🇨🇦 Shopify app dev building https://nitter.cf/t.co/shsD598bO3 https://nitter.cf/t.co/ZoNp5kEtt5 and too many other bootstrapped software businesses
Vancouver
Joined April 2017
- Tweets944
- Following352
- Followers524
- Likes3K
Have been working on an automated pipeline of analytics data + customer interviews turned into case studies posted across all social platforms. Working really well so far.
Full Moon Tea turned years of social posts, farmers market recipes and newsletters into 183 tea mocktail recipes in about 8 weeks.
Your recipe library probably already exists. See how they pulled it together:
recipekit.com/blogs/case-stu…
ALT Recipe Kit customer story graphic. Headline: "183 recipes in about 8 weeks." Full Moon Tea's recipe library page in a browser window with two of their recipe cards, and a quote from founder Katie McDonald: "Someone may arrive searching for a peach mocktail recipe and leave realizing they've discovered a tea company."
I've been working with customers on some incredible case studies for Recipe Kit. Here's a new one showing how powerful recipe content can be to drive traffic for Shopify stores, it's really amazing stuff.
185,000+ page views a year from old recipe content is a remarkable stat. Premier Catch gets more effortless traffic than most Shopify CPG/food brands by simply posting good recipes using their products.
recipekit.com/blogs/case-stu…
Shopify Sidekick now annoyingly displays front and centre for every single app, implying to merchants that it works with the app (despite it not doing that). So let's test it out on Shopify's own apps:
Shopify Bundles App: "can you create a bundle for me"
More praise for @jessethanley 's new Postshiba product. AI setup is incredibly easy, I've just ported 3 apps over to it this morning.
Cheaper than Postmark (used for the past 5 years) better interface, and reliability from my experience with Bento will likely be much better too
this is so so bad from a ux perspective. it makes no sense. I've had so many confused merchants emailing me about this.
i know this is the first step in a direction that Shopify is taking, and it will eventually iron out, but this transition period is awful for users + app devs
I am tired
community.shopify.dev/t/upda…
I found 153,502 live clones of Shopify stores.
This is a major issue that will continue getting worse and worse - and most Shopify stores have no idea what to do about it.
bollenbach.ca/blog/cloned-sh…
Some examples: Stanley, the drinkware brand, has at least 16 live clones of their Shopify store online today, and 78 lookalike domains:
recon.bot/report/fa3c021f6dd…
My solution is Recon apps.shopify.com/recon-bot. It watches for clones of your Shopify store + brand domains, alerts you with screenshots/details, and then tells you exactly who to report them to - Google, Microsoft, the registrar, the host - with the emails already written.
Do a free clone check for your store, no account needed:
recon.bot/audit
This week I tackled a problem I've had for a while: I've never had a good grasp of what exactly is going on across all my businesses.
So I built a mindmap in my internal tool with ALL ongoing tasks/projects, all team members (and AI agents) with their responsible tasks, etc.
These are all updated hourly through various connectors:
- Github activity
- Slack conversations
- Claude Code sessions
- Google Meet transcriptions
Meaning all the stuff I do across any computer/app ends up in this company brain and mapped out visually so I can see it.
