Daniel Sim

So... after 10 years as an entrepreneur and a life-changing exit I took a job. AMA I guess? danielrsim.com/quitting-entre…

@cargix1 @ShopifyDevs @zapiet @Shopify Love this @cargix1!

The absolute highlight of my @ShopifyDevs career 🥳 I'll be speaking at Editions.dev on June 25th in Toronto, Canada! Learn how I built @zapiet as a bootstrapped founder into the market leader for all things pickup and delivery on @Shopify, and get a glimpse into my vision for the future of retail. Who's coming?

@l8r_graham Great news! Love what you’re building @l8r_graham and team!

Mantle has acquired both App Store Analytics (ASA) and Shopify App Store Index (SASI) from Union Works. It’s an investment that we’re really excited about. Each product has their own claim to excellence in the respective spaces they serve and the Mantle team has a big vision for what this move is going to enable. We’ve been working with the @UnionWorksLtd team since January to complete the deal and want to thank them for building something treasured by Shopify App Partners of all sizes, all over the world. The same thanks is extended to @drsim , original founder of App Store Analytics for the work he put into building for Shopify App Partners. For now, it will be business as usual as the Mantle team remains focused on the roadmap in front of us and our customers to improve our core product daily. Users of ASA can expect continued and uninterrupted access to ASA for the near to medium term. SASI users can expect the same, and with the confidence that Mantle has no plan to introduce any monetization to the current feature set SASI users have come to love. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be communicating with users of both products about changes we plan to introduce. Happy Friday everyone. Couldn't be more excited to build for the builders.

Can't believe it - 1,000 reviews for @rewind on the @Shopify App Store - and an average 4.9 rating on them all! Launched nearly 8 years ago, now protecting over 25k Shopify stores. Incredibly proud to have helped thousands recover from data disasters.

Excited to launch our SAAS for recipe creators. The market has exploded, but they're cobbling things together that weren't built for them. Jumping back into B2B with a freemium offering built exclusively for recipe creators. Grow, engage + monetize a recipe audience. Never been so excited. Live in a few weeks.

So happy App Store Analytics has found a great home with Sam, Alex, and Steve at SASI… one of the most respected tools for Shopify app devs!

Somewhat sitting in the 🇩🇪 glass house here, but what heck is this @dhh 🇩🇰?

@JoshHighland Congrats on the launch!

SEO Manager 4.0 for Shopify is here! Tons of new features and pricing plans, including a free option! apps.shopify.com/seo-meta-manag…

@kinngh @hunkybill @rewind Thanks for your support! The @rewind team and I are always here for you... especially this week... 🫡

@kinngh @hunkybill @rewind 💛

Just a reminder to back up all your merchants themes just in case, you know, they decide a last minute switch up is a good idea and then call you "MY SITE IS BROKEN HELP ME"

Is your store backed up?

@awilkinson @rahulvohra Done: @bradmiller

I wish that Superhuman AI would automatically draft what it assumes my response will be so it's pre-filled when I open the email (CC: @rahulvohra)

@petersuhm A great feeling, enjoy!

Just booked the first vacation in 8 years where I'm not going to have to do support and bug fixes! 🤯 🥳

My company, Calm Fund, has a big problem and I need your help. We are being sued by SureSwift Capital over the @FounderSummit event series we put on over the past few years. The main issue we have is the impending massive cost of doing discovery in a modern remote company that uses a lot of software, but first here is some context: SureSwift is a PE fund that acquires software companies. We signed a lightweight joint venture agreement to collaborate on the Founder Summit which was an IRL event in Mexico City, an online community and another event in North Carolina. After the final IRL event we terminated the joint venture. The events were by all accounts a huge success, and all in the joint venture posted a small net loss. Then we announced our intention to host our own slate of events in 2023, but ultimately had to cancel those due to budget constraints and reducing our team size. Then SureSwift sued us claiming that we had misappropriated the "intellectual property" and "trade secrets" like the "business model" and "virtual network connections" of the new-terminated Founder Summit JV for the now-cancelled Calm Summits. The suit is a matter of public record and I won't speak about it much further except to say that we deny the allegations and it is my strong belief we would win in a trial. The issue is that we are about to enter the phase pre-trial procedures called Discovery (or eDiscovery) where each side is obligated to share with the other side provide all sorts of their own documents and communications that could be relevant to the case. The big problem is that with modern remote companies using many collaboration tools to create emails, slack messages, docs comments, notion databases, etc the volume of data and the cost of discovery (collecting, reviewing, filtering and processing all these files) seems to have exploded. I've been hearing estimates of hundreds of thousands or more than $1m in costs just to comply with eDiscovery for a single case. That's an insane amount of money, especially relative to the stakes we're talking about in this matter. It puts a huge amount of pressure on folks like me to just settle since its not worth it to go to trial, spend even more money on pre-trial, and still have at least some small % chance of losing. As best as I have learned, in Delaware Chancery court it is also very rare to get your attorneys' fees reimbursed or be able to countersue for the costs when you win. So basically, the status quo situation in the American legal system is that if someone is willing to sue you and willing to spend a boatload of money themselves, they can force you to spend a boatload too (potentially all the way into bankruptcy) with no real defense or recourse unless you settle on whatever terms they dictate. When I asked my LPs for feedback or advice on this topic I was shocked by two things: 1. How many of them had dealt with a bogus lawsuit. 2. How essentially nobody had heard of any good ways to resolve it except paying out a settlement, even if you did nothing wrong. This is a totally insane state of affairs and has been eye-opening for me. Its also a huge risk for early stage founders who simply can't afford a big pay off settlement. I don't see any way I can bring myself to pay a settlement just because its cheaper than litigating the issues. Once you open that door, how do you avoid just becoming a piggy bank for anyone and everyone willing to bring a lawsuit against you? So I'd like to tackle this issue head on and try to find an affordable way to comply with eDiscovery so we can get to a trial and resolve the actual question. The reasons eDiscovery is so expensive don't seem intractable to me and there has got to be a way to do this that is at all proportional in costs to the actual matters of the case. But I need help. 1. Founders (or anybody really) if you have dealt with this issue before and found any kind of good solutions or can point to any good resources please reply below and amplify 🙌 2. I'm looking to collaborate with counsel or firms that have experience tackling this issue or want to. I know a big problem with this whole situation is that nobody on the legal side is particularly incentivized to help reduce costs on this matter, but believe me the entrepreneurial community will be forever grateful for help on this 🙏

@nomad_maker Of course! Keep being great!

I was just reading @drsim's newsletter regarding Shopify app store news and the latest App Store Analytics's product updates. Super interesting! When suddenly I see that Daniel mentioned my newsletter and said he liked it! 🤯 What an honor!!! Thank you for the kind words 💚

@gilgNYC @CheckoutBlocks I’d always start with support. Wrote about my process here danielrsim.com/how-i-hired-su…

At this point, the only thing stopping me is my inability to grow the team. Any good resources for scaling the team, first hires, etc? @CheckoutBlocks is fully solo bootstrapped, so no investors or cofounders to ask. Friends are helpful but don't want to spam them.😅

@Kevin_McArdle Ha! You got me. Great clickbait.

"This is Warren and Charlie's favorite new newsletter..." was not something I expected to hear this week, but it was such a treat! ** Big Band publishes our thoughts and the best of what we read on the internet...the first of the month...every month...guranteed. That means the next issue drops on Sunday. Sign up below so you don't miss it. news.bigbandsoftware.com/subscribe **Warren and Charlie are friends of mine from childhood and not professional investors of any kind. 😉

New partnermetrics.io is out 🎉 Much cleaner Rails 7 codebase + - More accurate churn calculations - Support for yearly subscription metrics - Forecasts on graphs - Import up to 12 years of history - Smoother and faster imports Enjoy! ☺️ Note: The globe only shows on CSV imports as they have shop country data available 🌍

Love seeing @rewind included in the list of top @Shopify apps for big businesses, leading the way for #ShopifyPlus stores to manage risks to their stores. apps.shopify.com/stories/guide-…

@dennishegstad Dennis, you really do do the work. In spite of that this one didn’t come through. BIG RESPECT for what you do and how you do it. Not a shred of doubt that you will succeed in building the life you want.

This is a hard post to write for me and the first time i've had to do this We bootstrapped and sold 2 shopify apps in the past for 8 and 7 figures. I thought we had it "all figured out". We raised capital for the first time. Obviously the 3rd app will be a grand slam, right?

Very promising @ShopifyDevs! A nice new event to help attribution tracking in Google Analytics. Could make the AppStoreAnalytics.io attribution early access preview event better! 👀 shopify.com/partners/blog/…