Zipchat
👤 Ruslan Leteyski (Bootstrapped Checkout X to $8M ARR (about $1B GMV/yr) on Shopify, then exited Vanga AI. Zipchat is his third act.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
His last $8M business died overnight when Shopify locked checkout. He built the next one on Shopify anyway.
Will it work? · our read
Renting Shopify. A proven operator selling AI support to Shopify merchants, growing about 10% a week. The catch: it lives on the same platform that killed his last $8M business.
01How the money moves
Merchant installs Zipchat from the Shopify App Store
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AI agent answers shoppers and recommends products 24/7
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Merchant pays $49-999/mo for seats and volume
02The numbers
About $2M ARRStatedMRR $167K, stated Aug 2026
2026-08
ARR and volume are the founder's Aug 2026 words; weekly growth is his too. Prices are on the live plan page. pricing
About $167K/mo from roughly 700k AI conversations, up about 10% a week.
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Indie Hackers interview with Ruslan Leteyski (Aug 2026) — $167K/mo, about $2M ARRZipchat pricing — $49-999/mo plansZipchat About — Leteyski, Borreani, BellatiAcquire.com: Ruslan Leteyski on Checkout X and Vanga AIRuslan Leteyski on LinkedIn — Checkout X, about $1B GMV/yr
Revenue is STATED, first-party: in his Aug 13 2026 Indie Hackers interview (the source URL) Leteyski says 'Revenue: $167K a month' and 'we are about to cross $2M ARR', with '700k conversations a month, growing about 10% week over week'. Not audited. Prices are from the live plan page. Checkout X's $8M ARR is his own stated figure; his LinkedIn and About page cite about $1B GMV/yr for Checkout X — that is gross merchandise value, not revenue, and is kept separate. Public launch is about 2023 (a cofounder announced zipchat.ai 'open to the public' on LinkedIn); the founder describes Zipchat as cofounded in 2024, so year reflects the public launch. Latka lists no revenue figure. verified: first-party stated, not filed. We never score you.