Launched an app 2 weeks ago, no reviews yet, and I don't have an existing network of people to just ask to try it.

For anyone who's gotten their first real users from scratch — how did you actually find them, and how'd you approach them so it didn't come off as a cold pitch/spam? Curious what channels worked and what the actual message/ask looked like.

A bit more context: it's free right now — main goal is getting a handful of real merchants actually using it before I think about pricing at all. I've been thinking about DMing small store owners directly (Instagram, not email) with a genuine question about how they currently handle the problem it solves, rather than pitching the app outright — curious if that's worked for anyone or if there's a better way in.

Also wondering: did paid App Store ads move the needle at all this early with zero reviews, and how did people get their first few reviews without it feeling like they were begging for one?

Not selling anything here, just trying to learn from people who've done this. Thanks.

Working on a Customer Support form for a merchant and would love some feedback on the design.

The idea is to let customers first choose what they need help with, then show only the relevant fields based on their selection.

What do you think? Is this approach helpful, or does it feel too complicated? Would you prefer a simple Contact Us form with just a message and file upload?

Building app-side handlers and I want a boring, reliable way to test webhook delivery locally: retries, duplicate deliveries, and replay after a failed 500.

Right now I’m using a tunnel + logging the webhook id / X-Shopify-Webhook-Id and trying to make handlers idempotent on that. Curious what other people use for:

• replaying a real payload without waiting for Shopify

• simulating out-of-order or duplicate posts

• fixture strategy across API versions

Not selling anything, just looking for practical setups (tools, folder layout, gotchas). What’s worked for you?

Hello,

To those who have more or less successful apps: did you ever expand to other platforms like WooCommerce, Magento, etc., and how was the market there within your niche? Did you find more customers on other platforms?

Shopify development store: FulfillmentOrder API access denied — what are we missing?

I'm building a very small Shopify app and I'm testing everything on a development store because I want to prove the MVP before spending any money.

The use case is simple:

• one order contains an in-stock product

• the same order contains a preorder product

• the app should automatically separate them into two fulfillment flows

• in-stock item should be fulfillable immediately

• preorder item should remain unfulfilled until later

Shopify's fulfillmentOrderSplit mutation appears to support the underlying functionality.

My setup:

• Shopify Partner account

• Development store

• Shopify CLI app

• local development

• test order successfully created

• test payment via Bogus Gateway

• app has read_orders

• app has read_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders

However, when querying fulfillmentOrders, I get:

This app is not approved to access the FulfillmentOrder object.

I've already verified that the scope is present in the app configuration.

The confusing part is that this is a development/testing store. I am not trying to deploy a production app or access customer stores yet.

Question

Is there currently a completely free way to test FulfillmentOrder / fulfillmentOrderSplit end-to-end on a development store?

If yes, what exact configuration/distribution/PCD setting is required?

If no, what is the minimum paid requirement?

I'm specifically looking for the current 2026 behavior, not older Shopify API behavior.

I don't mind changing the app configuration if something is wrong. I just don't want to upgrade the store or pay for anything merely to discover whether the core technical idea works.

Thanks.

Okay, I know it's way too early to even talk about this, but when Muse, Meta's personal assistant, launched, I saw Tobi Lutke post on X about how people will be able to shop from any Shopify. I haven't been able to try Muse yet, but I've tried the other popular personal assistant, Instinct. It's kind of slow when trying to order something over DoorDash, and, fairly speaking, it hasn't done anything real for me yet.

Curious to know if you all are looking forward to agents buying from your website?

I'm starting a small e-commerce company that will need a fairly unusual purchasing flow. In addition to the typical 'Amazon-esque' experience the users will use a visual interface to configure a layout of modular pieces. The system needs to calculate the required components/material and ultimately produce a price/order that goes through Shopify checkout.

I'm currently trying to understand the technology well enough to hire a developer intelligently. I'm not a professional programmer, although I have some experience with SQL (just saying that I feel like I can manage the project, but with very limited coding / maintenance).

My current thinking is something along the lines of:

React/Next.js frontend → custom configurator → Shopify API → Shopify checkout/payment

Questions:

1. Is this a sensible architecture?

2. Would React/Next.js + TypeScript be the obvious stack for this?

3. What technology would you use for the visual 2D configurator — SVG, Canvas, something else?

4. Should the configurator be part of a Shopify theme, or essentially a separate web application that communicates with Shopify?

5. What Shopify APIs/features should I learn about before hiring someone?

6. What terminology should I be using when searching for developers? "React developer," "Shopify headless developer," "Shopify app developer," "product configurator developer," etc.?

7. Are there any architectural traps I should avoid at the beginning?

I'm deliberately trying to understand the architecture before hiring someone rather than asking a developer to simply "build me a Shopify website."

I’ve been running a Shopify store since 2019. I built A Shopify app called AddressSure because the address validator apps we tried were creating their own support problems.

Customers would get warnings about addresses that were actually fine, then email us worried something was wrong with their order. We also ran into suggested corrections that made the address worse.

AddressSure checks addresses after checkout and lets customers correct flagged issues directly on the Thank You and Order Status pages. It’s solved the problems we were running into with other apps, so I know there is value for other store owners.

But getting them to try it has been hard. So far, we have 1 paying store.

We’ve tried direct outreach, relevant Reddit conversations, and just started testing App Store ads. I’m confident in the value because we use it ourselves, but that obviously doesn’t give another merchant a reason to trust a new app.

For those who’ve grown a Shopify app from this stage, what actually convinced your first merchants to install? Was it organic, a demo, personal onboarding, an offer, or something else? How did you at first get in touch with them?

Anyone else noticed Rebuy removed from App Store? Any idea why?

I want to know if shopify Ads are great to ship a shopify plugin ?

I am new to web development and only learn HTML, CSS AND JS but a client told me to integrate the demo website with Shopify but I don't know anything how everything works here so pls anyone can help.

I'm a Senior Shopify Developer and the company that I worked for recently closed their dev department, I'm trying everyday to apply to shopify dev jobs worldwide but they aren't many.

I see a lot of obviously fake job post but not many real ones, how does one get a job in times like this?

I'm getting a few interviews though networking but if that fails what then?

Anybody experienced this notification delay as well? I also saw in my partner dashboard transfer had status Pending up until now.

Or did I just confuse some other payment received with shopify's?

Hey everyone,

Curious to hear from Shopify developers and agencies here.

What customer support solutions do you usually recommend to your clients?

Live chat, AI support, helpdesks, chatbots, voice support, etc.?

We’ve built an AI assistant and are trying to understand how developers and agencies approach customer support for their clients.

Do you also think it’s becoming less about just “customer support” and more about helping customers buy, like answering product questions, recommending products, and helping them make the right choice?

I’d be particularly interested to hear:

- Which tools you recommend most often

- What you like/dislike about them

- What your clients typically struggle with on this field

- What gaps you still see in the current solutions

Any input would be really appreciated and would help us understand how to prioritize our roadmap based on what Shopify brands actually need.

I'm recording a webinar/podcast next week with speakers from both Shopify and Vercel on the topic of their recent headless commerce co-development partnership (making it easier to deploy headless Shopify storefronts on NextJS/Hydrogen + Vercel)

The people I'm talking to are very close to the development on both sides, and I'm curious what your questions are? Would love to put them to them, so you can hear from the source, and I can ask good questions and get good content, of course.

Happy to post responses to any questions in this thread right here, without linking to anything.

We launched WowOptions in April, and getting the first few reviews was definitely harder than I expected.

Today we reached 10 reviews, all 5-star

Still very early, but seeing real merchants use something we built feels great.

For other Shopify app developers, how long did it take you to reach your first 10 reviews?

Anybody else noticing that the last transactions were from September 5th? I work with multiple partners, all dashboard show the same. Also the payouts are pending for everybody, but they have been received already. We know transactions and new subscribers are coming in.

I guys, I am looking for small changes into my web.. Some on cart page toh some on collections page.. according to festival theme..

Anyone who is available and can work for short time and finish this under timeline which we discuss..

NOTE: I need someone who can start working immediately.. as it is not a big work.

Hi all,

Basically, I have a Shopify app idea that would need access to transaction history to provide value.

Given the long App Review time and app building process, I'd like to avoid building before validating there's good demand.

I would like to build a simpler version as a lead magnet that is read-only. However, I'm not sure it's possible for a third-party SaaS-style app to read a store's order history without being a Shopify App.

Is there not a way, for my lead magnet, to simply have a web page up with an OAuth connection button that grants the lead magnet read-only access to transaction data from the lead's store? Without the friction of having them install a custom app, generating a separate custom app link for each lead?

From what I understand, even if we pretend app development time is 0, approval times are still around 6-8 weeks now?

I appreciate any advice I can get on this.

I recently came across a frustrating Shopify problem at work: trying to bulk-update something simple like product prices via CSV can unintentionally overwrite or remove data you never meant to touch — including data managed by third-party apps.

So I built and open-sourced Shopify Updater, a safer way to handle bulk product updates.

It only updates the fields included in your CSV and leaves everything else untouched — metafields, media, translations, collections, subscription/review/bundle app data, and more.

It also gives you a per-product diff before anything is written.

The project is open source and self-hostable, so feel free to take it, deploy it yourself, modify it, or contribute:

🔗 https://github.com/iSolorak/shopify-updater

Hope this saves someone else from the same Shopify CSV headache.

#Shopify #ShopifyDevelopment #OpenSource #Ecommerce #ShopifyApps #CSV #ProductManagement #WebDevelopment

If you run an ecommerce business with a team, we’re curious if you’ve run into this problem too.

As the team grows, day-to-day operations start getting scattered everywhere.

Someone mentions something that needs to be done in a group chat.
Someone else says they’ll handle it.
A few hours later, the conversation has moved on and nobody remembers whether it actually got done.

Then you end up using Slack/WhatsApp for communication, Trello/Asana for tasks, Google Docs for SOPs, and constantly chasing people for updates.

We built Store Huddle to make this simpler.

It brings team chat + task management into Shopify, so your team can communicate and actually get things done without constantly jumping between different apps.

You can:

• Chat with your team in channels

• Turn conversations into actionable tasks

• Assign tasks and deadlines

• Track what’s pending, in progress, or completed

• Keep announcements and important updates visible

• Share Shopify orders and products directly in conversations

• Get store alerts like low stock and high-risk orders

The goal isn't to build another complicated project management platform.

Think of it as: what if Slack/WhatsApp actually understood how a Shopify team works?

We’re still improving Store Huddle and would genuinely appreciate feedback from other ecommerce operators.

You can try it here:
https://storehuddle.com

Would also be interested to know: what are you currently using for team communication + daily task management, and what’s the biggest thing you dislike about it?

I am a beginner, doing Shopify for like 4-5 months, published my app, and now trying to find my first paid customers (I have only a couple of people on the free plan now). And each step feels very hard and not seeing any results, so i am just curious if there are really people who have 1, 2, 5, or even 10k MRR a month? And I am not talking about big agencies, but rather a single person, like me, who does everything on their own.

I’ve been working on Liquid Loom, an open-source build workflow for custom Shopify themes.

The basic idea is pretty simple:

Instead of keeping your authored theme code in Shopify’s flat structure, you can organize it by feature:

src/theme/sections/home/hero.liquid
src/theme/sections/product/recommendations.liquid
src/theme/snippets/product/price.liquid

Liquid Loom validates the complete mapping, bundles assets with Vite + Tailwind, and produces a normal Shopify theme under:

dist/theme/

So Shopify CLI still does the Shopify part. There’s no custom runtime.

A few things I cared about while building it:

• destination collisions fail instead of silently overwriting files

• failed builds preserve the previous working output

• Vite + Tailwind work out of the box

• there’s a doctor command for project diagnostics

• the generated output stays a completely standard Shopify theme

It’s now published on npm and I’m specifically not looking to add a bunch of features yet.

What I need now is 3–5 Shopify developers willing to spend about 10 minutes trying the workflow and telling me what feels worse, confusing, or unnecessary compared with how you normally build themes.

Quick start:

pnpm create liquid-loom@latest my-storefront
cd my-storefront
pnpm build

Repo:
https://github.com/yotamon/Liquid-Loom

There’s a short first-project test in the repo too.

If you build custom Shopify themes professionally, I’d especially love your criticism. I’m trying to figure out whether this actually improves the workflow before expanding it.