Bootstrapped founder with 22k users and $1M+ revenue shares free 5-day growth playbook
kylegawley · x · 2026-09-07
SaaS founder Kyle Gawley (15 years building VC-funded and bootstrapped products, $1M+ revenue, 22,000 users) is giving away a free 5-day email playbook on landing your first 100 paid users.
Highlights he teases: pre-selling to 7 users before writing code, a DM opener with 90% response rate, closing Jason Calacanis as a customer, a magazine feature that brought 100 users overnight, and the channels that scaled his products to 22k users.
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