ambadoo is alive.
Today is special.
It’s special for me, and I hope it will be for you too. It’s almost three years since the idea struck me, of a system that’d help me and everyone else to once and for all fix the never ending problem of lost and old contact info.
I was trying to sort out, update, correct and search for the right phone numbers, emails & birthdays of my friends around the world. It didn’t take long until I got annoyed that I had to do the work myself, one by one. All manually. I could see hours passing by.
Until I scrolled down to my own ‘card’ in the address book which was all up-to-date. It had all contact info anyone would ever need to reach me, my birthday & photo. It was perfectly curated.
So I though, what if we turn it all upside-down? Instead of us, updating everyone else’s stuff we just update our own. And if everyone is doing that too, we all just have one profile – our own, to take care of. A no-brainer.
It sounded easy to me and I couldn’t sleep for days. All I could think about “what if”… What if everyone in the world have all the right contact info to all the people, all the time, without doing anything at all. Now wouldn’t that be nice?
I quit my day job as an architect and decided to go all-in on creating this thing that’d help the world. A big dream, that was very simple in my head but not as simple to conceive.
I’ve been scared many times down the road, that someone would do it faster & better. And in a way that’d be cool, ‘casuse all I really wanted was my address book to be all up-to-date, yet it still isn’t.
With me on the fantastic but rough journey to date I’ve had many by my side, and to those I’m deeply grateful. Mostly I want to thank Rafa and Daniel who’s been there as corner stones and the reasons we’re here today, and Sofia for the endless support.
So, here we are a few trials and errors later and I hope that what we’ve created will bring an end to the contact-info mess of our lives and bring us closer to each other by removing all obstacles. If I can wish for one thing, it’d be that.