Shotgun finds micro-creators worth messaging, reaches them at a human pace from your own machine, and keeps every reply in one inbox. A real desktop app for Mac and Windows — not another browser tab.
This is a screenshot, not a rendering — the unified inbox, with replies from every connected account, a drafted response, and the deal state for the thread you’re reading.
You message 100 creators. Twenty reply, twelve deliver, six are worth running. Every failure is priced into the six that worked — which is why your real number is nowhere near the rate card. Sending more messages doesn’t fix that. Picking better creators does.
Search by niche, sound, hashtag or a competitor’s handle. Every creator gets a fit score built from engagement, cadence, whether they’ve done brand work, and whether you can actually reach them — not follower count.
Sequences that open by naming the video you actually watched. New accounts start at 5 messages a day and ramp over two weeks. Sends cluster like a person’s day, and stop the instant something looks wrong.
Every reply across every account in one inbox, sorted into interested, rate question, not now. Each thread carries a drafted response and the deal state, from first contact to an asset you’d actually run.
Cloud outreach tools log into your accounts from a datacenter, on an IP you’ve never used, in a browser that isn’t yours. That mismatch is what gets accounts restricted. Shotgun works from your computer, your network, your browser profile — so there’s no fingerprint to fake.
You sign in on the platform’s own page, inside the app. The session goes straight into Keychain or Credential Manager. Our servers never receive it — a breach of us is not a breach of you.
No residential IP bill, no per-account infrastructure creeping onto your invoice. Your own connection is the most legitimate one available.
A live view shows the automation running in real time, at human pace, with the daily cap on screen. You never have to take our word for what it’s doing to your account.
One account is one price. Agencies running ten pay for ten. No seats, no tiers, no feature gates — everything is included at every level.
One creator who actually converts pays for a year of this. That’s the entire pitch.
Shotgun started as the scripts I used to promote Kakitori, a Japanese writing app. Over three weeks in August I contacted 699 creators, signed 26 to affiliate links, and those links brought in 470 signups. Four of the 26 produced every single dollar — which is exactly why the product scores creators before it messages them.
$30 per connected account, charged now — half the standard $59. That buys your first month, and that month runs from September 22 rather than from today, so buying early costs you nothing. From October 22 it bills at $59 per account per month, and you can cancel before then or at any point after.
TikTok and Instagram don’t offer an outreach API, so yes — automated messaging sits outside their terms, the same as every tool in this category. That’s why the caps exist, why new accounts ramp over two weeks, and why the app halts an account the moment it sees a block signal rather than retrying into it. The email lane is fully compliant if you’d rather not touch DMs at all.
Running from your own machine and network removes the biggest single risk, and the pacing is deliberately conservative — 5 a day to start, 30–40 at the ceiling. Nobody can promise you zero risk, and anyone who does is selling you something. Use a secondary account if you’re nervous; plenty of people do.
No. You sign in on the platform’s real login page inside the app, two-factor and all. The session is written to your Mac’s Keychain or Windows Credential Manager and is never transmitted to us.
You’ll get an email saying so with a new date, and your paid month still doesn’t start until the app is in your hands. If you’d rather not wait, reply to that email and we refund the pre-order in full. The macOS build already runs — the screenshot above is the real app.
One is enough to start. Each connected account has its own daily ceiling, so agencies running several brands add accounts to add throughput. Set the number at checkout; during your discounted first month each extra account is $30, and $59 after that.
One field, then Stripe. Takes under a minute.