Kagan: Calendly competitor TidyCal has grown 5x this year
Noah Kagan · Episode 698 | How to Launch a Million Dollar Business (With Noah... · Jan 30, 2024 · at 12:38
Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo, talks to Rob Walling about AppSumo's internally built product experiments and software tools.
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“And I was telling you tidycal.com, our calendar, Calendly alternative is crushing. It's like five X growth this year. And that's one of about 10 products that we've launched on the original team.”
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