Scheduled's story

Scheduled is a Notion integration built by me (Julien Collet πŸ‘‹) as a solopreneur. Here is the story of a SaaS from Reunion Island.

A few words about me

I'm Julien, and I'm a passionate maker. I learned coding more than 10 years ago, and during those years, I never spent a moment without coding.
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After my studies, I tried to launch my first company, which was an epic failure. Then, I had the opportunity to work with great companies like OCTO Technology as a software engineer and Qonto as a growth engineer. Both were the perfect combination to learn how to make things better and how to execute fast. After Qonto, I launched a company with my ex-colleagues. We joined Y Combinator, raised money, and hired a few people. It was an incredible adventure!
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But running and growing a startup at this level was not for me. I finally decided to leave the company (and Paris after 12 years living there) to return to my family for La RΓ©union. I took a 4-month break before thinking about a new adventure. I knew what I wanted. A small business where I can do what I want as a solopreneur.
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A few words about Scheduled

In the beginning, Scheduled was not Scheduled. It was Split. A SaaS to help content creators to write, split their content for multiple social platforms, and schedule them.
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Bad idea because everyone compared Split to Buffer or Hootsuite. Of course, it takes a lot of work to build better software as a solopreneur vs. a full-team company with money. So, I killed it.
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Instead of trying to understand how to twist the product, I restarted from zero. The goal: "Do not reinvent the wheel!". If Buffer and Hootsuite do the job, why do we need Split?
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For 1 month, I did what I wanted to ease with my product but only with the tools on the table. I write my content on Notion for a better organization and use Buffer to schedule it on social platforms like LinkedIn. I started with LinkedIn because my community was bigger compared to other platforms.
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After 1 month, I knew where the pain was: copy-paste my work daily from Notion to Buffer. Here is how Scheduled was born. It was like an obvious idea for me. Suppose I can schedule and publish my content from Notion to LinkedIn. In that case, I'll never use a social media scheduling tool like Buffer anymore.
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I took another month to build a product. Another one to beta-test with 50 people. And another one to launch my SaaS company as a solopreneur. Now I work full-time to give content creators the perfect Notion integration to schedule their LinkedIn posts from Notion ✌️
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Feel free to give it a try. It's free for 14 days. And if you have any questions or wanna shoot me some nice words, just hit me up at: team@scheduled.so