Hello, Heavybit đź‘‹

Timekit is becoming a member of Heavybit – James Lindenbaum’s developer-focused clubhouse on 9th St. in SOMA, San Francisco.

Jesper Klingenberg
Published in
3 min readJan 23, 2017

--

Two years ago, we started a Timekit because we wanted to create a better way for anyone to get fully-featured and beautiful online booking flows. We wanted to help the millions of companies who have outdated software solutions from another era and their customers who deal with unintuitive booking flows.

With more than 7,000 developers and designers on our platform, and thousands of booking widgets spread across the web - I’m proud of how far we have come. However, there still much work to do and so many companies to help.

That’s why I’m happy to share that we’re joining Heavybit Industries — a membership organization for developer-focused companies. It’s a community of like-minded companies and people and we are excited to be part of a family that includes companies like Stripe, Pagerduty, Rainforest and CircleCI just to name a few. See the entire list of members here

Why are we joining Heavybit?

Building a company is tough and risky. The statistics don’t speak in our favor and you don’t really know what works and what doesn’t work before it does. I remember a fantastic talk by Chamath Palihapitiya the former head of growth at Facebook and the person who helped them grow to 1 billion users (and now the founder of Social Capital).

One quote from his talk frames the situation in particular. When explaining how they put Facebook on the path to a billion users he says:

It’s not some covert secret shit happening in the backroom, colluding with the government, and coming up with some silver bullet.

…I kinda just tell people that actually, we just looked at a lot of data, we measured a lot of stuff, we tested a lot of stuff, and we tried a lot of stuff.

See the full video here

Building a great software company is a mix of some great technology, a great product, a great business model and a great culture. But what makes each component great is really hard to know.

Like Chamath says — it’s about trying a lot of “stuff” — but it’s also about sharing your results (or lack of) with really clever people, who have done similar things before. Not because they know exactly what you should do, but because they are able to give feedback that is 2% more qualified and potentially could help you see things in a different way.

So with Heavybit, we are becoming part of a family of extraordinary founders and early employees of their companies, with whom we can share ideas and insights with on daily basis. For us, it’s about being able to share things with a group of like-minded.

Heavybit, we’re excited to be part of the family ✌️

Jesper
Co-founder of Timekit

--

--