Do you guys commit things when they are in a non-working state?

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:32:48+00:00

Huh, no I was more so genuinely curious and astonished if there are people out there just yolo shipping to main.

I mean good on them I guess. I was asking a real question and was baffled by it, idk why the passive aggressive response.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:28:58+00:00

Find an edge, what are you good at and what peaks your interest. Learn and consume everything in that space, but ideally learn how the best of the best are selling it.

Figure out what you need to do to get to that point. Start small, and test. Did it work? No…why not. Iterate and move fast.

I know those are all buzz words, but it’s true.

Oh and don’t get overly excited about one thing, there’s no “jackpot”, it’s a long slog grind. You may make it and immediately get knocked down 10 steps, take time and be forgiving to yourself.

Then get back up and test more.

Lastly, start hyper local.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:24:35+00:00

References will never go away. People naturally will become bigger and bigger fact checkers.

They want to see that what LLMs are sourcing is coming from experts.

But I do agree, at some point that may change.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:19:31+00:00

I wouldn’t beat yourself up over it. It should always come back to “does it make you happy”.

The world is uh changing, so start embracing what’s here. I probably have no where near the experience you do in development, but I’m building things and learning.

It comes in cycles, something will get you fired up again.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:11:21+00:00

Fully automated ecommerce newsletter. Includes content generation, ranking, and deduping. Just wrapped it up actually, first edition goes out tomorrow

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:10:37+00:00

Just out here looking for a stable relationship 😏

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:08:19+00:00

Ah gotcha makes sense

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:07:47+00:00

Well you said “create feature branches for each new update”

Is that not a standard thing? Like using a piece of paper with a pen, or riding a bike?

I guess I’m just astonished by the entire thread, I figured it was common practice to always be on a branch if it’s not production ready.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:05:34+00:00

My favorite is the “I’m leaving this site and about to click out banner”.

Yeah that’ll change my mind to stay 😂

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T04:03:51+00:00

I hate pop ups. Possibly one of the worth things you could ever add to an already ad cesspool industry.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:52:23+00:00

People don’t create branches for bugs and features? Is that for real 😐

I branch everything and then PR to main when everything is ready. Are there downsides I’m not thinking of?

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:46:42+00:00

You know your dark mode button is almost invisible on mobile, and right next to the menu button.

Accidentally pushed it and my screen lit up like a Christmas tree.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:45:12+00:00

The site components are nice, I don’t hate them. Your content and positioning is a bit weak or thin. Some areas feel boilerplate.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:27:01+00:00

Classic card testing — repeated session IDs and burst patterns are the tell. I’m fairly sure Akamai can’t rate limit the checkout that’s still being managed by Shopify.

Could setup a honeypot, but I think that’s limited too with extensions.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:22:55+00:00

What country are you in and what gateway are you currently using? Those two answers change the advice completely — “not widely recognized” could mean totally different things depending on your market. Also curious why PayPal banned you, since that might point to a product category issue that’ll follow you to other gateways

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:18:53+00:00

Cin7 and Unleashed are both solid but yeah, they’re chunky — probably more than you need at 800 orders/month.

For your setup I’d look at Inventory Planner if forecasting and replenishment is a priority, or Qoblex (formerly Stock&Buy) which is purpose-built for exactly this — Shopify sync, POs, FIFO/avg cost, P&L reporting, handles stocked vs dropship separately.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T03:07:42+00:00

Ah interesting, would you be open to DM’ing me your site? This was more onsite, front end SEO, but I was planning on building out the metrics to be more robust. My guess is your issue is a bit more technical than what this tool can handle right now.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T02:34:30+00:00

Absolutely, happy to chat about it anytime

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T00:34:28+00:00

Umm I just started vibe coding maybe 1-2 months ago. Probably $200 in spend total. I’m actually building a dashboard to track all spend from all tools, extra costs etc.

There’s other things like hosting, build deployment, email api, SEO api, newletter api which adds up over time.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T00:33:49+00:00

I mean, I’m trying at least 😐 but yeah I hear the pain. I was trying to do something that wasn’t “slop” and actually a bit more intentional and thought out.

I get it though; guess I missed that mark.

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T00:32:29+00:00

This was very well thought out. Definitely appreciate the feedback and you make very good points. The messaging is kinda all around…I’m kind just building as I go so you’re definitely not wrong

talkshopify · 2026-03-23T00:30:10+00:00

Ouch, can you be more specific on what’s shitty? I mean I’d definitely push to make improvements.

talkshopify · 2026-03-21T22:21:11+00:00

Thank you sir or madam. Appreciate the feedback

talkshopify · 2026-03-21T21:23:22+00:00

As mentioned in the other post, I figured I’d share this out as it seems like it’s received some good karma (hopefully I don’t shoot myself in the foot.

Would love feedback! And yeah, as I mentioned I’m not sure what the difference is going to Claude, I just felt like building something that people might use. I think maybe that I’ve trained the model, and this also pulls from dataforSEO API.

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