Stuart Chaney

I've been in the Shopify ecosystem over 10 years. We helped launched Comfrt's VIP membership program last week. By far the most insane thing I've seen for a first day launch. Have never seen this much brand affinity before..

@dtcwithzach @1800DTC LFG

march 9th i joined @1800DTC to fix a problem i've seen since day one in this industry: brands can't tell who to trust, and everyone claims to be the best. today we're relaunching the platform. brands and vendors can now create and manage their own profiles. more transparency, better connections, faster growth. great brands aren't built alone. they need the right people around the table.

@sagupta_nyc @DevinAI Complete automation of linear to GitHub for all product

@stuartchaney @DevinAI what are you using Devin for? What does it do really well?

all roads lead back to @DevinAI companies like Devin, Cursor, Factory who handle the software factory end to end (and are building their own cost effective models) will win the engineering market at scale.

@kylebigley @jacob_posel @DevinAI 🎯

@stuartchaney @jacob_posel @DevinAI Specialization will always beat generalization Yet we see so many companies trying to do everything especially now with ai

about $3K p/mo right now. My mental model is that I will very happily pay $10K p/m to the company who can handle my software factory end to end at a high quality threshold. i think companies like Devin who are 100% focused on that solution will win (vs the model companies with many different paths)

@stuartchaney @DevinAI How much are you spending on Devin?

we've added over $6M ARR since we stopped focusing on the Shopify app store and reviews. less than 5% of revenue comes through this channel now. I feel for Shopify here, whatever app store loopholes there are to be exploited, they now have 10x the supply of clones pummeling these tactics. knowing how hard it is to earn reviews - waking up to hundreds or thousands of legitimate reviews wiped away overnight seriously erodes trust in building for this ecosystem.

POV: Running a Startup

seeing multiple AI agents discuss code changes between themselves never gets old..

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"Step 8: Create a claude artifact so a human can verify the visual changes you made in this PR" beautiful

@0x15f yep agreed - hoping to set SWE for bugfixes going forward depending on pricing.

@stuartchaney I am hoping to use it long-term depending on pricing. For the tasks I've given it SWE has performed far better than Opus, very good at finding bugs

I'd say it's been a pretty productive week with swe-1.7

@mirvise @RivoCommerce cmux - highly recommend

@stuartchaney @RivoCommerce I meant what was the app you had screenshotted that orchestrates to other agents. Or something built in house ? I know you have used Conductor in the past

biggest level up in agentic engineering in the last 12 months IMO a single Fable orchestrator managing a fleet of agents this wasn't possible on Opus or GPT-5.5 - models weren't smart enough. A dedicated Fable instance now babysits our linear to Github funnel and just tags me into anything that looks like a critical decision. This takes away basically 50% of what I was doing and 90% of my frustration with the system. All PRs are still human reviewed before production. I don't see that step being removed any time soon. Time to let it rip.

@mirvise @RivoCommerce - straight to other fable agents. Happy to pay

@stuartchaney Ooh, interesting, What app is this ? Is this also a more cost efficient way of using fable

@acwints 🙏

@stuartchaney so awesome

@JasonHassold @BallinFil 🎯

@BallinFil Yeah but an app like Rivo should not be an embedded app They should have their own dashboard outside of the Shopify admin, would be way cleaner Guarantee the only reason they did this is to get the Built for Shopify badge

This is a design crime 3x stacked headers 🤮 2x search bars 2x account selectors One of the many reasons I dislike the BFS push for embedded apps. External app dashboards are way better for a lot of apps.

@JasonHassold fml

@JeremiahPrummer @KnoCommerce @StampedHQ @piersonkrass Major respect man, you are a legend

After six years of running @KnoCommerce and a year and a half as CEO of @StampedHQ, my time at both businesses has come to an end. When @piersonkrass brought me in to build KNO in 2020, I couldn't have imagined where the journey would lead. We took a prototype to product-market fit in just 18 months before joining the Tiny ecosystem. Today, KNO has grown into one of the leaders in our space, powering hundreds of millions of question responses each year for brands representing nearly $30B in GMV. Last year, Tiny asked me to take over Stamped alongside KNO. I wanted to answer the question, "Can I be a professional CEO, not just an entrepreneur?" So I said yes. It ended up being the most challenging chapter of my career, and one I'm incredibly proud of. I'm especially thankful for the partnership of @sarah_wissel and @kelsey_burdett, and for the resilience of the entire Stamped team. The work you've done speaks for itself, and I can't wait to see what you’ll accomplish next. I could go on forever (and in some ways I probably will on my podcast 😂), but for now I just want to say thank you. Pierson, thank you for your friendship over the last 12+ years, and for constantly taking chances on me and giving me opportunities. Jordan, @PerssonAC, and @ecomelise, thank you for bringing me into the WeCommerce + Tiny ecosystem and giving me the opportunity to turn a dream into reality. To the KNO OGs: Kevin, Landon, @jaimeviera05, @Bbruhis, @steeze_0, Oswaldo, Louise, @Tina_Donati, @EmmettNaughton, Zach, Vladimir and Seán, thank you for helping build KNO into what it is today. (And Bar & Steven, thanks for covering my lack of salesmanship. 😂) Kelsey, Sarah, Emelie, Marcel, and the entire Stamped team, thank you for making the last year unforgettable. @awilkinson and @_Sparling_, thank you for creating the ecosystem that made these last four years possible. As for me, I don't have any plans just yet. I'm taking the next 5-6 weeks to recharge with my family before figuring out what comes next. To all the other partners, employees, and customers who were part of this journey: thank you. I wouldn't trade it for anything and if I can do anything for you I am here. 🙏

@codyplof usually drops between 10am-12pm PST

Does anyone have access to 5.6 yet? I do not. Thought it was dropping today