The day has come.
@recheck_app
went public today on
@Shopify
! 🎉
This is the first step of our 10 year journey to building a portfolio of Shopify apps focused on solving painkiller problems.
After 3 months in the beta oven, it's finally out!
Link in comments 👇
@ramit
Crazy how so many comments are assuming that you’re arguing against home ownership when you’re just talking about understanding the overall cost and whether it works for you. Smh 🤦🏻♂️
So proud and happy for my boy
@kinngh
winning the first ever Build Award!
Don’t know anyone else who does even half as much as him for the community.
Well deserved!
There are 7528 public apps on the
@Shopify
app store.
3360 apps (45%) have ZERO reviews.
Another 1767 apps (23%) have less than 10 reviews.
Want to get out of the bottom 68%? Read on 🧵👇
If I was to write a playbook for Shopify ads - the exact same one I've used for 80 apps (and counting) - who would be interested in getting their hands on it?
It's a rough draft rn, but will work on cleaning it up if there's enough demand.
Touchdown in Toronto - 35 hours after leaving Bangalore
Last time I was here was for Unite 2019…
Have a feeling
@Shopify
Editions 2024 is gonna blow that out of the water
Missing:
@PrakharS96
who’s explaining it’s “Editions” not “Additions” to an immigration officer
We’re bringing our developer community together — in person.
is coming to Toronto on June 25.
Learn from our product teams, tinker with our latest APIs & extensions, and go deep on what’s new in the Summer ‘24 Edition.
Get your tickets this Wednesday.
So... I'm hiring.
We've got 8 Plus brands and 2 agencies who have signed up for the private beta and planning to move in stealth for at least 2-3 months.
If you're interested, check the link in comments for more info.
RT / like pliz for karma 🫡
🚨 Life update 🚨
(No, I'm not getting married!)
I turned 30 last month.
Got me thinking - what do I want for the next phase of my life?
Yes, I’m already building
@recheck_app
since a couple of months.
But it’s easy to get lost in the day to day work of building a startup.
I
Are you a
@Shopify
app founder looking to optimize your app store listing and improve your search rankings?
I'm revealing one of the most powerful hacks in my optimization playbook - How you can use Shopify ad data to improve your search rankings.
Pull up a chair & read on👇
Submitted my next app for approval just now
Wanted to do it last week but took the call of onboarding a new dev who would lead the charge in the long run
Are you struggling with pricing your app/product?
This is a story of how we cracked pricing at
@pushowl
to achieve hockey stick growth in revenue and became the premium web push provider for Shopify Plus brands.
Let's dive into what we did🧵👇
Just wrapped up an hour long call with my favorite team in
@Shopify
.
Big thanks to
@pmillegan
@nicklenko
and
@graeme_kemp
for giving so much feedback to improve
@recheck_app
🫶🏼
Despite not being in the launch program, we're going to come out better thanks to this call!💪🏻
.
@Shopify
Editions is going to be packed with announcements.
So we figured why not host a small meetup right after, and unpack everything on 26th June.
Come join
@cp_saravana
,
@harshulj
and me for Post-Editions in Toronto!
Link in 🧵
“Don’t do sketchy shit” -
@Tina_Donati
Great advise for app devs but the ones who most need to hear this are the ones who definitely won’t 🤷🏻♂️
#preditions
Just hit submit on the launch partner application for
@recheck_app
after several sleepless nights by
@ayysoni
Re-recorded the demo based on some solid feedback in yesterday's spaces from
@pmillegan
and team.
Wake me up when (❌ September) ✅ November ends.
Want to take a moment to thank a special teammate from
@PushOwl
- Dany
She's one of the OGs - the earliest member, only after
@shashankkr9
and myself.
Dany's also known as:
- Miss "Who told you to stop petting me?!"
- Food vacuum
- Chief paper / package shredder
- "Are you
📢 Shopify Ads guide update:
First draft is 70-75% done at almost 3700 words so far.
Working on completing the first draft by this weekend.
Then:
1. Structuring the guide into better sections
2. Rewriting some parts
3. Sharing it with experts like
@DebMecca
to get feedback
Spreading the gospel of
@heymantle
to unsuspecting travellers on our flights…
And if they don’t have a
@shopify
app or store, we’ll just have to get to make one.
Weekend just got a whole lot better…
Big time Shopify Plus brand migrating from Magento to
@Shopify
installed
@recheck_app
.
Turns out, they also becoming an agency with a handful of brands they already consult with 🤯
Pays to do support on weekends
Signed up for
@jon_kennedy1
's App Store Research to do some user interviews for a new app.
INSANE quality of participants!
Got my first research call tomorrow... can't wait to get back into app building
Fired a client today.
My experience with the Shopify partners, especially the app community has been overwhelmingly positive in the last 6 years.
But once in a while you end up with a rotten apple.
Surprisingly feels like a weight off my shoulders.
Just started onboarding a HUGE supplement multi-brand on
@recheck_app
- $20m+ in US alone
- Multiple brands under one umbrella (separate stores for each)
- In 7 different countries
Bunch of customization to be done but no biggie 💪🏻💪🏻
Can’t be just me who finds it weird that a store doing less than $3k/mo is on Shopify Plus.
Won’t the basic plan be much better suited here? What am I missing?
Getting so close to submitting my app for approval... fingers crossed it'll get done in the next 48 hours.
Just need to throw up a barebones website for privacy policy + ToS, some bug bashing, and we're off to the races 🏃♂️
So good to see someone in India taking the initiative to do such a big time event.
And even better when it’s your friends who are doing it!
@adhithya_vijai
@PrakharS96
🙌🏻🙌🏻
There's something truly special about gathering with the
@ShopifyDevs
community here in India. 🇮🇳 Tomorrow, we're not just attending ShopQuest—we're a global family coming together to share, learn, connect, and support one another. The energy is electric, and the potential is
Just signed the first Plus agency partner for the new app.
Got lucky today… 4th brand owner rescheduled the research call.
But a Plus agency owner DM’d instead and had a gap in their schedule who could fit me in ✌🏻
Got to meet the one and only
@l8r_graham
in person.
10/10 online personality = IRL vibes
Meanwhile losers like
@joshgosse
couldn’t be bothered to make it on time. Tch tch
Mistakes from yesterday's launch. We didn't have:
- Intercom set up to log new installs
- Intercom installed on my phone
- A welcome email
I need to "consult" myself better 💀😂
Yesterday was amazing! 🔥
We are connected with
@BallinFil
for about 2 years now. He has given us multiple rounds of brutal feedbacks and that has worked wonders for us.
Thank you for being so welcoming. It was awesome 🙌
@Shopify
ecosystem is wonderful that way 💚
This is the frontend prototype is which helped me close 6 Plus brands and 1 Plus agency in 3 weeks - without having a functional app.
When the problem you solve is painful enough, users don't care about the UI / UX.
They care about results.
Today's the end of the 3rd week since I started working on my new app.
Status:
✅ 6 Plus brands have joined private beta (2 from
@jon_kennedy1
's ASR platform + 4 from pre-sales)
✅ 1 Plus agency onboarded (Possibly 2 by tomorrow)
I’ve been left alone with a bag of
@felixandnorton
cookies at Editions….
@seempaq
if you find the bag to be lighter, it wasn’t me - I was ganged up on to give up the goods!
Had a wide ranging chat with
@bennydotevents
today.
Even after 7 years in the ecosystem, I remain amazed by just how accessible everyone in the
@shopify
team is.
From
@harleyf
&
@tobi
on down, every damn person is so empathetic and ready to listen.
👆 is why I love Shopify.
If
@Shopify
maintains even half this pace of development, the platform is just going to cement itself as the no brainer solution for anyone wanting to start their store
Time for Partner Lunch Meetup
#2
in September.
The first one was great and was blown away by how many people wanted to come, so turning this into a monthly thing now!
When: 14 Sept, 1PM
Where: Indiranagar
Got only 4 out of 12 slots remaining.
Who wants to join?
Super excited to have
@recheck_app
sponsor Shop Quest.
And there's a giveaway too!
Recheck will sponsor 2 tickets randomly from anyone who comments on this tweet below in the next 48 hours.
(If you've already signed up, you will get a refund)
Registration link in thread 🧵
Guess what's the first tool I'm adding for my new app on launch?
PS - There's no right answer other than
@heymantle
Using this for a few of my clients and f* me if these guys haven't built a beast!
Today's the end of the 3rd week since I started working on my new app.
Status:
✅ 6 Plus brands have joined private beta (2 from
@jon_kennedy1
's ASR platform + 4 from pre-sales)
✅ 1 Plus agency onboarded (Possibly 2 by tomorrow)
I acquired a Shopify app. ALMOST. 🫠
Deal fell through at the last possible step just before we would have docusigned and began the handover process.
AMA.
Shopify devs! If you want:
- Cool swag designed for your app
- Redo your app listing images
- Make your website pop
You gotta hit this guy up.
One of the PushOwl OGs who’s behind the brand identity of the company + now he’s dabbling in ecom too!
(Maybe a dumb question) As per docs, customer ui extensions are only available on dev stores.
So what happens if we ship a customer accounts feature on our prod app? Will existing users just not have access to it? Or it'll break the whole app functionality?
CC:
@pmillegan
Shopify will stop being the middle-man (or middle-company? 🤔) for refund requests.
Merchants need to contact the app partner directly now.
App devs - Remember to check your spam folders regularly. Else you might attract a negative review if you miss an email.
My app's going to be private for a while but I wanted to give a shoutout to
@janardhanux
for designing a kickass logo 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Dude's in great demand for BFS, app design etc for Shopify apps. So if y'all want to work with him, drop him a msg!
Announcing Shop Quest - Developer Edition! 🥳🔥🔥
Bringing Shopify Agencies &
@ShopifyDevs
under one roof on the 4th of October!! 🙌
Registrations open soon!
Thank you to
@liam_at_shopify
for supporting us with this event!
Had a short "grief" call with
@ayysoni
... back to building.
He could have come out of the basement tonight for a treat, but now it's lockdown again until the next milestone.
Got a lot done today for
@recheck_app
…
- 2 agency calls done
- 2 merchant calls done
- Booked 3 merchant calls for Monday
- Closer to shipping a neat upsell feature add on for the core product (thanks to the team, I cant code for shit 🤣)
🤣🤣🤣
Nah but s/o to you dude.
Front end, back end, designer, PM all rolled into one.
Idk how your juggling it but making sure we ship new features, improve older ones, give a new coat of paint, work on cust. accounts all at the same time
Woke up to a couple of DMs asking me how their apps can be selected for the customer accounts launch partner program.
Guys, sorry but the deadline is long gone 😅
But you can still build the extension, which will get you added to the “works with customer accounts” filter
Been 2 weeks since I submitted my app for approval but still no install from the review team. What's happening? 😭😭😭
Saw that
@SammyIsseyegh
and other devs I follow had their apps approved when we all submitted around the same time.
What did I do wrong? 🫠
@FORSBERGtwo
With this much social proof, long time player in ecosystem and still if 1 negative review can bring your app down then the processes for delisting need looking into.
Hope you’re back up again soon!
It's great to see that this got resolved.
But I feel things could have been handled better.
Don't get me wrong - I love Shopify. If I didn't, there's no way I would still be in this ecosystem for 7 years and counting.
The app store has generally trended towards getting better
Shopify found nothing wrong with TinyIMG and re-listed. I stressed out the importance to the governance team to give at least 24 hours to respond before delisting especially when there is no evidence of wrongdoing.
Hopefully they take our advice and this does not happen again!
Plan for Week 4:
1️⃣ Finalize feature set and micro-releases for MVP
2️⃣ 2 more research calls (potential sales opportunity)
3️⃣ Outreach for 20 more leads
4️⃣ Finalize an app name + buy domain 😅
That feeling when you realize the visa you thought you didn't need to actually expires just 3 days before the flight
Thank fucking god I checked my damn passport today. Would have bawled by eyes out if I found this at the airport 🤡