Cal.com started as a scheduling tool built while working on Leanhire, a remote work marketplace. The team open-sourced it, then focused on the consumer product first to understand real scheduling problems and build better APIs for developers later.
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You know, this is actually very interesting because the initial product that I wanted to build was actually Carol Platform, right? So when I was working on Leanhire, I was desperately looking for a plug-and-play customizable solution for my marketplace, right? I was connecting remote workers with companies. And we then launched an open source repo and people started contributing, but We got, I wouldn't say sidetracked because ultimately our vision has always been to build a fantastic consumer-facing product and a developer-focused product. But we really focused on the consumer-facing product initially just to really understand the industry, the pains of scheduling, but also to build out the world's best components and the best APIs to do that.