Patrick Bollenbach

@faridmovsumov I hope you are right!!

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...

@tokifyi @chatbase @yasser_elsaid_ @postbridge_ @jackfriks @usecollabstr @dulay604 @obsdmd @kepano @indexsy @yacineMTB 🫡

canadian bootstrap founders, i’m putting together a list of cool canadian bootstrap founders/products i know @chatbase by @yasser_elsaid_ , @postbridge_ by @jackfriks , @usecollabstr by @dulay604, @obsdmd by @kepano, @indexsy, and @yacineMTB stuff are popular ones any other canadian bootstrap companies/founders i should know about?

@tokifyi use @lunchmoney_app !!! Canadian made by @lunchbag :)

claude build me a monarch alternative, make no mistakes

Canadian Shopify Partners: do you get paid out into a USD account or CAD?

@KeiraArts @ShopifyDevs If they reply haha! Nothing yet :)

@patrickbo11e @ShopifyDevs Nice, Shopify listens!

The past few weeks I've submitted more Shopify Partner violations than I have in my last 10 years in the ecosystem. The floodgates have opened. @ShopifyDevs

@ShopifyDevs this is just funny to me

@ShopifyDevs (Haven't received a reply to any of them yet) Still sitting wondering about this app using my (tm pending) app name in their title: x.com/patrickbo11e/s… I reached out to them and they said Shopify said it was okay: "In this case, Shopify approved the use of this wording"

@ShopifyDevs Maybe I'll start spamming app names in app titles if this is okay. I didn't even realize that they are using the exact same words as my app title, just moved around 😂

@leteyski Great stuff, need more of this in the app ecosystem

@KosdiMarton @heymantle I really don’t like that the search now opens a pseudo-chat - I just want a type-ahead search input!

when did @heymantle become so slow? It takes like 10 seconds to search for a customer. I love Mantle but we don't need this many features - just the important ones to work as we need.

@malisauskasLT @JesseSchoberg 👀😂

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? 🤣

@Railway Was just about to move all my services and apps from Render to Railway today 🥲

Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable. We have escalated this directly with Google. The Railway Platform team has since confirmed access to Google Cloud and is working on restoring access to all workloads. We have access to some of our Google Cloud–hosted infrastructure and are working to restore the rest of the service. We apologize for the disruption.

@malisauskasLT Considering the URGENT email Shopify sends me saying I will get delisted for a small bug fix / UX requirement from random app store reviews, this is such a silly slap on the hand

Update - all of their apps got delisted right after my post. Less than 48 hours after they're all back on App Store with the banner removed. All of their reviews and Built for Shopify badges are still there though 🤷🏻‍♂️ Just like I said in my initial post, scamming now gets you a huge possible upside, while the only downside is a temporary delisting. From new developer's perspective it just make sense taking such risk. And it's a huge headache for Shopify with no easy solution. Thousands of Shopify merchants are already using these apps on their stores, so Shopify can't just get rid of them because it would impact all these merchants as well. No communication from Shopify yet but I hope they're trying to find a solution for this because it's clearly a pattern everyone sees 😔

@Peterhallanderr @hernan_demczuk ?????

@hernan_demczuk @patrickbo11e Prefetch helps with exactly this. Uses Speculation Rules API to preload links pre-tap + built-in CWV scanner that pinpoints the LCP culprits hurting Built for Shopify scores. apps.shopify.com/prefetch

Today's edition of AI slop Shopify apps copying Recipe Kit, I present Alchemy Recipes. I genuinely don't know how these pass the review process, the app is almost unusable. It even has a dev note for changing .env server variables on the Settings page lol.

@yeramianm The problem is if this only happened because a big app dev with reach made a popular post versus the seemingly dozens of violations all over X this week that don’t seem to be having any repercussions. Still better than nothing

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

@DrewVento sounds like someone who stays in all the same gentrified parts of cities all around the world 😂

After like 20 countries it’s all the same. Each new city is the same experience as the last new city. The newness of slightly different food, people, entertainment, are all slightly different in a way that’s familiar, in a way that that the difference is the same. The experience of being somewhere new is no longer new. There is no point in going to 40+ counties. You won’t remeber 25 of them and all you get out of it is a line for your dating app profile.

@malisauskasLT Now Shopify is going to report they are having a backlog of partner violation forms requested 😂

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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@lkr The worst is when there is no bedside lamp… like has anyone actually lived in these places!?!

We're traveling for about 8 months, usually staying in a new Airbnb every week. Two things that are shockingly common: Some or all of the bedrooms have no light blocking. The bright sunlight just comes in once the sun rises. Two, nowhere to put a towel. Like not a single hook, rack etc in the entire bathroom.

This is why this new influx of apps is going to bring down the quality/bar of the whole ecosystem. When merchants can no longer trust that an app: A) works and B) reviews are actually legit… they rightfully should start looking elsewhere.