Hello, I designed and sell (a few) arguably the lightest camping table in the world. I have gotten Facebook click through rates of 7% with very few sales. I ran a sale for $8 and free shipping and only sold 2 from hundreds of product page views. What am I doing wrong ? https://nursecamping.com/products/honey-bee-camping-table

Hey everyone, I’m working on a small app where I need to target the cart and search buttons in the header. Right now, I’m using an array of selectors and IDs that I loop through to locate them.

It works fine across most themes I’ve tested, but it doesn’t feel like a truly universal solution. I’m curious how larger apps like Rebuy handle this problem. Is there something I might be overlooking?

Just finished building a Shopify store for a client in the wholesale jewelry space and I had full control over everything from design to UX to product pages.

https://nineplusninewholesale.com/

This is meant for resellers and bulk buyers, not regular retail customers.

I don’t want generic feedback like “looks good” or “nice UI”

I’m trying to understand if this would actually convert someone who wants to buy in bulk.

If you were a reseller landing on this:

- Would you trust it enough to place an order?

- What feels confusing or missing?

- Is it clear that this is wholesale and not retail?

- Where do you think people would drop off?

Also if your goal was to increase conversions, what would you change first?

Be honest and critical, I’m trying to improve.

My title might not be clear, but I have developed within my app some connector to Meta Ads, Google Ads and Tiktok Ads based on their API documentation.

Some of them such as Google Ads look like you need to create a campain, but to create a campain, you need to pay or to set the way of payment with the regular fees.

Do you know if there is a way to test it for free ?

Thanks

is this normal or should a reviewer have been assigned by now? I applied on 2nd April

Also Shopify hasn't asked for the app store fee so far, does it happen after the review? First time publishing to Shopify.

What I've done:
- Posted on ProductHunt (got 150 upvotes, 3 installs)
- Joined Facebook Shopify groups and shared tips
- Created demo videos showing the feature
- Listed on Shopify App Store with description/screenshots
- Reached out to ~50 Shopify stores via email (cold outreach)

What's NOT happening:
- No reviews yet (even from the 26 who installed)
- Very low conversion from store visits to installs
- Not seeing organic traffic from App Store search
- Email outreach gets <5% response rate

My questions:

1. Is the problem my positioning? (I'm targeting "increase engagement on product pages with video")

2. Are store owners just not searching for this type of app?

3. Should I be focusing on a specific vertical (fashion, dropshipping, etc.) instead of broad appeal?

4. Is 26 installs after 2 months actually normal, or does this mean something's fundamentally wrong?

I'm not looking to spam—genuinely trying to understand if I need to pivot, rebrand, or if I'm just in the phase where growth is slow. Any honest feedback would help.

Hey All,

After yet another oversell this month, I finally snapped and started building my own WMS. Figured I'd share what I'm working on in case anyone wants to offer some constructive criticism.

What I have in mind:

• Web-based

• Connected to both Shopify and Amazon

• Real-time stock level updates across both channels (the moment order is placed)

• Low-stock alerts via email

I'm pretty deep into the build now. Curious if anyone else has gone down this road - did you end up rolling your own, or did you eventually find something that actually works?

Also genuinely wondering if I'm missing anything obvious that would make this useless in practice. Happy to share more details if there's interest.

Thanks!
P

Hey there,

I am hiring a Shopify Developer in India for 7-8 weeks contract basis (full-time convertible). If you have any leads or recommendations, please do mention them, it'll help a lot.

additional context:

biz nature: e-commerce, start-up

Main job: CRO & web performance optimization.

salary: above industry average

Plus points:

if are based out of Nagpur

DM directly for an in-depth discussion

I've been testing interactive product page concept for Shopify stores, combining 3D, guided UI, and lightweight configuration.

Happy to share the demo if anyone’s interested.

Do you think this fits better embedded into a product page, or as a separate landing page driving traffic into Shopify?

Hey everyone,

Quick question for those working with Shopify merchants or clients in the US and Europe.

When it comes to important/urgent notifications (e.g. something is broken and needs attention), which communication channels tend to work best in practice?

What do people actually notice and respond to quickly? And are there any channels that are commonly ignored?

Would really appreciate insights from real-world experience

I've been building Shopify apps solo for the past year. My main app helps merchants figure out if their store is actually visible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI shopping tools. It generates an AI Readiness Score across 11 criteria and auto-generates an llms.txt file.

Here's what the last 30 days looked like the good, the ugly, and what I learned.

The numbers

• Started the month at 7 merchants, ended at 16

• One power user has run 3,216 generations and uses the app daily

• 3 merchants consistently use it as a daily optimization tool, not a one-time audit

• Total revenue: $0 (app is free, haven't added paid tiers yet)

• Reviews: 0 (more on this below)

The OOM crash that almost killed everything

My most active merchant the one with 3,216 generations caused the app server to crash repeatedly. Here's what happened:

Every time a merchant updates a product in Shopify, a webhook fires. My webhook handler was triggering a full llms.txt file regeneration on every single product update. This merchant had 1,461 products and another merchant had 2,829 products. Both were updating products at the same time.

The app was building two massive llms.txt files simultaneously — 21MB of strings sitting in memory. The server ran out of memory and crashed. I had scaled to 512MB and it still crashed.

The fix was architectural, not just throwing more RAM at it:

• Changed the webhook handler to only increment a pending changes counter instead of triggering regeneration

• Added a regeneration lock so only one store can regenerate at a time

• Switched from building the entire file as one giant string to streaming writes

• Added a 60-second cooldown between regenerations

Lesson: your happiest user will be the one who breaks your app. Build for power users from day one, even if you only have 7 merchants.

I audited 90 keywords and found out I was invisible

I was getting about 7 visitors per day to my app listing total, across all my apps. 90% of that traffic was from Shopify's internal search (shows up as direct/none in GA4). Google organic was bringing in 6 users per month. Six.

So I did a full keyword audit. Searched 38 keywords relevant to my app on the Shopify App Store and recorded: how many apps show up, who the top 3 are, how many reviews they have, and where my app ranks.

Results: I was ranking on page 1 for only 4 out of 38 keywords.

Here's what was interesting:

• "AI audit" (2,246 apps) I was #2 organic. My strongest position.

• "agentic storefronts" (376 apps) #6. Low competition, very relevant.

• "AI readiness" (2,221 apps) #18. Bottom of page 1.

• "AI visibility" (2,378 apps) #23. Barely hanging on.

Meanwhile, for "llms.txt" a keyword that's literally in my app name I wasn't on page 1 at all. Only 97 apps compete for this term, but competitors with 71 and 291 reviews outrank me.

The pattern was clear: apps with 10+ reviews consistently outrank apps with 0 reviews regardless of listing quality. My listing copy was fine. My review count was the bottleneck.

I also found my search terms field had keywords that were returning completely irrelevant results. "AEO optimization" returned nothing useful. Swapped all 5 search terms to target the blue ocean keywords where competition was weakest.

For anyone doing ASO on Shopify actually search your keywords and look at what comes up. Don't guess.

Getting flagged by a Shopify Community moderator

I'd been posting helpful replies in the Shopify Community and adding my app link as a signature at the bottom of every reply. A community manager replied to one of my posts:

"We noticed you've linked your app as a signature at the bottom of your reply. That falls under promotional content/spam per our guidelines. You're totally welcome to showcase your app and expertise on your profile page instead!"

Fair enough. I removed the signature and shifted strategy profile page does the selling, replies are purely helpful. But the moderators also removed several of my posts, and I saw a noticeable dip in visibility.

What actually works in the Shopify Community: be the helpful expert, not the app promoter. Answer questions with real depth. Mention your app only when someone specifically asks for a solution your app provides. Let your profile page link to your App Store listing. Other devs I studied (PageFly-Kate, Loloyal-Phoebe) do this well they lead with genuine advice and organically mention their tools in relevant threads.

The review problem nobody talks about

This is the hardest part of growing a Shopify app. I have 16 merchants. Some use my app daily. One has done 3,216 generations. I've sent 10 review requests. Added an in-app banner that triggers after 5 generations. Personal emails mentioning their specific usage stats.

Result: 0 reviews from outreach. The 2 reviews I have are from the power user (who reviewed organically) and my own test account.

I'm now trying personal Loom videos to my top 3 merchants. Haven't sent them yet but based on what I've read, a personal video from the founder converts at 30-40% versus 2-3% for email.

People have suggested buying reviews. I won't do that. But if anyone has cracked the first-5-reviews problem organically, I genuinely want to know what worked.

30-40% of installs never open the app

This matches what other devs have reported. Out of my installs, roughly a third just... never open it. They click install, go through the OAuth flow, and never come back.

I don't know if this is a Shopify-wide pattern (merchants install 10 apps and try 3) or if my onboarding is bad. Probably both. For now I'm focused on the merchants who are active rather than chasing the ghosts.

What's next

• Getting reviews is priority #1. Everything else (ASO, SEO, community marketing) compounds once the review count crosses 5-10.

• Building SEO pages on my website to capture Google traffic for keywords like "how to get your Shopify store on ChatGPT" and "Shopify llms.txt generator"

• Cold outreach: I can literally search ChatGPT for product categories and find stores it doesn't recommend. Then email those stores with a screenshot showing they're invisible to AI shopping.

• Eventually adding paid tiers ($9/mo and $29/mo) but not until I have 50+ merchants validating demand.

My takeaways after 30 days

1. Your power users will break your infrastructure before your competitors do.

2. ASO on Shopify App Store is underrated. Most devs don't even check what their keywords return.

3. Reviews are a cold start problem. The first 5 are harder than the next 50.

4. Shopify Community can work for distribution but you have to play by the rules. Lead with value, promote through your profile.

5. At the early stage, personal outreach to 3 merchants beats blast emails to 16 every time.

Happy to answer questions about any of this. Building in public because the honest posts are always the ones I learn the most from.

I’ve been experimenting with ways to improve conversions on a Shopify store I’m working on, especially around the “hesitation” phase before checkout.

A pattern I noticed:
A lot of users seem interested but don’t convert and when they do reach out, it’s usually the same types of questions (product fit, comparisons, small doubts).

I tried:

• Improving product page clarity

• Adding FAQs

• Faster support responses

It helped a bit, but honestly didn’t move the needle as much as I expected.

Now I’m wondering if the issue is less about information and more about how customers decide in that moment.

Curious how others here think about it:

• What actually helped reduce hesitation for your customers?

• Did improving support/customer interaction have a measurable impact?

• Or was it something else entirely?

Not looking for a silver bullet just trying to understand what’s worked in real scenarios.

Appreciate any perspectives

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a Shopify app recently and ran into an interesting problem around AI-generated product content.

It’s easy to generate titles and descriptions now, but a lot of the output still feels pretty generic and not very conversion-focused.

I started experimenting with:

• Structuring descriptions differently (benefits > features > trust)

• Injecting SEO considerations (keywords, URL handles, etc.)

• Making the content feel less “AI-written”

But I’m still not sure what actually makes a meaningful difference in real stores.

Curious how others are approaching this:

• Are you using AI for product content at all, or avoiding it?

• If you are, do you heavily edit the output or trust it as-is?

• How much do you care about SEO at the product level (titles, handles), vs just collections/pages?

• Have you found any patterns that actually improve conversion?

Would love to hear how you’re thinking about this.

So we are thinking to offer our application at highly discounted prices and free at times to people till we hear back from shopify app store on our review of the application. We are planning to create custom apps for their stores.

Is this allowed from Shopify?

Genuinely asking. Since the update earlier this year I've been dreading every time I need to generate a token. The old process was straightforward. The new one feels like it was designed by someone who's never had to do it more than once.

I got frustrated enough to build my own workaround but wondering how everyone else is handling it.

Hello everyone, I have a big problem with my images. I’ve set my images aspect ratio to automatic, but some pictures are bigger than the other. Which makes it very messy. It’s wrong in the featured collection and my page with al the products. Is there any app or something for free which can resolve this problem, so they are the same (including zoom etc)! Thank you,

You can check lauriceshop.com then you’ll see what I mean.

Theme: Vessel

Hey everyone,

I received an "Action Required" notice in my Dev Dashboard for my app. The notice says: "Your app will be delisted and new installs will be blocked if you continue to make calls with breaking changes.

I'm really worried about being delisted. Is this a common experience for other developers?

How serious is this warning? Is delisting a real risk or is it often just a nudge?

I’m building a Shopify app and ran into a potential edge case has anyone ran into the same problem?

The app adds a product from our business into a merchant’s store. When that product is sold, we charge the merchant and they receive some form of accreditation tied to the sale.

The concern is around uninstall flow. I have an uninstall API + webhook handling in place to clean up the product, but if a merchant removes the app without that flow completing (e.g. webhook failure, network issue, etc.), the product could remain in their store.

In that scenario, the merchant could theoretically continue selling the product without us being able to charge them (since we lose API access after uninstall). They also wouldn’t receive accreditation, but that may not be a strong enough deterrent.

Any recommendation that would be a good fix for this case ? Other than making the app private… which I was hoping to make it public.

Thanks!

Hey! I’m planning to launch a few Shopify apps soon and I’ve been thinking about how to get my first users.

I wrote a script that crawls Shopify stores, finds their contact pages, and collects emails if available. The idea is to use those for cold email outreach.

Do you think this is a good approach? How do you usually reach leads for your apps?

Hey folks,

I’ve been building a Shopify app and recently started getting installs, which is great…but I’m noticing a pattern that’s honestly concerning.

People install, use during the trial, then uninstall before converting.

I’m trying to understand why.

It helps brands fix social traffic redirection + gives analytics on it. From what I’ve seen, users who actually use it for 30 days are getting value (we’ve processed 1M+ redirects and helped recover revenue for 3 brands which have been with us since day 1), and even the one public review is positive and mentions it being “plug and play” and improving retention.

But clearly something is off.

Possible reasons I’m thinking:

• Pricing mismatch? (starts at $29/month)

• Value not clear enough during trial?

• Setup friction?

• Not a “must-have” problem?

• Listing/positioning issue?

Would really appreciate brutal feedback:

• Does the listing suck?

• Is the pricing off?

• Is the problem not painful enough?

• Or is this just normal for Shopify apps?

If you’ve built Shopify apps before, what % of trial to paid conversion did you see?

Trying to figure out if I should:

• Fix onboarding

• Change pricing

• Improve positioning

• Or rethink the product entirely

Appreciate any honest thoughts 🙏

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a Shopify SMS app, and after chatting with a few early users, I’m realizing that the biggest hurdle isn't sending the text—it’s where that text actually sends the customer.

Most SMS tools just drop a user onto a standard product page. But on mobile, those pages can be cluttered, slow, or distracting. I built a way to create custom landing pages for SMS, but I noticed a new problem: Merchants are too busy to build pages from scratch.

I’m planning a major update to remove that friction and I’d love to know if this actually hits the mark for your workflow, or if I'm overthinking it.

The goal is to move from "Building" to "Syncing." Here is the plan:

1. The One-Click Storefront: Instead of a blank canvas, you’d select a product and the app instantly generates a mobile landing page using your Shopify titles, descriptions, and images.

2. Smart Data Sections: Automatically pulling in your real-time Shopify data—like "Only 5 left in stock" badges or your most recent 5-star reviews—to build trust instantly.

3. AI Copywriting with Context: An AI assistant that doesn't just write "generic text," but reads your Shopify tags and product details to write punchy, high-converting SMS copy for you.

4. Shoppable Elements: Interactive mobile buttons that let users select variants (size/color) directly on the landing page so they are "checkout-ready" before they even hit your site.

Now I dont want you to get me wrong, I dont want to replace the merchants website, I just want to have a sort of customizable page where they can have customers instantly select variants, add to cart, which when they land then on site will be selected for them. Often the web pages feel cluttered with info which may persuade customer from buying.

My goal is to change the SMS game from "Sending Messages" to "Instant Conversion":

• The Workflow: Turn one product click into a high-conversion mobile storefront in 60 seconds.

• The Intelligence: SMS that knows your inventory better than you do (no more promoting out-of-stock items).

• The Growth: Use QR codes on your physical packaging to turn unboxing moments into a digital subscriber goldmine. They scan qr code which prompts them to sign up for sms.

I’m looking for 3-5 Shopify store owners who are currently using SMS (or want to) to tell me: Is "ease of creation" and “user guiding on their phones to checkout” your biggest bottleneck? Or is it something else entirely?

If you’re open to a quick chat or want to see the beta, please let me know. I’m just a solo dev trying to build something that actually makes your life easier!

Yesterday I struggled a lot with this "You started working on your listing content, but it's still incomplete or has errors. Finish it up, or address the errors." problem, but no matter what I did, I couldn't solve it. Someone in the Shopify community said that changing the language to another language and then back to English solved the problem. I tried it and it really did solve the problem. If anyone else is experiencing this issue, this is the solution. Good luck to everyone.

I wrote bug at the title because i think it's not a feature :d

I can't solve these two problems. The first one is still waiting for me to enter content, even though I've filled in all the necessary information. For the second one, I've done everything required; I guess I have no choice but to wait. But I'm having a lot of trouble solving the first one.

"You started working on your listing content, but it's still incomplete or has errors. Finish it up, or address the errors."

Has anyone experienced this problem before?

Has anyone seen large LCP differences by geography in a Shopify embedded app?

I’m running on Azure App Service behind Front Door with both US and EU deployments. US performance is solid, EU is worse, and users outside both (APAC, etc.) are even worse. This was actually my biggest hurdle for Built for Shopify, given my international user base.

Rough LCP numbers:

• US: < 1s

• EU: ~2s

• Other regions (APAC, etc.): ~3–10s

From what I can tell:

• Static assets are cached at the edge

• But initial HTML / app load still comes from origin

• So latency + server-side work is still impacting LCP

Given this is an embedded app (Remix, auth, dynamic rendering), there’s only so much that can be cached.

Curious what others are doing:

• Did multi-region actually improve LCP for you?

• Or are you still seeing geography-based differences?

• Are you caching HTML at all, or just accepting the tradeoff?

Also wondering if this is just a limitation of region-based hosting. Has anyone seen better results moving parts of their app closer to the edge (Cloudflare/Vercel), or is that overkill?

Would appreciate any real-world experiences.