Looking for a co-founder to help me grow Clippe, the infraestructure for service businesses
Hey everyone,
I’m a software engineer from Tijuana, Mexico, and for some time I’ve been working on a product called Clippe.
Clippe started around a simple problem: service businesses have their operation scattered everywhere. They use one thing for appointments, WhatsApp to talk to customers, spreadsheets for commissions, another service to accept payments, something else for their website, and a lot of things are still done manually.
I want Clippe to become the infrastructure behind those businesses.
It’s mainly built for businesses like barbershops, salons, spas, beauty and wellness professionals, and other businesses that work around appointments and services.
The platform is already working. Businesses can manage appointments, customers, employees, schedules, services, specialties, commissions, tips, cash flow, multiple locations, roles and permissions, and more. They also get their own booking website where customers can schedule directly.
We’ve also integrated payments. Businesses can accept card payments, charge customers without needing a physical terminal, or generate a payment URL and send it directly to the customer.
There are obviously established companies in this space like Booksy, Fresha and others. I’m not pretending we invented online booking.
What I’m interested in building is something broader than that.
I see scheduling as the starting point, not the whole product. My goal is for a business to eventually run most of its day-to-day operation through Clippe, from the moment someone books an appointment to getting paid, managing employees and commissions, keeping track of customers and eventually managing multiple locations.
I also care a lot about keeping the business itself at the center. I don’t want someone using Clippe to feel like they’re just another profile inside our marketplace. Their customers should remember their brand, not ours. Clippe should be the technology running underneath it.
And just to give some context about me and the product: I’m not a non-technical founder looking for someone to build an AI-generated idea for me. I’m a software engineer and I’ve built Clippe myself. The application, backend, business logic, payments, permissions, booking system and infrastructure are real and working. I use AI as another development tool like pretty much every modern developer does, but Clippe isn’t an AI wrapper or a weekend-generated SaaS.
The part where I know I need the right person is growth.
I’m looking for a co-founder who is much stronger than me on the business side, particularly sales, distribution, marketing, partnerships and customer acquisition. Someone who enjoys getting a product into people’s hands as much as I enjoy building it.
I’m also looking for someone who can invest capital into the company. Not someone who just writes a check and disappears, though. Ideally, I want someone who puts both time and money into Clippe and genuinely wants to build the company together.
We’re starting in Mexico, and being in Tijuana puts me right next to the US as well. I don’t see Clippe as something that has to stay limited to Mexico if we get the model right.
You can check out what I’ve built at clippe.app.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, send me a DM. I’m happy to show you the actual product, talk numbers, explain where things currently stand and share where I want to take it.
