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Getting #BuiltForShopify (💎)wasn’t easy — but we made it! Tough process, great feedback. your input helped us level up our app admin. Thank you❤️ @Shopify @harleyf You are building the community to the next level and we’re proud to be part of it. #ShopifyApps #Flits #BFS

I can't remember how many merchants I have talked to who uses Sidekick as their co-founder now. It's great for agencies, merchants and app devs! Everyone can benefit from it.

Shopify is preparing for AI shopping agents to change everything, exec says techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/sho…

The interface to commerce is about to change. Humans browsing → Agents helping people shop. Our job stays the same: build the best platform for entrepreneurs so their products show up everywhere commerce happens. Including AI.

The jobs apocalypse is the Population Bomb of our time. Instead we're seeing more hiring in the job most affected by AI: programming. That should have been clear and obvious to anyone with basic economics understanding and good handle on the history of technology but it's sadly lacking today. Fear sells. It drives clicks. It drive engagements. The jobs apocalypse scenario comes from catastrophizing personalities and people who think of life as a zero sum game. It's the same mistake the communist theorists made. They thought jobs and labor were fixed and there's nothing new under the sun. If we take one job that job is lost forever and that person is now useless. Wrong. Instead, what happens is that when something gets faster and cheaper we want more of it. Much more. There is so much software that we could not build before because there weren't enough skilled people and not enough time and it wasn't worth the time or money. Now it is worth it because it is faster and cheaper. Cheaper for SaaS builders, cheaper for individuals, cheaper for enterprises, cheaper for everyone. That's why were are seeing programmer jobs tick upwards. Right now we are not seeing juniors get hired but that is also always the case in a recovery. We just saw mass layoffs because of overhiring during COVID and cheap money printing that made lending essentially free. The unskilled, aka junior workers, are always the last hired. You want skilled verterans who can take on the new technology with experience and take off running not someone you have to train and babysit when you have been stuck in third gear for a few years. Job populists on the hard left like Sanders and many of his mirrors on the populist hard right are the enemies of actual working economies and must be resisted at all costs. They hurt the very people they hope to help by clinging to the past and thinking of life as a zero sum game. This increase in jobs is the reality that will increasingly play out over the next few years if AI keeps getting better, barring some other economic shock that changes the game. It will increasingly play out even when we have "geniuses in a datacenter." It will be a shock to some. Just not the jobs shock they were expecting. Sorry to disappoint but we're not getting UBI any time soon while the robots do all the jobs and you sit on your ass. Seems like we are all going to have to work a bit longer.

Shopify is down Customers are not able to finish their checkouts Pause your ad spends if your stores are affected

The world of software leaps forward right now _by the weekend_

The best brands stay a little weird. They ship things that don’t always look scalable. They create moments that make their community lean in. @JW_Anderson made a pigeon clutch. Balenciaga sold a luxury trash bag. @MSCHF dropped the big red boot. On paper, some of it looks absurd. But it builds cultural equity. The moment you optimize away the weird, you lose the soul. What other brands are getting this right?

@pmillegan Really Great Update @pmillegan

Implementing on your theme is easy! Follow the Dev docs: shopify.dev/docs/storefron… OR ask sidekick to do it for you !! 🤯🤯

Today at @Shopify we're making sign-in WAY BETTER Introducing the ACCOUNT COMPONENT for Shopify stores 🤩🥹 Rolling out TODAY across all stores with Horizon, AND coming very soon to many more 3P themes !! Detailed walkthru in NEXT TWEEET👇 x.com/ShopifyDevs/st…

Ai will disrupt a lot of legacy software. It WILL NOT disrupt Shopify. It will accelerate a deflationary trend we have seen for 5+ years. VC backed saas comes out with a great new feature and charge like hell for it. Then, a bootstrapped competitor comes out and one shots you. Wunderkind was charging me 20k a month. Now TIE does it for 5k a month OR LESS! Yopto saw what happened and lowered prices. Rivo and Richpanel are in the shadows, waiting to drink the blood of VC unicorns. But no one will ever disrupt Shopify. It is my customer database. My product database. My data from 10+ years. It’s my entire website, my front end, my back end, my livelihood. It’s my payment processor, it’s my marketing arm (with shop app) If ai drives value to the incumbents, Shopify will win. If ai drives value to the users and customers, Shopify will win. Founder writing code, canceling meetings, and the GMV is growing like hell. Shopify will win.

Shopify app and theme teams all want to partner with agencies for co-marketing, but very few want to lead the interaction by sending traffic and leads first. Win attention by linking to or driving a lead to an agency partner first.

If birthday rewards depend on one day, they’re easy to miss. Flits now lets you issue birthday points before, on, or after the birthday. Smarter timing. Better redemptions. No extra discounts. blog.getflits.com #FlitsNewUpdate #BirthdayPointsUpdate #LoyaltyProgram

@Jerrythe2d Good one 🙌😍

Wow this video got almost 200K views in 24 hours

In a few hours we drop one of our best @BigShotPodcast interviews ever. A builder who helped shape Wall Street and the global financial system for decades. Pure hustle. Pure grit. Stay close. This story is unbelievable.

Big week for all commerce / retail entrepreneurs. Let’s go.

@ShibinCo @Shopify @yanchummar @shop Test Shop Mini, purchase outdoor dog bed that I didn’t realize I needed. Nice work.

⁦⁩ 🛍️ Shopify Plus merchants, meet the ultimate upgrade: The ⁦@getflits⁩ Customer Account Drawer – a seamless, on-brand slide-out that brings account features right to your storefront. Faster. Sleeker. Built for conversion. #ShopifyPlus #Flits #ecommerce

Anyone still struggling with Built for shopify Tag? I must say, follow all suggestions which given by shopify team, It will improve your UX 100% for sure @Shopify ❤️ #BFS @Shopify #shopifyapp

🌡️ @Shopify's @harleyf: you can't build a company at scale if you're burning with "exothermic" energy. Don't be a thermometer, reflecting the temperature of the room. You must be a thermostat and set it 🔥 🔥. @ElevateTechCA

@WadhawanS @Shopify @harleyf Sure , Happy to share key points soon

@Gunjan2810 @Shopify @harleyf Please share some learning’s and tips to help fellow developers

Getting #BuiltForShopify (💎)wasn’t easy — but we made it! Tough process, great feedback. your input helped us level up our app admin. Thank you❤️ @Shopify @harleyf You are building the community to the next level and we’re proud to be part of it. #ShopifyApps #Flits #BFS

Build faster with new Polaris patterns, now live on the Shopify Dev MCP server