Re:Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014
by dietervds on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @09:22AM
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I'm doing the same for Belgium actually, and possibly The Netherlands, in time. (http://afspraakherinnering.be)
It's in it's early stages. I'm waiting to e-mail Patrick when I can say "Thanks to you I now have >500€ MRR" :-)
I sent you an e-mail to talk about it some more and share experiences! Always great to learn of similar endeavours.
My approach is more high-touch - I don't rely on people searching for "Terminerinnerung" ("Appointment reminder") and then coming to my website. I think most doctors don't do that. I go out and talk to them.
I also by default offer to develop integrations into the customer's existing appointment reminder system - because the majority (~66%) of my potential customers here already have some computer system. This means reverse engineering the customer's existing system to be able to continuously export its data. I did this successfully for one of my customers (it was a Java/MySQL application). The other customer I developed a web calendar for.
I have now completed the development for my first two customers (I hadn't completed development when I sold the service to them. I just pretended I had, to make the sale). At the beginning of next year I'll start to acquire more (enterprise) customers.
I'm happy to talk about this via email if anybody's interested. My address is [my first name]@[my last name].io (Michael Herrmann).