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

So, you know, they start searching around and now Bob is kind of in our generation and kind of, you know, not using paper and wanting to be mobile enabled.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

So they start searching around, find Fatfinger, sign up to our free trial, go through our 60 second tutorial and, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

At the end of it, he's created his first custom app, and then that really gets the wheels spinning, the juices flowing to say, wow, I could not only do my original intent, which might have been his safety inspection, but then, oh, why aren't we doing our XYZ processes or procedures?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And that starts...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

um, you know, maybe sharing the app with other people or, or gaining momentum.

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