Salgode

During the October 2019 protests in Santiago, the subway system was severely damaged by fires, leaving thousands of people without transportation. That happened on a Friday, so next morning I go get my breakfast at home and my sister says "Hey, you study computers. Why don't you make a carpooling app?" and I was immedeately offended. Was she crazy? Does she even know how much time and effort getting a working ride-sharing app takes? after 5 minutes thinking about it, i knew i had to do it.

That same Saturday day i got together with some friends from Varus(LINK) and started building. By Sunday we shared the initiative in some university groups and by Monday we had about 20 developers contributing to the project!. we where totlly overwhelmed by the reception. by the end of the week we had about 40 contributing developers and many more from other areas liek design, marketing and else.

We ended up shipping a react native app three weeks later. At that point some of the momentum had gone awaya but we still had about 2000 people sign up completely organizally. that's when we learnt the hard lesson. Creating the app was the easy part, setting up a two-sided marketplace to work was way harder than we expected. We had demand but no offerings.