Meet Luis Calvillo

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Luis Calvillo describes how he co-founded WhattaEat, a video-first food discovery app built with a very small budget and a two-person team. He explains how he rebuilt the product, simplified the feature set, and launched the app in the App Store after months of iteration. The piece also covers his earlier startup ShredSpots, which reached over 100,000 downloads and was acquired in 2021. Calvillo emphasizes lessons about retention, community building, rapid shipping, and persistence while also noting that WhattaEat is now actively raising its first round of funding.

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WhattaEat
up to $1M