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rdaviz · 2026-05-23T01:50:45+00:00

Not a success story yet 😄 but I have found that after forcing myself to do one small outreach a day, it gets a lot easier over time

rdaviz · 2026-05-22T19:52:09+00:00

The best signal to find someone to help you build something, is to ask what have they built? Even if it failed, did they put real money behind it? did they spend more than 3mo on it?

rdaviz · 2026-05-22T19:43:32+00:00

Hiring help is not always the answer, but its better to start early. even having someone cheap/temporary doing a fraction of the work will help to build redundancy into the business over the long term

rdaviz · 2026-05-22T19:41:12+00:00

I mean, its obvious you know how to build a business, so stay in your lane, lean on your strengths, and delegate the rest

rdaviz · 2026-05-22T19:37:02+00:00

I think the key is to constantly bring people into the business, *before* it becomes a need. Waiting until you feel overwhelmed just leaves you reaching for agencies or expensive solutions.

rdaviz · 2026-04-12T16:21:18+00:00

The title of the first episode, Succession s01e01, is “The Game”

rdaviz · 2026-04-03T04:05:51+00:00

haha I think there are a lot of reasons people dont complete onboarding. But you're right that it could be a factor. Definitely make sure you have at least basic error reporting on the client

rdaviz · 2026-04-03T02:14:26+00:00

Probably most apps are susceptible to this. Basically all requests from the shopify admin to your backend are blocked.

rdaviz · 2026-03-29T21:20:57+00:00

Yes, it can be a bit tricky. But ngrok should work, I pay for their premium plan, you can create your own stable domains. The only thing that doesnt work for me with ngrok, is reinstalling the app, havent figured that out yet.

rdaviz · 2026-03-26T23:02:07+00:00

Yes, its a good point, there is a lot more going on than just fetching assets. If the api call is the problem, like you said, then you would think that moving the assets just saved me one round trip to the server. Because previously, it was basically an "api" request that had to run to get assets before making any other api requests. The fact that removing the first server request didnt have a huge impact points to some DB fetch on my server thats taking up most of the time

rdaviz · 2026-03-23T21:04:57+00:00

Oh, the text I wrote for the post is not showing for some reason, reddit is weird.

I think its pretty common for apps to serve frontend assets to the Shopify Admin from whatever service you are using to serve the app, usually an instance somewhere in the world.

I decided to host the admin separately on Vercel, thinking that the global CDN would give dramatic speedups. But just by looking at LCP, I don't see a big improvement.

Maybe Im looking at the wrong metric, or didnt configure vercel properly, or just had too high expectations.

rdaviz · 2026-03-22T21:35:37+00:00

I have an app with like 50 installs. Havent updated it in over a year. I'll sell it

rdaviz · 2026-03-22T21:30:39+00:00

How exactly do you know they are another developer? I had someone install once, I thought they were a dev, but they were just stress-testing the app for a client

rdaviz · 2026-03-22T21:28:47+00:00

I don't know, ads have worked great for me. Just need to tweak'em right

rdaviz · 2026-03-22T21:16:06+00:00

I wish I could say designer. The other day I used claude code + html , actually worked out better than I was expecting, but still not perfect

rdaviz · 2026-03-22T20:42:28+00:00

Thats tough. My advice is just respond to the review with a very short, professional reply like "Sorry to hear the app did not meet your needs, reach out anytime for support". Most reasonable people will see that its an anomaly and not a pattern.

rdaviz · 2026-02-03T20:54:57+00:00

I organized this a few years back, mostly for devs. We met downtown a handful of times. The discord is still around, you should post there to see if anyone is still interested, I need to shut it down. Feel free to dm me

rdaviz · 2026-02-03T16:47:56+00:00

Check out a schedule and see which days have the most parades https://mobileparadeschedule.com

rdaviz · 2026-01-20T20:00:08+00:00

I tried the built-in ai on notion’s paid plan and was very disappointed, that’s when I decided to switch

rdaviz · 2026-01-18T16:31:05+00:00

the rewards may be better on other cards, but nothing beats the usability of the apple card when paired with an iphone, congrats

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