The road to launch

WannaCall took longer to build than we first planned. There was no big funding round and no overnight success story. Just years of building, testing, redesigning and refining a product we believed in.

The Kickstarter we did not run

For a while, crowdfunding looked like the obvious next step. We had an idea we believed in and, like most small teams, not much money. Kickstarter seemed to promise validation, a community and funding all at once.

The more we researched it, the clearer the reality became. Successful campaigns rarely win because the idea is good; they win on months of audience-building and marketing done long before the campaign goes live. For software especially, we read story after story of great products that raised nothing, not because they were bad, but because nobody knew they existed. And a failed campaign does not just miss a target, it drains momentum. That was a risk we could not justify, so we made the other choice: keep building it ourselves, one step at a time.

Building deliberately

Building with limited resources is not glamorous. Progress is slower, every feature takes longer, and every decision carries more weight. But it forces a kind of focus that funding can paper over. Without outside pressure we had the freedom to rethink ideas when they were wrong and build WannaCall to our own vision rather than to a quarterly milestone.

What we ended up with

One simple thing: a way to reach the professionals, experts and creators who are usually just out of reach, over a per-minute video call. You see the rate up front, choose your minutes, and pay for exactly the time you use. No subscriptions, no hourly minimums, no guesswork.

The finish line is finally in sight. Join the waitlist and you will be among the first to know the day the apps go live.