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#217 – How a Near-Death Experience Turned a VC-Backed Founder into a Bootstrapper with Kyle Gawley of Gravity

2021/7/14
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Courtland: 本期节目采访了 Kyle Gawley，他是 Gravity 公司的创始人，一家发展迅速的 SaaS 公司。他分享了自己从风投支持的创始人转型为自力更生的创业者的经历，以及他如何通过 Indie Hackers 社区和独特的营销策略来发展业务。他强调了专注于解决用户痛点，尽早获得用户付费的重要性，以及在创业过程中保持工作与生活平衡的重要性。 Kyle Gawley: 我之前的公司 Get Invited 发展迅速，但压力巨大，最终导致我生病住院。这次经历让我反思生活，并决定追求更好的工作与生活平衡。我开始在泰国等东南亚国家旅行，并创建了 Gravity，一个帮助软件公司节省开发时间的 SaaS 产品。我最初创建 Gravity 是为了提高自己的开发效率，并非出于商业目的。在 Indie Hackers 社区的帮助下，我找到了目标客户，并通过 SEO 和 Twitter 等渠道进行营销。我非常享受独立创业的自由，目前不打算融资或组建大型团队，而是计划开发更多卫星产品来扩展业务。 Kyle Gawley: 我喜欢独立创业的自由，目前不打算融资或组建大型团队，而是计划开发更多卫星产品来扩展业务。我之前的公司 Get Invited 发展迅速，但压力巨大，最终导致我生病住院。这次经历让我反思生活，并决定追求更好的工作与生活平衡。我开始在泰国等东南亚国家旅行，并创建了 Gravity，一个帮助软件公司节省开发时间的 SaaS 产品。我最初创建 Gravity 是为了提高自己的开发效率，并非出于商业目的。在 Indie Hackers 社区的帮助下，我找到了目标客户，并通过 SEO 和 Twitter 等渠道进行营销。我非常享受独立创业的自由，目前不打算融资或组建大型团队，而是计划开发更多卫星产品来扩展业务。

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Kyle Gawley's company, Gravity, provides SaaS boilerplates that help software companies save around three months of development time when building their web applications. This is explained in a way that's easy for non-software engineers to understand, focusing on the benefits rather than technical details.
  • Gravity saves software companies around three months of development time.
  • It focuses on building new JS and React SaaS web applications.
  • The product is specifically targeted toward software engineers and web developers.

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Kyle Gawley (@kylegawley) was running a high-growth, venture-backed company when he ended up in the hospital partially due to all the pressure he was under. That experience led to some introspection, which I'll ask him about in this episode. We'll also talk about his new company, which he decided to build with a completely different approach to growth.