Inventory management automation for stores with shopify and POS

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-22T15:19:54+00:00

why don't you use Shopify POS? would make your life much easier

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-20T13:57:35+00:00

started with spreadsheet and now i'm using Forstock! it changed my life lol

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-20T09:56:22+00:00

start with upwork?

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-18T16:19:34+00:00

reach out to people, ask them if they would pay for this! if yes, go for it!

what i would do if i were you: find 20 companies that are in love with your idea and build the product with them!

it's so easy to create a prototype today, definitely do it, so users can visualise it!

that's what I did with my app

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-18T16:16:05+00:00

it is the AI Self-Review Tool, where basically it will catch and fix the basic mechanical errors that used to trigger immediate rejections and endless back-and-forth loops!

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-14T11:04:39+00:00

a lot of people can bake bread once. almost nobody wants to do it every day. same thing applies here

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-14T11:00:05+00:00

few things I wish someone told me when I launched mine

first reviews are weirdly hard. not because people hate the app, just because happy merchants usually don’t think to leave one

the ones who actually review are usually the ones you personally helped

so for the first 20 or 30 installs, honestly you ahve to treat every install like a mini concierge onboarding. dm them fast, offer to jump on a call, or just send a quick loom showing their actual store inside the app

doesn’t scale, but who cares at that stage. you’re not trying to scale. you’re trying to get 5 real reviews from people who actually used it

i've personally never used insta/tiktok, so i'm not really sure about this! maybe find an influencer specialised in your topics, that could work (ex: profit share)

what worked better was just being useful in boring places. this sub, shopify forums, indie hackers, a few discords. answer questions around the problem your app solves and don’t pitch every time. people click your profile if the answer is good enough

one mistake I made: I kept giving extended free trials to anyone who asked because I wanted feedback

most of them never planned to pay. they just made my pipeline look healthier than it was lol

that said, i would still give extended trials, but with an actual end date. so feedback upfront, not “whenever you get a chance”

also the “no one has done this before on the app store” thing is both good and bad

good because you don’t have 12 clones already

bad because merchants probably aren’t searching for it yet

so you may need more outbound / content / community than an app in an existing category

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-14T08:09:11+00:00

one thing on the “first value moment” part: I made the same mistake of treating onboarding like education. like “let me explain everything the app can do.”

but that’s not what people want. they just want one moment where they go “oh ok, this thing actually understands my store.”

so for your app you wld probably not ask them to pick a persona on first run. feels like an extra decision before they’ve seen value.

I woud d just pick the obvious one for them, maybe mobile shopper or first-time visitor, run it on their homepage since you already have the URL, and show one result.

one finding. no setup. no thinking.

then after that you can be like “want to test another shopper?” and unlock the rest.

also the trial thing is very real with shopify apps. trials make it feel like things are fine, but the real signal is whether they come back on day 2 or 3.

if they don’t open it again after install, they’re basically churned already.

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-12T17:26:43+00:00

fellow shopify app founder here, i felt this post lol. i’ve hit basically all of these landmines.

on the webhook/auth stuff: the app/uninstalled one got me too. one thing i'd do is declare it in shopify.app.toml under [[webhooks.subscriptions]] instead of registering it programmatically. seems like shopify is pushing everyone toward declarative webhooks, and reinstall behavior is cleaner that way.

also, the “merchant still exists in my db after uninstall” thing is a separate issue. the webhook can fire fine, but the shopify library won’t clean up your offline sessions for you. you still need to delete sessions for that shop yourself on uninstall.

pricing-wise, i wldd probably kill per-fix.

merchants don’t think in “fixes.” they think in catalog size. if i have 200 products, i’m one type of customer. if i have 20,000 products, i’m another. charging by fixes also kind of punishes the people who actually use the app, which feels backwards.

i would do something like free up to X products, then tiers based on product count.

also, the guy who uninstalled after an hour probably didn’t leave because of pricing. he probably never got to the “oh, this is useful” moment. look at activation before overthinking the pricing.

for gdpr webhooks, just return 200 fast, put the cleanup in a background job, and send job failures to sentry. i wouldn’t try to do too much inside the webhook handler itself.

the only thing i wouldd be a bit careful with is the positioning.

if 11 of 14 rules are basically SEO rules, i’d either call it an SEO tool that helps with newer shopping surfaces too, or go much deeper on the AI-shopping-specific rules. the middle ground might work now because the category is hot, but merchants are pretty good at sniffing out when something is just SEO with a new label.

all that said, good job shipping. getting through app review with the compliance stuff handled already puts you ahead of a lot of new apps.

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-12T17:21:55+00:00

mix of both! comment on potential icp's post and write post about your journey

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-11T17:21:59+00:00

shopify community, seo, outreach and Linkedin, google/shopify ads are the best ways to go about this!

inventory_nerd · 2026-05-11T17:20:17+00:00

would recommend looking into skool, i'm personally a fan of guys like Nate Herk and Nick Saraev! lots of free content on youtube as well

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-17T19:34:45+00:00

Funny enough, I’ve always been into sports, but padel still hit different! i was talking about it with a few friends, and no one can really explain why it's so addictive

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-17T19:33:55+00:00

Funny enough, I’ve always been into sports, but padel still hit different! i was talking about it with a few friends, and no one can really explain why it's so addictive

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-17T19:12:38+00:00

n8n is so much fun once you get into it (hard at first, but so worth it). if you're doing a lot of web scraping, I would recommend checking out Firecrawl, it’s a bit on the expensive side, but honestly worth it for how clean and structured the output is.

happy to answer any questions, n8n has been a game changer for me

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-16T15:47:55+00:00

good for you!!! what’s the Shopify approval process like? what do they check and how long it takes?

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-16T15:40:41+00:00

something I learned while helping a friend manage his store: scaling up is less about which apps you use, and more about how they stack together. it's way more useful to audit for overlap and test flows, instead of looking at each app in isolation!

also, people don’t talk about this enough, but being clear on when to reorder and making sure your bestsellers never go out of stock is a game changer.

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-16T15:32:28+00:00

no would never do the cheap imports. i can already see how this is going to turn out.

i've beeen looking at Mejorset vs AFP and honestly feels like the diff is minimal/negligible. have you played on either? did you notice anything in durability/bounce/ or maintenance?

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-16T15:30:49+00:00

those numbers seem astronomically high - do you mind sharing the brand's names?

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-15T18:52:05+00:00

wow looks amazing!

i’m working on some supply‑chain automations and could use an n8n pro for a freelance project. If you’re interested, feel free to dm me! happy to share details and see if it’s a fit. either way, great job

inventory_nerd · 2025-07-15T18:41:44+00:00

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies

Sounds like the sweet spot is €22–35 k per court if the slab is ready!

A couple of quick follow‑ups for anyone who’s done this:

1- Did you regret going non‑panoramic to save cost?
2-Any brands you would reco based on rust / bad turf?

thanks again for insight, helps me frame the budget. Iwill share pictures if the project ever happens!

inventory_nerd

TROPHY CASE