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Founder · Designer · Operator

KhafidGunawan

Building WaitHub from zero — a platform managing queues and capturing customer voice across 1,000+ locations in Indonesia.

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The Journey

From sketch to scale.

Not linear, not tidy. An honest record of how an idea from a Bandung studio reached enterprise servers in Jakarta.

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Graduated FSRD ITB

Interior design background — not computer science. What I brought: design thinking. User empathy, fast prototypes, iteration without ego.

02
Studio era

Ran a design and branding studio. Learned business language from the client side — restaurants, clinics, retail. That's where I saw the same problem repeat: queues.

03
WaitHub was born

The pandemic forced physical queues to go digital. With my co-founder, I built WaitHub. Not from a pitch deck — from one cafe in Bandung that needed a solution by tomorrow morning.

04
Searching for product-market fit

Three long years. Pivoted several times. Misread the market more than once. What kept us going: customers calling to ask when feature X would ship.

05
Enterprise & Government

WaitHub started serving banks, telcos, and government institutions. From corner cafes to head office queues — same product, same problem.

06
CX Intelligence

Beyond queues. WaitHub now turns thousands of customer service conversations into marketing intelligence. Data once lost, now captured.

A Glimpse of WaitHub

What I'm building.

A service flow management platform for Indonesian businesses. From small cafes to national banks — the same problem: people waiting, and no one listening.

1,000+
Active locations
6yr
Since 2020
ID
Made in Indonesia
See more at waithub.id
Writing

Notes from the field.

What I learn while building. Written for my future self — to remember why I'm doing this.

— Series
#BangunDariNol

Why product-market fit isn't a moment, but a habit.

For three years I chased PMF as if it were a finish line. Turns out it's a treadmill — those who stop running fall off the map.

2026 · 04
CEO Notes

What design school doesn't teach about business.

My FSRD background taught me one thing that turned out to matter most in startups: how to listen to a problem before selling a solution.

2026 · 03
Field Notes

The day I closed our first bank deal.

Enterprise procurement is a patience sport. Nine months, 14 meetings, one signature — and lessons I won't forget.

2026 · 02
Behind the Product

Why we said no to our biggest client's feature request.

Customer is king — until they ask for something that would break the product. A story about saying no.

2026 · 02
Founder Reactions

When a VC said our idea wasn't interesting.

Rejection is data. Three pages of feedback from a major investor that changed how I see the market.

2026 · 01
Business Talks

Pricing is a policy, not a decision.

How much should I charge? This question haunted me for two years. What I learned: price is the story you tell about value.

2025 · 12
Get in Touch

I love meeting
new people.

khafid@waithub.id