Philo Hermans

@faridmovsumov Hoping they get the review part right and not wipe a dozen legit reviews again like during the previous purge 😅

Prediction: Shopify is working on a new App Store, and it will be live before Dot dev. I expect changes mainly in the following areas. - Shopify Ads - Reviews - UX (Some interesting Sidekick related changes for app recommendations) - Ranking algorithm The main reason I have this prediction is that Shopify was extremely silent about App Store-related issues on X recently. I think this happens when they have a solution but can't announce it yet. This is just a personal prediction, let's see...

Developers in 2026

@Ruv3c Tagged 2.0.8 :) let me know if that works

Hi @Philo01, why does version 2.0.7 of Prompt Central keep showing me “Build Expired” and not let me open the app, even though it's the latest version? Thanks so much!! :)

@Ruv3c Thanks for letting me know! Hopefully this will be fixed soon. At the moment, Apple doesn't let met sign a new release. I'll let you know once an update is available to update the expire date.

@hohomelodic @Shopify @ShopifyDevs Still crazy how Shopify removes legit reviews and this crap gets through.

App so good people feel the need to review it within minutes of use.... @Shopify @ShopifyDevs

Had the same experience. I took about a two-week “break,” mostly doing support work, and stopped everything else I was working on. The context switching was killing me, on top of trying to keep up with all the AI developments. There was also this constant anxiety about whether the AI agents were actually doing anything productive. It all resulted in bad sleep, random dizziness, stress; my brain was fried. The break, along with focusing on a limited number of projects, helped me feel sane again 😄 x.com/philo01/status…

As a solo Shopify developer since 2020, people could easily assume that AI made my work lighter. Ironically, in some ways, it’s been the exact opposite for me. Over the past few months, I’ve started struggling with sleep for the first time in my life. My brain just doesn’t seem able to switch off anymore. Before the AI era, I could actually disconnect. I could travel, enjoy weekends, step away from work without constantly thinking about the next feature or project. Now everything moves so fast that I feel permanently “on”. Even on weekends, I end up reopening my laptop, launching Codex or Claude, and finishing “just one more thing”. I genuinely love building with AI and I’m excited by what’s happening right now, but the pace and constant possibilities have changed the way my brain works. Instead of working less, I feel like I’m thinking about work more than ever. And honestly, it’s exhausting sometimes. I’m more tired than before, my sleep is getting impacted, and I’m realizing how difficult it has become to truly disconnect. Curious to know if other solo devs or entrepreneurs are feeling the same lately.

@malisauskasLT Sign me up 🖐️

Recently, it’s become very clear that our community is being threatened by bad actors who are violating multiple Shopify policies without being punished. Shopify likely doesn’t have a system in place (or it isn’t working as it should yet) and shady apps exploit that. Time to do something about it. Here's my idea: - I invite credible app developers to join a private Discord server (strictly invite-only, only verified identities, 100% trusted). - We share evidence about bad actors in our categories, server is well structured and easy to navigate, all violations are timestamped, tracked and updated. Sooner or later, Shopify will act (I honestly believe they care about this) and then we will share all of the well documented evidence with them. Who’s in?

@soulchildpls It’s a pain 😅 I’m hoping they will add a transition period where both tokens work, I’m a bit nervous that it will break things. community.shopify.dev/t/action-requi…

Gonna lock in until end of the year, to migrate all my apps to expiring access tokens 🫠 Before migrating access token, I first have to migrate extensions to Preact (the deadline I assume is July as 2025-07 is the last version to support previous React based and pure javascript extension)

@malisauskasLT 😂

This Shopify app was clearly buying fake 5-star reviews and then didn't pay someone, so they got spammed with 1-star reviews instead which tanked their rating to 2.9 🤣 I have no idea how it passed through Shopify review approval system and got published. Anyone else feeling the new review purge coming? 🤣

@yeramianm Would love to see an actual official reply from Shopify on this though. This needs to be monitored much more closely by @ShopifyDevs, the fact that no one trusts the report option anymore because Shopify doesn't do anything anyway is pretty bad.

Ok maybe we're finally starting to get somewhere with this?

That’s crazy! I think the problem for Shopify is, that if they ban this partner, all those customers will lose the app and they will have a bad experience and they will blame Shopify. For example, it’s been over a year that Shopify threatened to delist/demote one of our apps if we didn’t switch to GraphQL, we didn’t and nothing happened, app is still there. Seems they don’t follow up on their own rules.

How to get rich in Shopify App Store in 6 months: 1. Create a single-feature free Shopify app (feel free to copy some popular app). 2. Use only keywords for your app name, no branding. 3. Farm reviews in the most shady way possible (see attached screenshot for inspiration). 4. Get the Built for Shopify badge somehow anyway. 5. Once the app reaches the top of the rankings, introduce pricing. 6. If executed correctly, $10K MRR is bare minimum. Apparently the worst thing that could happen, app gets delisted for couple of weeks and you're told to get rid of these tactics, but by that time you will probably have hundreds of 5-star reviews and great ranking in the App Store which gets you organic growth and you can work it from there. This company has been doing this among all of their 8 apps since February and their reviews/rankings skyrocketed. I'm pretty sure they're getting thousands of installs every month now. They already rank #1 for some keywords so I'm sure monetization is just around the corner 😅 @ShopifyDevs @liam_at_shopify @atleeclark I think it's becoming very clear that we need much stricter policies, especially with hundreds new apps published every week. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@stevy_smith @farzyness Same 😅

@farzyness I thought it was stuck in that weird state of installing an update but not quite ready to launch yet

Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:

@theo x.com/philo01/status… I managed to get this working using tmux 😄

Just learned it's literally impossible to paste images into Claude Code over SSH. How do you CLI people live like this??

@faridmovsumov @liam_at_shopify Yeah its crazy, I noticed my own ad spend is dropping across the board because these guys are everywhere. If this isn't a bug they must be spending like $50 to like a $100 a click on some keywords.

@Philo01 @liam_at_shopify This is the homepage of the App Store. How is this possible?

I am sure something is broken about Shopify Ads, but I can't prove it. I see everywhere ads for the same set of apps. Either there is a serious bug, or they are just bidding super high everywhere.

@malisauskasLT 😅 that’s crazy, how did those get through 🧐

Someone explain me how apps like this has a Built for Shopify badge while we're always struggling over some minor adjustments? 😭

@matthewsmith I run an automated versioned change log at polaris-changelog.dev/entry/2026-03-… so you can roll back whenever something breaks.

Rethinking Polaris web components after last night. Out of nowhere, the table header just disappears. No code changes on my end. That happens (or course) to coincide with a bug in my export. I was going to tell the customer, "hey, just use the filters for now". But, guess what? Filters are gone. I can't fix the web component b/c it is a black box. So, I apply a quick fix to move the filter out of the table header at the same time as fixing the export bug. Got it done. Profusely apologized. Crisis somewhat adverted. But my reputation with that customer is now damaged all for a few lines of CSS that I probably could have written myself. In retrospect, I think using a polaris css file with standard HTML components would have been better.

@luisfrontend @AnthropicAI 😂

@Philo01 @AnthropicAI "For clarity, we're running a small test on ~2% of the PRs"

Ehm @AnthropicAI, should I be worried?

@straydeg @AnthropicAI Private unfortunately.

@Philo01 @AnthropicAI lmao share repo link if not private