Stuart Chaney

Hiring our last ever engineer right now at Rivo. We are ALL-IN on scaling past $10M ARR via automated agentic coding. - Currently at $4.4M ARR (+143% YoY Growth) - Have got here with 3 engineers (including me) - Ruthlessly shipping product based on new workflows If you've been…

automating more human QA out of shipping code: Introduced a pre-review score that makes sure the AI stayed within our guardrails and docs. - Another model/tool does the check - Grades how well they stuck to our docs & guardrails Only job here is to catch any AI slop and reject…

anyone in DTC recommending a SaaS vendor they like after this week

This is a job posting for a brand new company and I’d really like your help getting it to the right people :) The history of technology is a short one, and it’s punctuated by a small number of trends. They might be: microprocessors, personal computers, the internet, mobile, and…

TFW I one-click add a Model Context Protocol Server in one of my everyday tools.

To 10x AI coding agents you need to *obsess* over context engineering above all else. Great Context = Great Plan = Great Result AI models are geniuses who start from scratch every time. So onboard them by going overboard on context. Use this prompt as a starting point.

I just crossed 10 years in the Shopify app ecosystem. In 2015, a couple years after an exit, I was looking to a buy another SaaS company and came across this graph in a prospectus. Took a bet on this, and chose building over buying. The older I get, the more I believe that a…

Every year we give away a car. This year, we are going to give away 2. Coming soon. 8.1.2025

Claude has been 5x better over the last couple of days for me with these connected. Incredible level up available to everyone now.

lemme get a Polymarket on Anthropic acquiring Cursor plz

10 years of building in public… And I still don't have as much aura as @SeanEcom Just kidding But in all seriousness - while this hasn't always been easy, I will ALWAYS preach about how much being truly open about (almost) everything I’m doing has helped my career And there are…

talking about a product update to a completed PR in under 10 mins using AI. 1. Add a title in Linear 2. Use AI voice app and ramble on task 3. n8n turns transcript into fully built out linear issue 4. Tag in Devin to scope out and do the work for you

added more ARR at Rivo in the last 24 hrs than the entire month of June 2024. scaling SaaS from zero is brutal - spent 3 years losing money and banging my head against the wall. keep going if you believe in what you're building

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 -…

this is sick - and we're still very early here

Marketing Operators E066: DTC Marketers - Where Are You Wasting Your Time? @couuor @codyplof @connorrolain Watch the full episode here 👇

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…

Claude, build a visual data matrix tracking Shopify Store closures across the past 120 months, make it perfect.

Tonight’s Operators Newsletter is the kind of exclusive content that makes me freaking love producing these! Plus it’s our one-year anniversary 🥳 and yes, I got you something special.

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 /…