Prakhar Shrivastava of FoxSell joins Karl and Taylor to talk about Shop Quest, the Shopify community event he and his team run in Bengaluru, and to prep Taylor for his first trip to India.

Along the way Prakhar breaks down India's Shopify ecosystem, from the app companies pulling serious revenue to the agencies quietly white-labeling builds for Platinum partners in the US and Europe, and makes the case for why the Shopify partner community needs its own events at all.

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FIND PRAKHAR ONLINE

LinkedIn - https://in.linkedin.com/in/prakhars96 X - https://x.com/PrakharS96 FoxSell - https://foxsell.com/ FoxSell Bundles Plus on the Shopify App Store - https://apps.shopify.com/foxsell-bundles-plus Book time with Prakhar - https://cal.com/prakhars96 Shop Quest - https://www.shop-quest.com/

TIMESTAMPS

Timestamps generated by AI show notes. These may shift slightly after final edit.

00:00 – Cold open: apologizing in advance for name pronunciation 00:25 – Karl sends Taylor on a quest, Prakhar joins 
06:51 – What FoxSell does and why complex bundles 
08:17 – The origin of Shop Quest: a 30 person dinner that kept growing 10:24 – From 150 attendees to 400, and why people started flying in 
19:24 – Visas, arrival, and getting picked up at the airport 
21:15 – Don't eat from the street, don't drink the tap water 
22:33 – There is no tipping culture in India 
25:26 – Haggling in street markets, and how badly you'll get quoted 27:14 – India's Shopify ecosystem: merchants, apps, and agencies 29:13 – The white-label agency work nobody talks about 
31:51 – Why the Shopify partner community is a lonely place to be 33:15 – Shop Quest format: fewer talks, more networking, more business content 
37:13 – Talks recorded in 4K, plus an MCP server for the event
41:15 – Name tags, phonetic spellings, and why Adi shortened his name 46:43 – Taylor's travel prep: lounges, overnight flights, and vaccinations 48:27 – Print your visa confirmation before you fly 
50:20 – Swym's office is across the street from the venue 
53:06 – South Indian food, and why Prakhar and Adi speak English to each other 
56:07 – Dev Changelog 
1:00:46 – Picks of the Week

DEV CHANGELOG

GitHub commits now name the last theme editor. No more generic bot message, you can see who changed what. https://shopify.dev/changelog/github-commits-now-name-the-last-theme-editor

Official PHP and Python packages for building apps, maintained by Shopify. https://shopify.dev/changelog/build-shopify-apps-in-php-and-python-with-new-official-packages

Four new Events topics: metaobjects, metafield definitions, metaobject definitions, and inventory transfers. Still unstable API, still in dev preview, feedback wanted. https://shopify.dev/changelog/four-additional-topics-are-now-available-for-events

⚠️ As of October 1, theme commands against password protected storefronts need CLI 3.84 or later. https://shopify.dev/changelog/password-protected-shop-dev-flows-on-shopify-theme-cli-v3-83-x-and-older-to-be-deprecated

More resilient refreshes for expiring offline access tokens. Shopify now keeps the old refresh token until your app starts using the replacement. https://shopify.dev/changelog/more-resilient-refreshes-for-expiring-offline-access-tokens

The Polaris CDN is adopting semantic versioning, which makes the unified web components much safer to build on. https://shopify.dev/changelog/the-polaris-cdn-is-adopting-semantic-versioning

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PICKS OF THE WEEK

Karl: A Diet Coke coaster, courtesy of his sister Heather. "I'd like a Diet Coke please." "Is Diet Pepsi okay?" "Is monopoly money okay?"

Karl: Umland's Crunchy Cheese - https://umlandscrunchycheese.com/ – A Carlock, Illinois company that vacuum-dries cheese below its melting point to make it light, airy, and crunchy. Karl has not tried it yet but picked it anyway.

Prakhar: DJI Osmo Pocket 3 - https://www.dji.com/osmo-pocket-3 – What he uses to record every event he attends, including Shop Quest.

Taylor: Omarchy - https://omarchy.org/ – DHH's opinionated Arch and Hyprland Linux distro. Taylor put it on a 2012 MacBook and brought the thing back to life, battery included, and it handles the Shopify CLI and agents fine.