Interview with Dr. Kirsten Limmer

In today’s interview, Dr. Kirsten Limmer describes how she built an indispensable smartphone app.

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Kirsten addresses one of my favorite topics: building a business using an online platform. In this case, it’s a smartphone app that supports her real estate business and meets the needs of other real estate investors.

It used to be that one could develop a cool app and bring in decent income if it became popular. However, we don’t hear much about amateurs developing their own smartphone apps anymore. I’ve been looking for a physician with experience developing an app for a long time.

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Physician, Entrepreneur, and Real Estate Investor

Dr. Kirsten Limmer completed her medical degree and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at UCSD. Then she pursued her pediatric residency at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined a pediatric practice and worked full-time until the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020. During the pandemic, she reduced her work duties to manage and assist in schooling her children at home.

However, Kirsten is also a real estate investor and entrepreneur. She has been buying investment real estate in her spare time. And she plans to claim Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) for tax purposes this year (2021). Documentation of time logs is super-important for claiming tax deductions and preparing for an IRS audit. Kirsten looked but could not find any online tool to help keep track of the hours she devoted to her real estate investing and management. 

Solving Her Own Problem and Developing a Smartphone App

She was already aware of the costs of hiring a programmer to build an app because she had tried doing so once before. She spent a lot of money before realizing it was not worth the expense for what she was trying to develop at the time. So, she decided there must be a better way to develop an app that did not involve spending lots of money, or learning how to code.

She discovered that there are now companies that provide tools and coaching that enable clients to create an app without coding or paying high programming fees. So Kirsten enrolled in an intense software development coding course and built an app herself from the ground up. If you want to develop your own custom app without coding or outsourcing, you might use the service she used: Coaching No Code Apps.

Physicians do hard things… If you have an idea that you think is going to be successful, the worst thing you can do is just sit on it and let somebody else do it.

During our conversation, Kirsten gets very detailed about how she built her app. She describes each of the major steps and the time and expenses that might be involved. If you’ve been thinking about developing a similar tool, today’s interview may inspire you to make it happen.

Summary

Kirsten believes that any physician can learn to create an app like hers. With tools like the one she used, anyone can learn to put one together and get support and coaching, if needed.

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