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Rami El Chamaa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
212 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

Now, I prefer not to go into the details of the new strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

Yeah, let's talk about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

I mean, it's a pretty interesting story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

So it's actually my co-founder, Jared Morse.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

He's in Portland, Oregon in the US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

And so he was working at a previous company in Portland.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

He saw that it took too much time to schedule a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

appointments through Google and add it to the calendar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

So he thought like, let's, let's, let's build a web app that integrates with Google calendar and that like allows people to like choose a time and let the event go directly to the calendar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

This was, uh, this was, this was the beginning of a pointlet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

This was the initial version of a pointlet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

And, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

And after that, I mean, Jared is, I mean, at the time, he was mainly a developer, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

So he didn't really know maybe what to do next.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

Or maybe he very well did know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

So he submitted a thread on Reddit, like, just built a web app, and now what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

This was like four years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

And me, I was like 21 at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

I just saw the thread and I looked at the software and I said, like, this can be pretty good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa

This is a pretty neat idea.