Issue 203 - From Side Hustle to Full-Time: My first 5 years building Shopify Apps

From Side Hustle to Full-Time: My first 5 years building Shopify Apps

Back in 2020, I published my first Shopify app. My goal was simple: generate some side income to fund my future son’s college bills. I’ve already written about that.. 5 years later, I’m now working full time on my apps.

By Dylan Pierce

Raycast Extension to Search Shopify Developer Docs

We use Shopify’s GraphQL API a lot in our apps, and I often need to pull up a specific documentation page quickly. While Shopify’s MCP server can answer some questions, it’s slower and doesn’t always show the full context

By Daniel Beck

We’ve collected 1200 Shopify app reviews

We’ve collected 1200 Shopify app reviews in the back end of AppStoreResearch - access to these in depth reviews were a paid feature. But we just opened it up for all researcher account. If you’re a Shopify app developer, create a free account to explore these reviews.

By Jon Kennedy

Customers can NOW update their email in customer accounts

NEW shopify customer account feature customers can NOW update their email in customer accounts without needing to contact merchant support !! this will cut TONS of unnecessary customer and merchant back and forth details

By Patrick Millegan

CLI now supports managing multiple environments for themes

ICYMI!! Shopify CLI now supports managing multiple environments for themes. Nice quality of life win for devs working across multiple shops at the same time.

By Ben Sehl

Shopify Canonical URL Guide: How to Fix Duplicate Content and Improve SEO

Learn how Shopify canonical URLs fix duplicate content, protect rankings, and the quick checks you can run to ensure your store is set up correctly.

By Jeff Edmondson

Shopify Retail Markets is here

Shopify Retail Markets is here. And it's massive. We started discussing this with Shopify 18 months ago, and now it's live. The game-changer? Location-specific catalogs with different pricing per retail location.

By Rocco Ghrenassia

I created a demo to let you see how AI will return results from your Shopify store

I created a demo to let you see how AI will return results from your Shopify store. It works with the Storefront MCP server - which is Shopify's tool for AI agents to interact with your products, policies, and cart.

By Filippos Dematis