Samer
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Samer
@samerf81
Dir of Eng @ Shopify (Dev Platform, Flow). Prev VP Eng @ Zenreach, created BBM|Music|Video|Pictures apps at BlackBerry. Passionate about tech and motorsports.
Waterloo, Ontario Katılım Eylül 2012
243 Takip Edilen279 Takipçiler
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Shopify just mass-democratized something most people won't register for another 6 months.
$378 billion in GMV. 5.6 million stores. And they just gave every AI coding agent direct write access to the entire store backend: products, orders, inventory, SEO, images.
That screenshot is a solo merchant typing "Optimize all my products for SEO" and Claude updating 32 product listings, rewriting alt text, applying meta descriptions, and verifying every change. One prompt. No Fiverr freelancer. No $200/month app subscription. No agency retainer.
The old cost stack for a small Shopify store: $200-500/month in apps, $2,000+ for an SEO audit, $50/hour for a VA. That just collapsed into a terminal command.
4.8 million active merchants. Most run 10-200 SKUs and manage everything by clicking through the admin one product at a time. Claude Code plus MCP just gave every solo founder the operational capacity of a five-person team.
And Shopify isn't building the agent. They're building the protocol that makes every agent a Shopify agent. That's the platform play.
Shopify@Shopify
the Shopify AI Toolkit is here manage your store with your favorite agent Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and more
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Today my team launched Shopify’s AI Toolkit. Get Shopify AI superpowers with your favourite agent. Develop Shopify apps, manage your Shopify store, and more, all possible agentically. And we’re just getting started 🚀
Very proud of what the team has delivered so quickly!
Shopify@Shopify
the Shopify AI Toolkit is here manage your store with your favorite agent Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and more
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So proud of my team for shipping this! Powerful tools for devs to build epic Shopify apps easily.
Shopify Developers@ShopifyDevs
Your dev experience now has full MCP support Use the the Shopify Dev MCP server to set up, code, and validate your app Demo with @darius_gai
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Hey all!
Exciting news! The Next Gen Dev Platform which has been in Early Access for the last couple of months will become the default experience for all Shopify app development next month.
This will give everyone who builds apps:
• A completely re-engineered app dev experience that is faster and smoother
• Declarative metafields and metaobjects to easily store merchant data
•Dev stores that mimic real merchant plans, including Plus
•A beautiful new developer dashboard
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We’ve rebooted our UI toolkit to be Web Components based. A unified library across all our surfaces, with consistent APIs and dev experience. No longer based/dependent on React, works with any framework (or none at all!). We’ve also shipped an MCP server for your AI tools. 🚀
Shopify Developers@ShopifyDevs
Polaris is now a unified UI Library 📚 Lighter. Faster. Compatible with any framework and all Shopify surfaces.
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AppBridge direct admin access (API) seems to have reverted or bugging out and is stuck on version "2024-01".
@liam_at_shopify @ShopifyDevs @jzazove @_developit
Anyone able to help out?
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I’m excited to share that @Shopify has acquired @CheckoutBlocks!
From day one, our goal was to help as many Shopify merchants as possible to customize their checkouts. This acquisition allows us to succeed on an even bigger scale. What does this mean for Checkout Blocks? Only good changes ahead! As of today, we are making the Starter plan free (currently $99/mo) for all merchants on Shopify Plus. Tune into editions.dev to learn more about what I’ll be up to at Shopify!
Special thanks to everyone who supported me over the years and to the 850+ amazing Shopify Plus merchants who trusted us with customizing your checkout. We’re only just getting started!
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See you in Toronto! Let’s go!!
Harley Finkelstein@harleyf
Community is everything. Our @Shopify ecosystem is unlike any other. On June 25th, we’re bringing the Shopify ecosystem together IRL for a first-of-its-kind event. @tobi and I will be there, and if you’re a developer working on Shopify, you should be too. Grab your tickets now: Editions.dev
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Checkout what my team shipped today!
This is one of the many things we shipped. We’re continuing to make Flow powerful for merchants and developers!
Shopify Developers@ShopifyDevs
Flow is getting more developer-friendly Write JavaScript code in the Run code action to add logic, summarize data, calculate dates, and more.
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What an epic BFCM for our merchants! Proud of the team to have delivered this. Last year we didn’t really run Shopify Functions in BFCM. This year we ran 1.6B and without a single hitch! Congrats team! NBD ;)
Shopify Engineering@ShopifyEng
We’re not in this alone! 🤝 Over the weekend, we handled a whopping 1.6 billion Shopify Function calls with 99.999+% success rate to support apps in the @ShopifyDevs ecosystem. Together, we’re empowering thousands of businesses to thrive!
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💡 Did y’all notice that Shopify Functions now support 'shopify app dev' if you are using simplified deployments? There’s a file watcher which will automatically compile and push drafts of your function changes. No need to deploy every time any more.
#test-a-function-using-simplified-deployment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">shopify.dev/docs/apps/func…
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This is a sleeper and a big^tm deal. Out with the convoluted iframe shenanigans, in with web components... Docs: shopify.dev/docs/api/app-b…
@_developit and co did amazing work here.
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The first stage of my team's 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 undertaking just went live on Shopify:
You can now build UI Extensions for Shopify Admin that show up in-context around the interface.
editions-summer-2023.shopify.com/editions/summe…
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We are embracing the web platform as Shopify’s platform, making building Shopify apps incredibly easy and intuitive. Build apps with Remix and our new evolution of AppBridge that my teams shipped today.
shopify.engineering/shopifys-platf…
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Shopify Flow is used by thousands of merchants and today we’re making it even easier for developers to leverage the platform. Build Actions and Triggers via the CLI now AND define return data from Flow steps now! Proud of my team for shipping this today!
#defining-a-return-type-schema" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">shopify.dev/docs/apps/flow…
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We’ve been hard at work making Shopify Functions even more powerful and capable! Check out my team’s latest additions we just shipped at Editions
shopify.com/editions/summe…
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My team has been working on this for a while, and excited to share today the ability to deeply integrate UI experiences directly into the Shopify Admin via UI Extensions. It is quick and easy to build and feels native with the Admin.
shopify.com/editions/summe…
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