@patrickbo11e

🇨🇦 Shopify app dev building https://xitter.cf/t.co/shsD598bO3 https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZoNp5kEtt5 and too many other bootstrapped software businesses

 Vancouver
bollenbach.ca
Joined April 2017
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in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Hong Kong for the next few weeks
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I've been working with customers on some incredible case studies for Recipe Kit. Here's a new one showing how powerful recipe content can be to drive traffic for Shopify stores, it's really amazing stuff.
Recipe Kit for Shopify@getrecipekitOct 16
185,000+ page views a year from old recipe content is a remarkable stat. Premier Catch gets more effortless traffic than most Shopify CPG/food brands by simply posting good recipes using their products. recipekit.com/blogs/case-stu…

Seafood Brand Case Study: Premier Catch on Shopify

How Premier Catch's 430-recipe seafood library keeps compounding without weekly publishing, a maintenance-mode playbook for seafood brands on Shopify.

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Shopify Sidekick now annoyingly displays front and centre for every single app, implying to merchants that it works with the app (despite it not doing that). So let's test it out on Shopify's own apps: Shopify Bundles App: "can you create a bundle for me"
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Shopify Flows/Workflows: "make a flow for me" ✅✅✅ finally one that works!
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Shopify Knowledge Base: "make a faq for my store" ❌❌❌
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Shopify Forms: "can you create a form for me" ❌❌❌
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More praise for @jessethanley 's new Postshiba product. AI setup is incredibly easy, I've just ported 3 apps over to it this morning. Cheaper than Postmark (used for the past 5 years) better interface, and reliability from my experience with Bento will likely be much better too
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this is so so bad from a ux perspective. it makes no sense. I've had so many confused merchants emailing me about this. i know this is the first step in a direction that Shopify is taking, and it will eventually iron out, but this transition period is awful for users + app devs
Axel Kee 🐐🇲🇾
@soulchildplsOct 14
I am tired 🫩 community.shopify.dev/t/upda…

Updating apps to work with Sidekick’s new placement

What changed Following the recent visual update to the Shopify admin, Sidekick now appears at the bottom center of every admin screen, including embedded apps. There is no API to hide or disable it....

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if i put this in my app I'd fail BFS
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I found 153,502 live clones of Shopify stores. This is a major issue that will continue getting worse and worse - and most Shopify stores have no idea what to do about it. bollenbach.ca/blog/cloned-sh…

I found 153,502 live clones of Shopify stores.

Enterprise brand protection costs $20,000+ a year. Most Shopify stores have nothing. Here's what I found, and what I built.

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Some examples: Stanley, the drinkware brand, has at least 16 live clones of their Shopify store online today, and 78 lookalike domains: recon.bot/report/fa3c021f6dd…
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My solution is Recon apps.shopify.com/recon-bot. It watches for clones of your Shopify store + brand domains, alerts you with screenshots/details, and then tells you exactly who to report them to - Google, Microsoft, the registrar, the host - with the emails already written.

Recon Brand & Clone Protection - Find and report fake stores using your brand and domains | Shopify...

Protect your Shopify brand from copycat stores. Recon finds copied storefronts, shows screenshot evidence and prepares reports to help you respond.

apps.shopify.com
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Do a free clone check for your store, no account needed: recon.bot/audit

Free Domain and Email Check for Shopify Stores | Recon

Free check of your store's domain: lookalike addresses registered on other endings, email authentication gaps and browser safety flags. No account needed.

recon.bot
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This week I tackled a problem I've had for a while: I've never had a good grasp of what exactly is going on across all my businesses. So I built a mindmap in my internal tool with ALL ongoing tasks/projects, all team members (and AI agents) with their responsible tasks, etc.
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These are all updated hourly through various connectors: - Github activity - Slack conversations - Claude Code sessions - Google Meet transcriptions Meaning all the stuff I do across any computer/app ends up in this company brain and mapped out visually so I can see it.
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For my ADHD brain this is such a relief. I've run these businesses for 6-7 years and have never had a good map of what is going on / where / when until now. Excited to keep iterating, but it's so cool to see a topdown glance at what exactly is going on with my projects.
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I have a ton of Hermes agents running cron jobs across different projects, and again I wanted to see these alongside what tasks my human employees are working on too.
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Talked to some amazing Shopify experts about all things recipe content marketing + my journey of 10+ years as a Shopify Partner on their podcast here: youtube.com/watch?v=PLACtwQS… @LeightonTaylor

Recipe Pages on Shopify: Some Stores Make $30K a Month

Some Shopify food, beverage, and CPG brands are making $20,000 to $...

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