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We finally got our first real Revluma user
And Shopify immediately humbled us😭
We’ve been building Revluma while bootstrapping from basically nothing.
No massive budget.
No 10,000 merchants waiting in line.
Just us building, talking to store owners, fixing things, and trying to get the first few businesses to actually use what we built.
Then it happened
A Shopify store owner tried to connect Revluma to his store.
He went through the installation flow.
And then...
Shopify said: “Absolutely not.” 💀
The store owner got hit with:
“This app can't be installed yet. The app developer needs to select a distribution method first.”
And I'm not even mad at Shopify.
Because this is exactly what building a real product looks like.
You can spend weeks building the intelligence layer, the analytics, the recovery systems, the customer insights...
Then your first actual user finds the one thing you somehow didn't discover until production.
😂
But here's the part I love.
He actually wanted to use Revluma.
He wasn't looking at a demo.
He wasn't reading a landing page.
He was actually trying to connect it to his store.
That's a completely different feeling.
So now we're fixing it.
We're working through Shopify's app distribution requirements, tightening the installation flow, testing the permissions, and making sure the next store owner doesn't hit the same wall.
And we're documenting the process.
Because Revluma isn't being built in a vacuum.
We're building it with real merchants.
The goal is simple:
Connect to the tools they already use.
Understand what's happening across their store.
Find where revenue is leaking.
Identify what is changing.
Detect customers at risk of leaving.
Surface what deserves attention first.
Then turn all that fragmented data into an actual decision.
Not another dashboard full of numbers.
“Here is what changed. Here is why it matters. Here is what you should do next.”
We're still early.
We're still bootstrapping.
We're still going to hit walls.
But now there's a real Shopify merchant on the other side of the product trying to use it.
And honestly?
That's one of the biggest milestones we've had so far.
If you're running a Shopify store and want to see what Revluma can find across your business, we're currently onboarding a small group of early merchants for free.
Comment REVLUMA or DM me REVLUMA.
If you want to follow the build from the messy side, follow along.
We're just getting started. 🚀
And shoutout to our first Revluma user, Walid, for actually trusting us enough to test this with his store 🙌
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@kushmergedeck I'm building Revluma, an AI revenue-recovery platform built for eCommerce store owners/operators who are tired of watching abandoned carts, idle browsers, and lapsed customers leak revenue.
@SplendorBen I love this initiative. The ecom space is flooded with fake gurus and '10k/month in 7 days' fluff, so seeing a real, transparent build from scratch is super refreshing.
A guy messaged me recently because his Shopify store was completely stuck.
No revenue.
Barely any traffic.
He had already spent money trying to figure it out.
So I asked him for access to the store, I ran a full diagnosis.
I found 7 problems almost immediately:
Bro had no real brand identity. There was no reason for the store to exist beyond selling products.
The products looked like generic dropshipping products with zero differentiation.
Almost no social proof. No real reason for a stranger to trust the store.
The navigation had three items and no real customer journey behind it.
His traffic strategy was basically nonexistent. I tried finding his social pages and some of the links weren't even working.
The store was in Spanish, but the product names were still in English.
There wasn't even a proper email capture mechanism.
Then I looked at the ads.
Bro...
It was an AI-generated video that looked like it was made to sell chatGPT, not a product. 😭
There was no coherent offer, no real creative strategy, and no reason I'd trust the brand enough to buy.
Then I learned something that completely changed how I looked at the situation.
He wasn't some lazy merchant who didn't care about his business.
He genuinely didn't know what he was doing.
He had gotten into ecommerce because of the flashy “build a store and make $10k/month” content everywhere online.
Then he paid for a mentorship that didn't give him the help he actually needed....but actually scammed him
So I'm doing something different.
I'm going to mentor him for FREE.
We're starting from ZERO.
First, we're gonna start with product research, we're going to find a product with actual demand and evergreen in Spain.
Then we're rebuilding the entire brand.
New positioning.
New store.
New product presentation.
New creatives.
New acquisition strategy.
And once the store is ready, we're connecting REVLUMA.
I want to see what happens when Revluma gets access to a real ecommerce business from day one.
It will monitor the signals across the store and help us identify where revenue is being lost, what's changing, which customers are at risk, where conversion is breaking down, what deserves attention first, and what actions we should test.
And I'm documenting the entire thing.
No fake screenshots.
No “I made $100k in 7 days bs"
No rented Lamborghini.
Just a real store, real money, real traffic, real problems and real results.
We're starting from zero.
If you've ever wanted to start ecom but have no idea where to begin, I'm opening a completely FREE mentorship group.
I'll teach you what we're actually doing and you'll be able to follow the entire experiment.
Comment BUILD or DM me BUILD.
And if you already run a store but something feels wrong, I'm also offering FREE store revenue diagnoses.
I'll go through your store, identify the biggest leaks I can find, and tell you what I'd fix first.
Comment AUDIT or DM me AUDIT.
I'll also give selected stores free access to Revluma so we can test it on real businesses.
Follow along.
We're about to find out if we can actually build a profitable ecom brand from zero.
Five tabs open.
Shopify. GA4. Ads. Klaviyo. Sheets.
Still asking: "Why is revenue down today?"
It’s not a data problem.
You’re drowning in data and starving for decisions.
Another dashboard won’t tell you what to do next.
"LTV is not a number.
It’s a system.
Post-purchase
Email timing
Offer fit
Product quality
Support speed
Each one either compounds LTV or kills it.
Most stores measure the output.
Few manage the inputs."
"Stop asking for more traffic.
Your traffic is fine.
Your add to cart is fine.
Your checkout is killing you.
You don’t need more people in the store.
You need to stop them from walking out at the till.
Right now, more traffic = more failed checkouts."
Hi guys, had a huge team sync for Revluma yesterday and the reality check hit hard. The app is built and working perfectly, but we have exactly zero users. Building the code was the easy part. Starting today, we are pivoting 100% to distribution. Time to find Shopify store owners
@RevlumaAI This is gonna be huge. Sometimes we kept wondering why our customers never stayed. Thoughts like "what are we doing so wrong, are our services not good enough" often hunts us. Now we know what the problems are.
Thanks a lot @RevlumaAI for solving this problem.