As a solo Shopify app developer, my earnings now exceed my dreams, but this success wasn't immediate. Over 4 years, I offered comprehensive website development services on Fiverr, often receiving just $5 per task. I was featured as the "developer of the week" on CodeCanyon but

I’m currently using Crisp for in-app support. It works great for live chat and email. Curious if some of you use other tools focused on accurate AI replies in apps. How do merchants feel about AI responses? Accepted, or do they still ask for a human most of the time?

Shopify fully down? 500 errors everywhere...

I’ve noticed something strange with the app/uninstalled webhooks on my apps. Since yesterday, I’ve been receiving a lot of them but after checking, they’re all coming from very old Shopify stores, some of which have been inactive for years. Is anyone else seeing the same thing?

If you’re a Shopify app dev like me, now’s probably the perfect time to go for a run or do anything else. It’s pretty much the only moment you won’t get support tickets when your app has an embedded support chat 😬

Anyone else stuck in an infinite loop trying to access their Shopify admin? 🧐

Yes @Shopify (My spouse’s store)

David often reaches out personally to devs like me to help improve the platform for everyone. Not many other companies show this level of dedication to their partners. Congrats David, and thanks for everything you do.

Because of yesterday’s craziness my app went down, and I was terrified I’d get bad reviews… but instead I got four 5-star reviews 🤯 I usually get one per week max. People were so happy with how responsive I was during the downtime that they left great reviews 🥲

Tried to unproxy my domains so they wouldn’t go through Cloudflare, but it was impossible during the outage. Managed to do it on one small app, then hit an SSL issue… Tried issuing a Let’s Encrypt cert, but validation also went through Cloudflare so it failed 😅

Cloudflare seems back online now. Wow, that was stressful… 5 apps down at the same time. A real crisis to handle. Thankfully the merchants who reached out were super understanding. Hopefully no bad reviews for something that was totally beyond my control.

Cloudflare seems to be down. What’s weird is that everything is down on my iPhone (even when I try with a VPN), but not on my Mac using the same Wi-Fi network.

Very smart idea to track whether any slowness comes from my app or from Shopify 😅 Thanks for that, @alexbouchardd! After our call a few weeks ago, switching my webhooks to Hookdeck sounds even more appealing.

A year ago I redesigned 3 of my apps to get BFS, but since they weren’t built with React I had to rebuild every Polaris component in CSS by hand. Now I’m redesigning those apps again with Polaris Web Components: a lot less code, perfect integration = pure joy!

Lol... looks like this guy got really inspired by my app called Pxl 😅 (same icon, just different colors and one letter change in the title 🙃)

Moved this app to a serverless platform a year ago as a test. AWS downtimes are rare, but still: it was down for around 4 hours today. I’ll switch back to a regular server: I have less control with serverless, it costs more, and it still goes down. No advantages.

AWS us-east-1 seems to be down... one of my apps is completely offline... Thankfully it’s just a “small” one, but still… 😢