Axel Hardy

As a solo Shopify app developer, my earnings now exceed my dreams, but this success wasn't immediate. Over 4 years, I offered comprehensive website development services on Fiverr, often receiving just $5 per task. I was featured as the "developer of the week" on CodeCanyon but was selling complete projects for just $15. I worked as a freelance mobile app developer with highly technical projects but I always found myself significantly underpaid. Then, I created my first Shopify app. It failed. I gave up. I retried on another app, it failed again. I gave up for one year and went back at it again during covid lockdown. This time it finally worked! But I don't regret these 10 years of my life before discovering the Shopify app ecosystem. It brought me the developer experience I use today in my Shopify apps, helped me to handle the communication with merchants in a better way and most importantly, taught me that success does not come overnight.

@TalktoHenryJ Not sure if I’m doing it right, but I don't accept any code change automatically and most importantly, I review it, read it multiple times and test everything even more than before using AI...

I just started using Claude Code... I know, I'm super late but... Are yall just accepting all code changes? I feel like it's hard to understand everything without the IDE.

This one is even more impressive 😅 I must admit I hadn’t optimized CLS at all before this update… but it looks like things are now going in the right direction 😊

Is this a related issue as well?

@SammyIsseyegh @atleeclark @Shopify Congrats Sam!!

Absolutely insane. POS Cues is approved. It took 7 hours. 👏 I know there's a mad increase in submissions atm (cc: @atleeclark latest tweet), so I think this is probably the most OP Built for @Shopify (BFS) perk there is?

@factory_thom Mainly, I ensured the onboarding checklist on the homepage was fully loaded before the page rendered, which wasn’t the case before. The tricky part is to decide what to handle in the backend vs what to load dynamically on the front, without impacting CLS or overall loading speed

@fraxool Great stats ! What was your biggest improvement ?

It seems like a few JS optimizations have a real impact on CLS 😎

@devulll Yep, I enabled it again. Then went to incognito mode, opened my store from Google and the redirect loop occurred again...

@fraxool Still not? Easiest way to confirm is to type your brand name on google and click on the link. The issue also affects that, if it opens, it's good. Mine was luckily fixed when I wrote that message. I can reach back out to the guy at Shopify that got this done if neccessary.

Looks like Shopify pushed an overnight change? This morning we got “Too many redirects” issue on my wife store. Cloudflare and SSL were fine. After digging, I disabled this setting and everything worked again. In case someone faces the same issue...

@devulll Edit : nope, still does not work on my end after enabling the option. They're working on a fix.

@fraxool @fraxool Shopify just rolled out a fix for this, you can turn Automatic Redirection back on.

@devulll Thanks for confirming! And yes, I got a message from Shopify about the fix as well 😉

This morning, out of nowhere, my wife’s Shopify store started showing a “Too many redirects” error. We haven’t made any changes to the domain settings (managed through Cloudflare). Any idea what could be causing this?

@heysandy801 Sharing exactly the same point of view about AI 🙌🏼

in the age of AI, it's easy to spend more hours doing more. to spend more dollars than ever before building the perfect product, eliminate all redundancy and waste, excel at ops and go faster than what 'fast' can ever mean. i'm using all the tools to do the opposite. automated ops so i spend fewer hours working. fire a prompt and let cursor rip so i can walk out. this was yesterday. 1 hour walking around the burbs enjoying the cold, the sun and letting my mind ruminate. maybe AI is taking us to the promised land after all. a world where we work less but produce more. a world where we can create enough without burning out. the effect it's had on my life - in the time i've gotten back - is profound. there's no longer an anxiety to do - only one to do my best when i'm at keyboard.

@heysandy801 Thanks a lot @heysandy801! Same here, I always look forward to yours too 😉

@fraxool that is an incredible picture! always look forward to your posts :)

I haven’t been very active on X these past few months… but behind the scenes, it’s been intense. • Rewrote 2 of my apps almost from scratch • Shipped major new features on my invoicing app • Still pushing toward BFS on my most popular app (WIP since July 2025) And in the middle of all that, I took a one-week break to Lapland, witnessed insane auroras, came back recharged and ready to ship again 💪🏼

France (and EU?) will require VAT number collection for B2B orders starting in Sept. 2026. Non-Shopify Plus merchants can’t add custom fields to checkout, which makes compliance difficult. Is Shopify planning a solution for this, and who’s the right team to discuss it with? I’m actively working on e-invoicing compliance in one of my apps. @liam_at_shopify @ShopifySupport

@AskQuerytel I’m an app developer building an EU-focused invoicing app. Most merchants are on the Shopify Standard plan, which doesn’t allow checkout customization (e.g. VAT fields), making it difficult to collect VAT IDs and company details for invoicing...

This is a real gap in Shopify. In practice, most setups rely on a mix of signals rather than a single flag, such as VAT ID presence, customer tags, company profiles, and, sometimes, checkout or app logic. It works, but edge cases show up fast, especially with mixed B2B/B2C customers. Curious, are you on Shopify Plus or standard?

Is there a reliable way to identify whether a Shopify order is B2B or B2C? Working on EU electronic invoicing, and this is surprisingly hard. With upcoming EU invoicing requirements, identifying B2B vs B2C will be mandatory... not sure what the best approach is on Shopify.

@RemcoE33 Yes, I think the only way for non Shopify plus merchants is to develop an app extension to add fields on the cart page to ask for VAT & company number…

@fraxool Yeah it is a real problem without the native B2B ( which you should not need for this ). You want to capture the company and VAT number.