Ohad

No team. No VAs. Multiple clients at professional rates. The math doesn't work without systems. Solo consulting at a real price point produces more operational work than one person can cover by hand. Research, scheduling, intake, content, follow-ups. Every task that isn't the actual client work competes for the same hours. At some point you hire or you automate. I automated. Shopify Ads analysis for a client used to eat a few hours a week. Pulling the data, formatting it, finding the patterns worth flagging. I built an AI agent that handles the pull-and-analyze layer. Now I spend about half an hour reviewing what it surfaces and adding the judgment calls it can't make. Same work going out the door. A fraction of the time going in. Do that across research, content production, intake screening, and you get whole days back. Claude Code, NanoClaw, and n8n run the operational layer in the background. The admin work that used to chew the edges off every day mostly handles itself. What I didn't automate matters more. The diagnostic call. The listing audit. The positioning sprint. And the harder one: product problem or messaging problem. Those still need me in the room. The test before I build anything: would this still run if I disappeared for two weeks? If yes, it stays automated. If no, I either keep fixing the system until it can, or I admit the task is mine and stop pretending I'm going to "set it and forget it." The middle ground is where solo operators burn out. Just enough automation to feel productive, not enough to actually buy back time. The model works. It works because I keep choosing what stays mine.

@uvkewate It's all about the DIST!

1,000 new Shopify apps in 10 days. Most of them will be invisible within a month. Not because the product is bad. Because the founders behind them think "ship it and they will come." After speaking to hundreds of Shopify app founders, the pattern is painfully clear: The ones who win don't have the best code. They have the best distribution. They own a niche. They build trust with merchants. They show up where decisions are made. The app store isn't the bottleneck. Attention is.

@DavisPaipa What you need to do is shout this off every rooftop.

If you think the Shopify app game is easy, it's not. A month ago we launched Libautech AI Post Purchase Upsell app. Claude runs it end-to-end. Changes the discounts. Swaps the products. Optimizes the upsell flow automatically. The merchant does nothing. Free for early users. We even cover the AI credits. Month one results: 42 installs 4 merchants set it up Best performer: 50% upsell acceptance rate Worst performer: 0% 50% acceptance outperforms every post purchase app on the App Store. The thesis works. Claude can autonomously run an Shopify upsell business and lift AOV without merchant input. Now I need more Shopify merchants to prove it at scale. If you own a Shopify store, install it and DM me. I'll help you set it up personally. apps.shopify.com/post_purchase_…

Shopify Ads analysis used to eat a few hours a week per client. I built an agent that handles the pull-and-analyze layer. Now I spend about half an hour reviewing what it surfaces and adding the judgment calls it can't make. Same work out the door. A fraction of the time in.

Your CLAUDE.md is a system prompt, not documentation. Every line ships with every prompt. Long context degrades attention, even inside the window. I cut 720 lines by turning CLAUDE.md into a router: task → which file to load. Default load: nothing.

@TheAwesomeTuvia you get what you pay for 😭

Nooooo 😭😭😭 Ten minutes after using the app, a free app I built, they disappeared. They didn’t reach out. No message. Nothing. Now they won’t answer. A FREE APP 😭😭😭

@Krishna_agg_ @ShopifyDevs congrats!

😭😭😭 Finally Happened My app has been approved in Shopify Store. apps.shopify.com/avonix-tariffs… Thank you so much @ShopifyDevs I’ve been using Shopify since the age of 15 years. Today I’m 21 and I’ve done it released my first app on the Shopify App Store. I know I know knows the hard part start.

@MalMposha a little bit of both.

For the stuff that stays yours would you say you are not automating it 100% because you want to keep doing it (it’s something you actually like to do) or it’s one of those things that just NEEDS your judgement? Was just thinking for the intake call things I also don’t automated that piece but I certainly automate parts of it. The transcript from the call is a gold mine for my agent who’s already done work with other similar customers

No team. No VAs. Multiple clients at professional rates. The math doesn't work without systems. Solo consulting at a real price point produces more operational work than one person can cover by hand. Research, scheduling, intake, content, follow-ups. Every task that isn't the actual client work competes for the same hours. At some point you hire or you automate. I automated. Shopify Ads analysis for a client used to eat a few hours a week. Pulling the data, formatting it, finding the patterns worth flagging. I built an AI agent that handles the pull-and-analyze layer. Now I spend about half an hour reviewing what it surfaces and adding the judgment calls it can't make. Same work going out the door. A fraction of the time going in. Do that across research, content production, intake screening, and you get whole days back. Claude Code, NanoClaw, and n8n run the operational layer in the background. The admin work that used to chew the edges off every day mostly handles itself. What I didn't automate matters more. The diagnostic call. The listing audit. The positioning sprint. And the harder one: product problem or messaging problem. Those still need me in the room. The test before I build anything: would this still run if I disappeared for two weeks? If yes, it stays automated. If no, I either keep fixing the system until it can, or I admit the task is mine and stop pretending I'm going to "set it and forget it." The middle ground is where solo operators burn out. Just enough automation to feel productive, not enough to actually buy back time. The model works. It works because I keep choosing what stays mine.

@uvkewate you don't wait, you HELP the app store send you traffic. And you do it by creating content, community, etc. You also run ads and partnerships. But it all funnels down to the app store. Unless you're super niche or high-ticket af.

After 700+ conversations with Shopify app founders, the pattern is clear. The ones who make it past Year 2 all have one thing in common: They stopped waiting for the App Store to send them traffic. They built their own distribution. Podcast, newsletter, community, content. The App Store is a channel. Not a strategy.

@DarianBia1 @matthewsmith Good effort mate!

With Shopify reviews being a hot topic right now, I've got some good news! Checkout Plus just passed 100 reviews at a 5 star rating! And I can confidently say that everyone of these reviews are genuine and hard earned! While some do come from shameless support conversations, I can still say I am proud to have hit this milestone!

@GoranCulibrk lol

@ohad Thanks Ohad, glad you liked it. Ranksy holds so much data that the only thing I miss is time to go through all of it.

607 apps launched on the Shopify App Store in the last 7 days. 5 are already delisted. In March it was ~130 a week. It hit 900 the first week of May. The flood isn't slowing down. Let's go through what actually shipped.

@leteyski this summary is 🔥

@DsMatie That's why it's so important to go offline: 1. Spend some time outdoors 2. Focus on priorities 3. Work out 4. Sleep well

I feel the same. And honestly, I think it happens every time something powerful gets released. We think we’re going to work less because we can move faster. But in reality, we just produce more. And it becomes addictive. It’s like a casino now. You press a button, you get the reward instantly, so you just keep pressing.

@malisauskasLT Sounds awesome

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?

@DsMatie I only heard people raving about your event. Great job! Hope I can attend next year.

The Wide Event yesterday was incredible 💚 250 people in Paris from all around the world for one evening is special! I'm exhausted 😴 From the feedback I had, people loved the event! Thanks to the speakers and the sponsors 🙏 Thank you all for coming! It means a lot 🙏

@zeeshanraza congrats!

All 3 of our Shopify apps got approved last week, its been so long I almost lost the excitement and got busy with other projects We’re also going after some giant categories Bookings Digital Downloads and Analytics

the scales have been tipped.