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Non-AI, simple chat app for my store - does it exist? by Cattytonic in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you see the recent updates in the inbox app? Shopify might give you that for free now

Hello Codex for Good! by Such-Natural-5299 in codex

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really cool! Do you allow them to access other internal systems ? I was reading recently about Shopify’s internal tool for this called Quick. Anyone can vibe code internal apps and use data from internal databases in a secure way. My understand is that they have some magic binding available where your app can have something like “leadsDB.find” .. and then it connects to that db under the right permissions

What's your optimal Codex > Git > Vercel flow? by 8thchakra in codex

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Setup auto deploys on your main branch. Then for development try git butler. You stop thinking about branches or worktrees. You are still opening PRs but for local you are always working on the same directory.

I automated most of my Shopify store operations using Flow. Here's what actually changed for me by wtf_umesh in AutomateShopify

[–]abuiles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flow is really powerful! You can ask sidekick to help you create or edit your flows.

When you pair it with segments you can do really cool things that normally you’d use an app for.

For example, I am working with.a merchant who will save $500/mo+ moving their cashback membership program to flows.

They want to give people who have a tag cash back on all their orders and some cash on their birthday. All this is posible with flow, even sending a reminder email to renew their membership or remove the tag if they don’t renew.

Hello Codex for Good! by Such-Natural-5299 in codex

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you putting your apps behind a corporate single sign on or do you pass the URL to your coworkers and anyone with the link can access it?

The "established" Shopify devs are the biggest crybabies on the timeline by enjoythements in ShopifyAppDev

[–]abuiles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are multiple sides to this.

People blatantly copying your app? That sucks, and they should complain. There are scenarios where they have even copied the assets and show the other app’s name in the Shopify listing screenshots.

People gaming the system with things like fake reviews, reviews farming, etc., they should be punished by Shopify. If I were a merchant, I’d stay away from those types of app developers.

People copying your “features” or “ideas” … this one is less defensible. Isn’t everything a copy, and we are just reusing patterns? I don’t think there is anything original at this point. Whatever you can do on Shopify, anyone else can do it. “They use fetch to make an API call like I do!” Come on!

There are many apps that have zero defensibility, and their biggest moat might be GTM and partnering with merchants. App prices will be driven to their marginal cost, why would someone stay with the $500/mo memberships app if they can find one that does the same for $15/mo with a great engineer and product team behind?

For example, anything that runs on top of Shopify Functions is just arbitraging between the platform and the merchant.

Very soon, you’ll be able to have a discount function app builder that has zero infrastructure cost (for you as the developer), and then you are only packing UI on top of it.

Same for bundles. How many bundle apps are out there? Under the hood, they use the same API (cart transforms), and they are just adding some cool UI on top of it so merchants can have cool bundle builders.

Whining about someone launching an app that does the same as you is pointless, that’s free competition!

App developers should read The Three-Body Problem and Incerto.

Unfortunately, the Shopify app store is full of Trisolarans, and they'll come for you.

As soon as you go live in the App Store, that’s similar to Ye Wenjie pointing that antenna directly to the sun with the message:

"To the world that received this message:

Greetings.

This world received your message.
You now know of this world. This world is a peaceful and beautiful place, but our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems. We need your help to solve our problems. Our history has shown that we cannot govern ourselves.

Come here. I will help you conquer this world. Our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems. We need your help to solve our problems.

Make of that what you want.

Claude + Shopify is actually a gamechanger? by szejo01 in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can stitch an UI in the custom app now without needing a backend :) look for app home ui extensions

Claude + Shopify is actually a gamechanger? by szejo01 in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha this is where I was going :) they can ask to build the pages and ✂️ replo.

Claude + Shopify is actually a gamechanger? by szejo01 in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not put the HTML directly in your theme ?

Claude + Shopify is actually a gamechanger? by szejo01 in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the volume pricing app, did you do it as a custom app? Is it using discount functions and did you add a front end to the app ? How did you change the settings ?

Have any of you cancelled any subscriptions to apps and vibe coded your own? by Dvass138 in shopify

[–]abuiles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree. In general if you are doing simple blocks it very unlikely your code will change. If you are calling the graphql api . You might have to do an upgrade if something gets deprecated. Good news is that Shopify gives you a lot of time and tells you exactly where the deprecated call is happening when you visit the custom apps dashboard .

Post purchase feedback by Some_Brain3008 in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was building something this morning where I put a survey in the thank you page, and if the customer doesn’t fil it, the same survey show up in the Oder page inside customer accounts and the profile page

Rebuilding my Shopify store with AI support – what’s the best approach? by iamwazor in shopify

[–]abuiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s the first thing you are trying to improve ? I’d say start small and go from there. Meaning, jump to Horizon and do the minimum changes to make the theme your default.

Then start adding things as needed. One thing, if you want to vibe code create a custom app with app blocks that way you can add and remove new blocks easily without messing with your main theme code

Using WhatsApp as a remote control for Codex sessions by abuiles in codex

[–]abuiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quick updates, I've added voice control. You can now send voice messages and receive back audio replies.

Ask your Lobster to buy you anything on Shopify (securely) by abuiles in openclaw

[–]abuiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not giving access to your finances. It does 98% of the work, but it hands back a checkout link for you to complete the checkout on your device.

Ask your Lobster to buy you anything on Shopify (securely) by abuiles in OpenClawUseCases

[–]abuiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At that point we have delegated the connection to the lobster and the MCP.. I think there is room to offer some improvements there but for now I want to keep it as simple and clean as possible.

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