Issue 231 - I Built A Fully Autonomous Shopify Store with AI

I Built a Fully Autonomous Shopify Store with AI

I built a fully autonomous Shopify store that finds memes and inside jokes from online communities, generates print-on-demand designs using AI, and uploads them as real products — all without me lifting a finger.

By Will Misback

Is The Global Catalog API The 'alpha'?

So much upside building consumer apps atop Shopify's global catalog API now. In 6 months, everyone will realize the alpha was hiding in plain sight. + the MCP endpoint works seamlessly with UCP.

By Gil Greenburg

Using Liquid in Shopify Flow: Complete Guide with Examples

While Flow’s visual builder handles basic tasks, Liquid lets you access nested data, perform calculations, build complex conditional logic, and create dynamic content—all without leaving Flow’s interface.

By Ryan ODonnell

Shopify AI Toolkit

The Shopify AI Toolkit connects your AI tools to the Shopify platform. With the Toolkit, you can build apps using Shopify's documentation, API schemas, and code validation, and manage your Shopify store through the CLI's store execute capabilities

By Shopify

Product Page Agentic Commerce Audit

Shopify has a utility that scans your store AI readiness. Even checks for llms.txt (which will make SEO nerds on youtube angry.) How does your shop rank?

By Shopify

Flow generation through natural language

We reverse-engineered training data from thousands of merchant-created automations and fine-tuned Qwen3-32B into a tool-calling agent for Shopify Flow. Results: 2.2x faster, 68% cheaper

By Shopify

App block deep links can't target nested blocks - Extensions

App blocks in Shopify theme extensions can't be properly inserted with deep links since the introduction of Horizon-based themes. I see over and over how merchants accidentally installing block to the wrong place without realizing it.

By Kirill Platonov

We rebuilt Shopify’s app submission system

Over the past few months, we’ve seen more Shopify App Store submissions than ever before. Our system wasn’t designed to handle that scale and reviews slowed down. We rebuilt the submission pipeline to fix this. The changes go live today, and they're designed to help you catch issues earlier, get clearer feedback, and move through review faster.

By Jonathan Zazove