Simon G

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@patjakubik Ridiculous. Also, what’s this price sensitivity with Plus merchants.

A Shopify Plus merchant has happily used our app for 6 months. Then they ask for a discount in exchange for a review and a feature on our website. We don't usually do discounts, but I offer one if they switch to annual. They decline - and leave a 1-star review: "The app covers our needs, but at an unnecessarily high price". Doesn't feel right that they can sabotage us like that @liam_at_shopify ?

@eliasstravik Neat. Stopped by max iterations or did it decide that it had resolved the issue at some point all by itself?

> spent hours debbuging an issue step by step > kill me, agi is decades away > asked claude to give me a ralph loop i could give it in return > started ralph loop > went to pick up 3yo at preschool > got home an hour later > issue solved flawlessly > i was the problem all along

EliteCart now supports free gifts via cart transform functions! Shopify Plus merchants can use any product as a free gift without needing duplicate "phantom products". We replicated our complete gift logic into a cart transform and first merchants started using it! 🥳

Our app has a @GleapSDK powered chatbot. It's pretty good at answering questions. Why do folks that have a very simple question regularly just click "talk to a human" before even asking AI 🤖

Exciting developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-de…

@harrybrundage Very interesting read!

Mom I sharded gadget.dev/blog/sharding-…

@Moore @TRPage_dev @Shopify Neat. How do you invoke it programmatically?

For the last week I have been using a Claude Code subagent for translating @Shopify theme locale json files. Any time I add, remove or change a key or value, the subagent will automatically translate into German, French, Japanese, etc. 👉 Agent prompt - gist.github.com/jonathanmoore/…

Were excited about @smartlead_ai, set up everything, warmed up inboxes for weeks. Ran a simple test - turns out if a lead would reply to an email it doesn't get to our Master inbox ❌. Support has done nothing for 1+w now.

@mccrawf7 Appreciate it, email sent 🙏 Enjoy your holiday

@SimonGeldner Sorry to hear that. Definitely will help. Send me shop URL and details Mike(dot)crawford(at)shopify(dot)com I’m on holiday until Tuesday but will get someone started on it.

@mccrawf7 Shopify broke our tax setup (EU to UK, D2C), which has worked for years. Support has been unhelpful. Hoping I can get some help 🙏

"Gadget, build me a Shopify app that lets me create a product recommendation quiz that I can show on my store" OAuth to Shopify connects to APIs, fetches product data, and provides a UI (embedded in Shopify) to create a quiz and map answers to product recommendations— in <5 min.

We’re releasing improved versions of the Command R series, our enterprise-grade AI models optimized for business use cases. You can access them on our API, @awscloud Sagemaker, and additional platforms soon. cohere.com/blog/command-s…

@DmytroKrasun I've tried it a couple of times, but for some reason, I really like Claude 3.5 Sonnet these days. Despite the context-switching, it makes me write and copy code more consciously. For autocomplete, I use @SupermavenAI in VS Code.

@tobi @pip_net is not the only one 😅

*Deep breath* Spotify eh? 😑

🆕 Prompt caching with Claude. Caching lets you instantly fine-tune model responses with longer and more instructive prompts—all while reducing costs by up to 90%. Available in beta on the Anthropic API today. anthropic.com/news/prompt-ca…

Picking your next (react) library? Check State of React for a) growing usage with b) high positive sentiment and c) little negative sentiment. E.g. shadcn/ui seems to be on a good path! 2023.stateofreact.com/en-US/librarie…

@eliasstravik So true. Would you start with a (hyper)-niche and potentially pivot? Or start broad and niche down?

if the business term does not yet exist, i'd like to call this a blue lagoon. from the outside, calendar apps looks like the reddest of red oceans. thousands of alternatives, basically no differentiation. but if you pick a niche, like Saturn Calendar did with high school students, suddenly there can be a blue lagoon. turns out that high school students live in a very particular context and have very specific needs and desires. completely underserved by regular calendar apps. the Saturn team realised this, served this niche better than anyone else, and hit #1 in the app store. don't just pick a problem to solve. pick a customer to solve it for. find your blue lagoon.

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." Peter Drucker.