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Founder/CEO @RivoCommerce. Powering retention programs for DTC brands like @HexClad, @kitsch, & @ridgewallet. Bootstrapping to $25M+ ARR in ecom SaaS

Rivo + HexClad case study šŸ‘‰
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Stuart Chaney
2 months
My 2025 goal at Rivo is to ship 10x more code than last year using the AI coding engine we have spent the past 3 months building. Pt 1 of the journey begins here:. Introducing Rivo Editions: Spring 25. - Stacked with 25+ features.- Built with over 50% AI engineering.- All from
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my current AI stack (at a $4M ARR bootstrapped SaaS). Support:.- @Fin_ai. Fin now handles support for our self-serve merchants - CX score is at 92%. People usually just want questions answered right away. Fin helps us do this. Engineering:.- Devin.- Linear.- Sentry.- Cursor.-.
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Stuart Chaney
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this is sick - and we're still very early here.
@ShopifyDevs
Shopify Developers
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Building your storefront AI agent just got easier. Connect the Storefront MCP server directly to the @OpenAI Responses API to search products, add items to cart, and create checkout links. No auth required.
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Stuart Chaney
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RT @M__Operators: Marketing Operators E066: DTC Marketers - Where Are You Wasting Your Time?. @couuor @codyplof @connorrolain.Watch the ful….
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Stuart Chaney
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Q2 results at Rivo:. - ARR: $4.18M.- Growth: +24.65%.- Active Subscriptions: 1,777. Good stuff:.- Record pipeline already in place for next Q.- We hired some of the best people in the industry.- AI has completely changed our engineering workflows. Not so good stuff:.Had our first
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Stuart Chaney
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Claude, build a visual data matrix tracking Shopify Store closures across the past 120 months, make it perfect.
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Stuart Chaney
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RT @AaronOrendorff: Tonight’s Operators Newsletter is the kind of exclusive content that makes me freaking love producing these! . Plus it’….
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Stuart Chaney
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I've had over 2,000,000 Shopify Stores install at least one of my apps since 2015. Here's some data showing the acceleration of closure rates in Shopify stores since 2021. Q2 2025 shows that for every 1 install, we are seeing 1.5 stores close (shut down). store closures /
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Stuart Chaney
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Claude Code is on an absolute rip rn. I've never seen a tool improve so much, over such a short period of time. The gap in productivity between companies adopting these new tools into their engineering workflows, and not - is going to be unrecognizable pretty soon.
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Stuart Chaney
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I know of multiple SaaS vendors that have unfortunately gone into maintenance mode in the past 3 months or so. - Cut 80% of spend.- No longer shipping features.- Running with a skeleton support team. Stuck between revenue being just enough to not shut down, and metrics looking.
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Stuart Chaney
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If you plot the number of new Shopify apps selling into this TAM over the last few years you can see the predicament ecom SaaS lies in today.
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Stuart Chaney
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If you plot the number of new Shopify apps selling into this TAM over the last few years you can see the predicament ecom SaaS lies in today.
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Rishabh Jain
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The dip in Shopify for the first time in a long time is painful
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Stuart Chaney
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RT @TurnerNovak: 56 year old publicly traded SaaS CEOs realizing they gotta start making brainrot TikTok’s to acquire customers https://t.c….
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Stuart Chaney
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Removing more bottlenecks in Slack w/Devin. Instead of waiting for someone with deep product knowledge to respond to complex feature questions. Anyone on the team can now get real time highly-detailed answers on any of the product, from the actual source of truth.
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Stuart Chaney
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real-time chat with your business using AI. once you see it work - it's hard to go back. at the moment you still have to duct tape a lot of this together depending on the tools you use - but this is moving VERY fast. this single prompt would have taken hours of work or pull in
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Stuart Chaney
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RT @SeanEcom: Didnt sell for 9 or 10 figures today?.feeling bad about it?. Read about the time I DIDNT sell for $300,000,000. And how Ridge….
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Stuart Chaney
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the other side of these graphs:. Almost 4 years in:.- Still yet to withdraw a dollar from the biz.- Still working 6 days a week around the clock. - Still taking L's and eating shit every day of the week. this stuff doesn't get any easier, but the ability to withstand pain for.
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Stuart Chaney
16 days
We just crossed $4,000,000 ARR at Rivo. Here are my takeaways from +140% YoY growth as a founder bootstrapping an ecom SaaS in 2025. CONTEXT:.We're a retention platform for Shopify Plus working with brands like HexClad, Ridge, Dr Squatch, True Classic, Thrive Causemetics,
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Stuart Chaney
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RT @couuor: One place at Ridge we’ve seen significant efficiency gains:. AI can now handle 80% of our go-to-market copy & channel briefing.….
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Stuart Chaney
14 days
this post perfectly sums up the current state of AI-assisted coding. the tools are ready - the quality of the output purely depends on how much time you spend building for this new system.
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Karpathy senpai called out this blog post in his YC AI startup school talk yesterday. If you write software, this is a must read.
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Stuart Chaney
15 days
gm. my todo list:. Q1: $3M ARR āœ….Q2: $4M ARR āœ….Q3: $5M ARR ā³.Q4: $6M ARR ā³
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Stuart Chaney
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RT @jacob_posel: Eng teams have already put together systems with Linear/Slack/ Devin/Claude Code etc that completely replace the need for….
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Stuart Chaney
15 days
can confirm that @eoghan is a man of his word šŸ˜‚. when the @tbpn shoutout drops.
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