For Bootstrapped Solo Founders

🧭 Overview

Your mission: grow a SaaS from zero → $1M ARR, fast and profit-first.

This playbook distills the exact systems used by hundreds of successful solo SaaS operators.

Whether you’re still validating or already at $5K MRR — this gives you the shortest path to scale.

✅ Phase 1 — Idea Validation (< 7 Days)

Your Only Job:

Prove people will pay for the solution.

What to Do

• Pick a painful, frequent, expensive problem

• Build a simple landing page (Carrd / Tally / Notion)

• Push traffic (Reddit, LinkedIn, DMs)

• Get 10 strangers to commit

(pre-orders, signups, or paid waitlist)

Bonus: Concierge delivery → validate while earning

Mistakes to Avoid

❌ Building for months without talking to users

❌ Solving “nice-to-have” problems