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Seriously. I reimplemented and launched the core scheduling features from scratch in like 12 days. React and firestore. Then google calendar integration was something on the order of another day or two.

Very useful little thing, but I sure don't know how you could spend $350 million doing it. The company I made it for absolutely is nowhere in sight of a number like that.

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scheduling is simple in the core but gets very complex fast. intake forms, wait lists, classes, multiple appointment calendars, resource limits (say for example company cars ), overlapping appointments , multiple bookings at once (hair cut, dye, blow out) that might require synchronization of multiple people’s schedules, rescheduling and limits on it, handling no shows, etc, not to mention the number of integrations. it’s also a huge market, both for major enterprise companies and literally millions of single proprietors running businesses that make money through appointments

The market value of a solution is not equal to the inputs/resources that it took to create the solution. I doubt they spent anywhere near their company's value creating it.

Indeed. Rare as it is these days, a sign of a good business can be that its outputs are bigger than its inputs.

I didn't say that. Calendly took $350 million from investors. That isn't what their product is earning in the market; it's what they're using to build it. That's what's wild.

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