Most people do not lose plans because they forget them. They lose plans because the plans are scattered across a group chat, an email thread, a calendar invite, and a text from one friend who never checks any of them. Last Minute was built to pull all of that back into one place.
Last Minute is a shared social calendar that turns plans into organized event threads. Instead of a plan living as a hundred unread messages, each plan becomes its own thread where the people involved can coordinate, confirm, and keep track of what is actually happening. It brings personal, professional, and community events together so nothing slips through the cracks.
The Doctor Who Could Not Find Time for Her Friends
Last Minute was founded by Dr. Rachel Semaan, a Lebanese-American anesthesiology resident from Detroit. She knows the problem she is solving from the inside. Residency is unpredictable and demanding, and she found that keeping up meaningful relationships around that schedule was harder than it should be.
She noticed something strange. The world is full of messaging apps, calendars, and social platforms, yet organizing a real-life plan was still fragmented and slow. The tools existed, but none of them did the one job she needed: get people in the same room.
A Lebanese Idea About Gathering
The push behind the app came from how she grew up. Semaan points to the sense of family, community, and hospitality in Lebanese culture as the reason she wanted a better way to bring people together.
"Growing up Lebanese taught me that our greatest joy isn't found in places or possessions, but in gathering together," she said. "No matter how far we travel or where life takes us, our hearts are happiest with family, friends, and community. I built Last Minute to make those moments easier to create."
That idea shaped the product. Last Minute is designed for friends, families, professionals, travelers, and communities, with privacy built in from the start. Every plan becomes an organized thread rather than another conversation to scroll through.
Live, Protected, and Growing on Word of Mouth
The app is live on both iOS and Android, with patent-protected intellectual property behind it. It has reached thousands of installs, driven mostly by organic growth and word of mouth rather than paid acquisition.
Semaan built and bootstrapped the company while finishing her medical residency. The platform is designed to scale across personal, professional, travel, and community events through a single shared calendar, and the company places its work inside a global market for social networking, messaging, and event coordination that it sizes at more than 200 billion dollars.
The work has drawn coverage from several national and international business publications, including MSN, LA Weekly, NY Weekly, SF Examiner, CityBiz, Under30CEO, and Florida Inno. For a founder running an app on the side of a hospital schedule, the throughline is consistent: fewer lost plans, more time with the people who matter.
Try the shared calendar at Last Minute.
