UnRemot - Building the future of work: Virtual & Remote I, Shiju Radhakrishnan, along with my six-member team have been building UnRemot since early 2020. I am an expert in product and organic growth (SEO), with an MBA from SP Jain and Masters from Virginia Tech, US. I have worked with WIPRO Consulting, Ashok Leyland, and Cognizant Consulting in the past.
Please provide a brief overview of your product/service.?
UnRemot is a personnel office for independent professionals. It bundles Calendly + Zoom on a community-based interface, allowing anyone to request, schedule and conduct meetings in a jiffy. UnRemot has about 40,000+ professionals from across the world, who are independent accountants, lawyers, tutors, and freelancers. The largest user base is from the USA, followed by the UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany. UnRemot is based in Toronto and Bangalore.
What inspired you to build the above product/service?
UnRemot is built to address two significant problems faced by independent professionals currently: Firstly, the friction they go through every time they schedule a meeting – navigating through emails to using the calendar to working with Zoom. And, this is on an average 5 times a day for active professionals who spend most of their time in meetings.
UnRemot enables seamless meetings by combining calendar and video conferencing. When a prospect wants to meet them, they struggle to find ways to request, schedule and conduct a meeting with them. Often, this is done through recommendations and connections in emails and messages. UnRemot facilitates their discovery through a community-based interface.
What was the most challenging part of your journey till now?
The most challenging but enjoyable part was the first 9 months of building UnRemot – wherein we had the sequence of building, breaking, and tinkering based on the interactions and learnings we had from our users. We were trying to discover a path to product-market fit and it was grueling and uncertain, at the same time it was exciting like a rollercoaster ride.
How did you overcome initial mindset challenges?
We kept our heads down, insulated ourselves from the noises around us, and continued to focus on just one thing – the problem-solution bundle that we were building for the users. During the early days of building a product, it’s best to avoid social media noises on how everyone expects us to align with the regular market norms.
According to you, what are the three qualities an individual must have to achieve success?
The key quality that could lead one to success in building a product startup could be: Ability to identify a large problem, affecting millions, if not billions. Ability to build a team that can engineer and sell a product. Ability to stay put long enough – the perseverance to navigate through odds. Noises come and go.
Which online tools/ services/ apps do you use the most and would like to recommend as well?
We use the below tools at UnRemot: AHREFS for SEO Google for email WhatsApp & Slack for messaging UnRemot for meeting Fullstory, MixPanel, and Google for analytics Sendinblue for email campaigns.
Share any one habit which you think makes you more productive.?
Create a task list for every week, every day, for every team member. Share any one habit which you wish to change in yourself. Being anxious when things don’t meet timeline expectations. Grow UnRemot to 10 million active users, without paid advertisements.
If you get a chance to start your career again what would you do differently this time?
Laptop, phone, unremot.com. Share a quote that inspires you the most. You make your luck if you stay at it long enough.
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