Luis Calvillo

@luiscalvillo
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Entrepreneur, and iOS Developer | Co-founder & CTO @ WhattaEat | Original founder of ShredSpots | Follow for startups, tech, app launch hacks!
Personal Websitehttps://luiscalvillo.com
WhattaEathttps://whattaeat.com

Most founders obsess over their product 10x more than their brand.

Wrong focus.

Your brand is the emotional moat:
Trust, vibe, belonging.

That actually keeps users when a cheaper clone shows up.

Product gets you in the door. Brand decides if they stay.
#startups #founders

I used to think I needed to perfect everything before launching.

But launching early helped me learn faster than anything else.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned building apps:
you don’t learn from building: you learn from people using your product.

I wrote more about it here:
https://luiscalvillo.com/why-founders-should-launch-their-mvp-early-before-its-perfect/

#startups #indiedev #buildinpublic

Why Founders Should Launch Their MVP Early (Before It's Perfect) - Luis Calvillo | iOS Developer & Tech Founder

One of the biggest reasons a startup fails isn’t because the product is bad – it’s because founders wait too long to launch their MVP. My most important piece of advice:Get it out there, even if it’s rough around the edges. Shipping it early lets you validate your idea, hear what actual users think, and […]

Luis Calvillo | iOS Developer & Tech Founder

We have a new blog for our startup, WhattaEat! A food discovery app.

Intro:

Why We Built WhattaEat

Deciding where to eat should be easy. Yet it often becomes frustrating when searching through written reviews, photos, and restaurant listings...

#startups #apps

Read the rest of our story here 👇
https://www.whattaeat.com/blog/why-we-built-whattaeat

WhattaEat

Social Food Discovery

Excited to share that my co-founder and I were featured on Hispanos Unidos for our WhattaEat app!

Read below 👇
https://hispanosnews.com/la-gente-luis-calvillo-and-jose-acevedo-building-tech-that-highlights-local-food

La Gente: Luis Calvillo and José Acevedo, Building Tech That Highlights Local Food - Hispanos News

More Than an App: How WhattaEat Founders Luis Calvillo and José Acevedo Are Using Food to Build Community Before downloads.Before star ratings.Before algorithms decided what we see. There was a simple question: “What do you want to eat?” For José Acevedo and Luis Calvillo, two Latino founders from Southern California, that question became a mission. […]

Hispanos News

WhattaEat officially launches today in the App Store! 🎉 The next generation in social food discovery.

Download in the App Store 👇
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whattaeat/id1570417345

Marketing, Branding, Sales.
Which one do you think is most important?
Is everyone vibe coding their MVPs these days?
Who is still hand coding?

The riches are in the niches

#startups

Been seeing online services for code cleanups and fixers for vibe-coded projects. Anyone else notice this too?