I'm getting tired of Shopify's broken review system. I launched a new app. It's very niche, with only two competitors, and mine is free for the time being. A merchant left a review after not having used my app. They don't reply to emails, and the phone number listed on their website is fake and associated with a random person who doesn't even know their number is listed there. Two minutes... How is someone even eligible to leave a review or rating after two minutes? @tobi @harleyf @liam_at_shopify can we please get some good news here? Various issues (fake 5-star reviews, reviews not related to the app, competition buying fake 1-star reviews) have been mentioned a lot over the past few weeks, and I still don't see any official statement from Shopify. I think many app developers are more than willing to jump on a call and share their experience and ideas on how to improve the system.

So far this has worked every time I tried. Merchant doesn't reply to any email / ignores me. So I start searching for their phone number, (had to buy a phone app this time because they blocked international numbers 😂) and got the merchant on the phone. I can just hear how surprised they are. On the phone they are super polite and kind. Explained the situation again and they updated their review. Confirmed our conversation via email and surprise surprise, this time they replied.

Meanwhile, I just received a review about Shopify billing. Billing issues should not go straight to published app reviews, imo. They should first become a support ticket with the app developer and Shopify Support, where the issue can actually be checked and resolved. Reviews should be about the app experience, not platform billing confusion.

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Developers in 2026

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Shopify is seeing 200 new apps a week. Meanwhile, I’m seeing a rise in vibe coders who basically install my apps just to try to copy them all (unless there’s a paywall, they’re too cheap to pay to copy). I’m really hoping @ShopifyDevs will start rejecting all these clones.

Building connector apps for Shopify is a pain these days. I’m still waiting, and the overall process has now taken over 4 months. 📝 1. Shopify requires a signed document from the end party. So if your app forwards info to, let’s say, HubSpot, you need to get them to sign a document. Depending on the size of the organization, this alone can already take weeks or months. And if they decide not to sign the document, your app will not be reviewed. To put that into perspective: if Zapier launched their app on the App Store today, they would need signatures from 9,000 companies. 💼 2. You (the Shopify partner) also need to sign an addendum. Here are just a few things you need to do / comply with according to the addendum: - On a semi-annual basis, the partner must provide Shopify with a report. - The partner must maintain consistently applied, accurate, and complete books, records, and other documents. - Shopify has the right at any time to perform an audit itself or appoint an independent auditor. In my case, the app review has been completed and the app has been “approved,” and the addendum was signed as well, but the app is still not on the App Store because Shopify still has to review the signed addendum, which I’ve also been waiting on for almost a month.

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.

Bought a 3D printer a week ago to play around with. Used Claude to build a little app to monitor my prints and access the camera feed 😄

Just a friendly Shopify merchant reaching out... ChatGPT said it didn’t work, and of course ChatGPT is always right 😅 I’m noticing more and more misinformation coming from AI models, and there’s no real way to correct it…

Ok check this out 😎 I've added multi-step support. In this video I ask how to add a bevel in Blender and it will guide me step by step instead of having to ask it in between each action.

Great initiative! Although I still think we’re going to have a rough few years, with a lot of security incidents and crazy exploits.

Love this idea! The website is flagged as unsafe, with no privacy statement, so I have no idea where my data goes. It also takes screenshots of your screen, so I asked Claude to build something similar, it took maybe 10 minutes lol. Works pretty well! In the video, I ask it where I can view my profile, for example.

Didn't see that one coming. Shopify opens up a lot more B2B features to all Shopify plans instead of having it restricted to their Plus plan.

Just got called by an AI bot trying to scam me, so I spent ten minutes wasting its tokens going back and forth trying to get it to tell me a cookie recipe 😂

At the @ShopifyDevs Partner Town Hall, a question that was raised was how they are going to deal with AI-generated apps and copycats/duplicate apps. Shopify says they are aware of the issue and are talking about it every day, but no solution is in sight yet. I hope they find a solution soon 🤞