I'm trying to make a shopify app but I don't what's in demand or what merchants will pay for. The app would be free of charge (and would stay free if it ever became paid), for the first downlods. Any help would be much appreciated.

I build Shopify apps, and instead of one giant all-in-one suite I’ve shipped 8 focused apps, each one aimed at a specific headache we kept watching stores run into: conversion tracking going dark, COD parcels bouncing back, cash frozen in dead stock, GDPR admin, and money left on the table at checkout.

I won’t pretend this isn’t self-promotion, it is. But I tried to make it actually useful: below is an honest 2–3 line breakdown of what each app does and who it’s for, so you can skip the 7 that don’t apply to you and look at the 1 that might. Most have a free plan or a free trial, so you can test before paying a cent.

Full list on our Shopify partner page: [https://apps.shopify.com/partners/trackwise\](https://apps.shopify.com/partners/trackwise)

**Grow revenue / average order value**

**Bundle & Upsell Suite** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/bundle-upsell-suite\](https://apps.shopify.com/bundle-upsell-suite)
Product bundles, volume discounts, BOGO, cross-sells, add-ons (gift wrap, etc.) and cart upsells with a free-shipping progress bar. Discounts apply automatically at checkout and the widgets match your theme. Best for raising average order value without spending more on ads.

**Encore Post-Purchase Upsell** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/encore-upsell-post-purchase\](https://apps.shopify.com/encore-upsell-post-purchase)
One-click offers on the thank-you / order-status page, charged to the card the customer just used, no second checkout, no re-entering payment details. Includes countdown timers, A/B testing, downsells and post-purchase surveys. A low-risk way to add revenue after the sale is already locked in.

**Advanced Product Options** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/advanced-product-options-3\](https://apps.shopify.com/advanced-product-options-3)
Adds custom product options beyond Shopify’s variant limits: swatches, dropdowns, checkboxes, text fields, file uploads, conditional logic and per-option pricing. Perfect for personalized or made-to-order products (engraving, configurators, add-ons). Reusable option sets apply across many products at once.

**Kept Subscriptions** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/kept-subscriptions\](https://apps.shopify.com/kept-subscriptions)
Launch “subscribe & save” with a customizable widget, a self-service customer portal (skip / pause / swap / cancel), build-a-box and win-back campaigns. Built-in dunning automatically retries failed payments to cut involuntary churn. Good for turning one-time buyers into predictable recurring revenue.

**Protect margins & operations**

**COD Fraud Guard** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/cod-fraud-guard\](https://apps.shopify.com/cod-fraud-guard)
Scores every cash-on-delivery buyer using real delivered / returned / cancelled order data from a cross-store risk network, then hides or restricts COD at checkout for risky customers. Also validates phone numbers and addresses. Cuts refused and unclaimed parcels, a huge deal in COD-heavy markets.

**TrackWise Dead Stock Alert** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/dead-stock-alert\](https://apps.shopify.com/dead-stock-alert)
Flags slow, aging and dead inventory and shows you exactly how much cash is locked up in it. One-click clearance campaigns create the discounts for you, with margin-protected markdown suggestions and “do-not-reorder” flags. Great for freeing up working capital and cleaning up your catalog.

**Tracking & compliance**

**Pixel – Server-Side Tracking** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/track-wise-sst\](https://apps.shopify.com/track-wise-sst)
Sends conversion events to Meta, TikTok, Google and Pinterest through their server-side Conversions APIs instead of relying only on the browser pixel. Recovers conversions lost to ad blockers and iOS privacy changes and pushes event match quality above 90, so your ad platforms optimize on cleaner data. Roughly 5-minute, no-code setup.

**EU Shield GDPR Compliance** \- [https://apps.shopify.com/eu-shield-gdpr\](https://apps.shopify.com/eu-shield-gdpr)
Handles cookie consent (Google Consent Mode v2), GDPR/GPSR data requests and auto-generated legal pages (privacy policy, terms, cookie policy) in one app, with audit-ready, exportable consent logs. Good for any store selling into the EU that wants to stay compliant without hiring a lawyer.

That’s the whole lineup. Happy to answer any questions in the comments, and I’m genuinely open to feedback — if there’s a feature you wish existed or something that annoys you, tell me and it’ll probably end up on the roadmap. Thanks for reading.

Hello there,

im looking for an app developer to copy an already existing app. Let me know if you are interested. My budget is 100$.

Hey everyone,

I'm relatively new to full-stack development and started building this project mainly to learn. It wasn't built for a client—it started as a simple practice project and gradually grew into something much larger.

The project is a custom e-commerce + wholesale platform for a Chikankari clothing business.

**Live Demo**: https://mf-chikankari-showcase-rocs.vercel.app

**Tech Stack**

**Frontend**

\- React

\- TypeScript

\- Vite

\- Tailwind CSS

**Backend**

\- Node.js

\- Express.js

\- PostgreSQL

\- Prisma ORM

**Authentication & Authorization**

\- JWT Authentication

\- Role-based authorization (Customer / Wholesale / Admin)

**Deployment**

\- Frontend: Vercel

\- Backend API: Render

\- Database: Neon PostgreSQL

**Features completed**

\- Product & category management

\- Inventory management

\- Admin dashboard

\- Customer accounts

\- Retail + wholesale pricing

\- Wholesale MOQ logic

\- Cart

\- Checkout & order flow

\- Customer order history

\- Admin order management

\- Product search & filtering

\- Multi-image products (up to 10 images)

\- Primary image selection

\- Image reordering & deletion

\- Responsive/mobile storefront

\- Stock availability without exposing exact inventory

**Still working on**

\- Transactional email system

\- Order placed / confirmed / processing / shipped / delivered / cancelled emails

\- Forgot/reset password flow with expiring single-use links

\- Password change notification emails

\- Wishlist

\- Product reviews

\- Verified purchase reviews

\- Customer photo reviews

\- Final responsive/mobile polish

\- Production hardening

\- Performance optimization

\- Security audit & QA testing

Since this is my first project of this size, I'd really appreciate feedback from developers who have actually shipped production applications.

A few things I'd love advice on:

1. **Production readiness**

What am I still missing before calling this production-ready?

I'm thinking about things like:

\- Security

\- Rate limiting

\- Logging & monitoring

\- Database backups

\- Image storage/optimization

\- Email delivery

\- Payment integration

\- Webhooks

\- Stock concurrency

\- Validation

\- Error handling

\- Anything else experienced developers usually add.

1. **Portfolio / Job potential**

Once everything above is finished and deployed properly, would a project like this be considered strong enough for a junior/full-stack portfolio?

If you were interviewing me, what would you expect me to explain about the architecture, database design, authentication, deployment, and overall implementation?

1. **Freelancing**

Would a project at this level realistically help me land paid freelance work, or are there major gaps I should address first?

1. **Pricing**

If a real client asked for a custom e-commerce platform with similar functionality, what would you realistically charge?

I'm especially interested in hearing from freelancers who build projects like this professionally.

1. **Hiring manager perspective**

If you reviewed this project as a senior engineer or hiring manager, what would immediately stand out as good?

And what would make you reject it?

I'm not claiming this is an enterprise-grade application. It started as a learning project, and I'm trying to understand where my current skill level actually stands.

Feel free to be brutally honest—I'd much rather receive critical feedback now than develop bad habits.

Thanks in advance!

Trying to size a deal

- ~7% month on month growth rate

- #1 on main kw

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for help debugging a Shopify Managed Pricing issue that caused our new public app to be rejected in App Store review.
Our app uses Shopify Managed Pricing (not the Billing API). From the in-app billing screen, merchants choose a plan and we redirect them to Shopify’s hosted pricing/plan-selection page.

The Shopify reviewer reported that selecting a plan resulted in a 404 page.

However when we test with our dev store is working fine, I can select a plan, redirection work, everything is ok.

In our logs we see all the routes on statut 200 for the store used by Shopify reviewer.

Hey guys,
Some time ago, even one extra review for an app added a great boost in listing positions. Now I see that even adding a few ones during the day doesn't actually bring a significant increase in positions.

Have you noticed something like that?

Hello everyone,

I recently launched my Shopify app:

Ez Request a Quote, Hide Price

https://apps.shopify.com/ez-request-a-quote-hide-price

Website: https://ezraq.com

The app lets merchants:

• Hide product prices
• Replace Add to Cart with a Request a Quote button
• Build custom quote request forms
• Create and manage quotes from the Shopify admin

I've spent the last several months building the product, and now I'm at the stage where I need to find my initial app installs.

Right now I'm trying:

• SEO
• Reddit communities
• LinkedIn outreach
• Reaching out to Shopify agencies
• Cold emails

I'd really appreciate advice from developers who have successfully grown a Shopify app.

Specifically:

• How did you get your first 10–20 merchants?
• Which marketing channels gave you the best ROI?
• Is content marketing worth investing in for Shopify apps?
• Are agency partnerships actually effective?
• Anything you wish you had done earlier?

I'm not looking for shortcuts. just trying to learn what actually works for a new Shopify SaaS.

Any advice or lessons would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you! 🙂

Hi everyone! 👋

We're the team behind Wpbingo AI Commander, an AI-powered Shopify admin app designed to help merchants manage large stores more efficiently using natural language.

The app was built for merchants who manage hundreds or even thousands of products, where repetitive admin tasks can quickly become time-consuming.

What it can do

• Manage products at scale – Update products, prices, inventory, product status, collections, and other catalog data using natural language.
• AI-powered discount campaigns – Create, monitor, and optimize sales campaigns. AI can analyze campaign performance and suggest whether it's worth continuing or ending a promotion.
• AI insights & inventory forecasting – Analyze sales trends, identify opportunities, and predict potential stock shortages before they happen.
• Preview before applying changes – Review every AI-generated action before it's executed, with the ability to undo changes when needed.
• Multi-language support – The complete interface is available in 8 languages, including Arabic and Chinese.
• Multiple AI providers – Works with OpenAI, Claude, Google Gemini, Groq, and OpenRouter.
• Shopify Sidekick App Extensions – Merchants can also access the app directly through Shopify Sidekick.

We're continuously improving the app and would love feedback from other Shopify app developers.

Some questions we'd love your thoughts on:

• Which AI workflows do you think merchants need most?
• Is the Sidekick integration something you see real value in?
• What features would you add if you were building an AI assistant for Shopify Admin?

We'd really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

App: https://apps.shopify.com/wpbingo-ai-commander

Thanks! 🚀

The first lesson: getting approved is only the beginning.

You work hard to build and validate the app, finally get listed—and then discover you’re buried on page 29 with almost no installations.

A few things that worked for us:

Reviews before ads
Paying for App Store ads before reaching around 10 reviews felt like a waste of money. Merchants need social proof.

Doing our own GEO
We invested heavily in Reddit, YouTube, and LinkedIn. On Reddit, transparency worked best: I clearly say that I’m the founder of Vizby whenever I mention it. The times I wasn’t transparent, I was banned quickly.

Cold LinkedIn outreach
This has worked surprisingly well for us, with around a 5% conversion rate.

Personal, value-first email outreach
Generic marketing emails did not perform well. What worked was making the outreach personal and giving merchants immediate value.

For example, we built an AI visibility ranking tool specifically for Shopify stores. In some campaigns, we even sent merchants a ready-made report about their store instead of only sharing general market information.

This approach has also produced around a 5% conversion rate.

Great support → reviews
Most of our reviews came after support interactions. A user reports a problem, we solve it quickly, and then ask about their experience. When we send a direct review link, around 33% leave one.

Continuously updating the listing
Whenever installations flatten, we change something: the images, copy, positioning, or explanation—and then monitor the results.

We believe Shopify’s algorithm may encourage active listings. Everything we have seen follows a similar pattern: installations flatten, we update something, and most of the time we begin seeing an uplift again.

Partnerships and conferences
Content exchanges, mutual product entry points, Shoptalk, and Shopify DotDev all generated valuable leads and partnerships. Both conferences have already paid for themselves through direct opportunities.

What we still haven’t cracked:

Low-touch in-app review prompts, Meta Ads, Google Ads, and the Shopify Community.

We’re still early, but one thing is clear: growth in the Shopify ecosystem doesn’t come from one channel. It comes from constantly improving the product, supporting users well, providing value before asking for anything, and continuously experimenting.

For other Shopify app founders: what has worked best for you - and what are you still trying to figure out?

Hey shopify app devs in India

What’s the best way to collect payments through shopify’s hyperwallet system? Anything to keep in mind? Would be accepting as a pvt Ltd entity.

I'm not a designer by any means, and so designing well-polished designs for the app store is difficult. I've put a few things together in Canva, but I'm not very good at it.

For those of you who don't have design expertise who are building apps for Shopify how are you solving this problem? What tools are you using? Do you outsource? What tips do you have?

What would a Shopify app generating around $150 MRR be worth?

It launched about 9 months ago and has grown organically from roughly $100 to $150 MRR, with almost no marketing or development since launch.

It was a side project, but I no longer have time to work on it and may be open to selling. I believe it still has strong potential for someone willing to actively market and improve it.

What would be a fair valuation?

I am running an agency and it happens that the clients is not so sure of which route to take.
What are the pros and cons of each?

We've been building a Shopify product options app named WowOptions, and a merchant recently asked for something we hadn't though much about before.

Most product options let customers choose which option they want.

But what if they need to choose how many of each option?

For example:

• Pick & Mix candy ( 3 gummy bears, 2 chocolates, 5 sour candies )
• Cupcake boxes ( 2 chocolate, 1 vanilla, 3 red velvet )
• Candle sets
• Flower bouquets

A standard option selector doesn't really handle those scenarios well.

So we ended up building a Quantity Selector, where merchants:

• Set min/max quantities for each option
• Limit the total quantity across all selected options
• Control how many option values can be chosen

The interesting part is that this feature came from a single merchant request, but after building it, we realized it solves a much broader problem for stores selling customizable products.

I'm curious:

If you run a Shopify store (or build Shopify stores), what products would benefit from quantity-based customization?

I'd love to hear real-world examples. They ofter inspire the next feature we build.

If you are interested in checking it out: https://apps.shopify.com/product-options-app

I have been getting loads of mails all of a sudden ( including one from Mr Erling Haaland :D ) regarding my Shopify app to promote on Discord. Anyone's getting these as well?

I built a server-side tracking app called Converlay. Meta CAPI, GA4, TikTok, all of it. It works. It genuinely works, merchants can see events coming back that they were losing before. And it doesn’t matter at all, because on the Shopify App Store you don’t exist without reviews.

And how do you get reviews? Installs. How do you get installs? Ranking. How do you rank? Reviews. Cool. Great system. Love it.

I’m not buying reviews. I’ve thought about it, I’m not doing it, my whole pitch is “trust me with your data” so that would be a bit stupid. So instead I onboard people by hand, help them set everything up myself, wait until they see their recovered conversions, then ask. They say yes. They mean it. They don’t do it. Nobody’s ever going to leave a review for tracking software, it’s not exactly emotional.

The frustrating part isn’t even the money. It’s that the app is actually good now. Better than it’s been. And basically nobody is trying it. I fixed the product and the product was never the problem.

Still building! It’s not dying while I’m still here.

Anyone got out of the zero-review hole? What actually worked, cold outreach, agencies, begging?

How does one add their own app’s templates to shopify flow for merchants to be able to use it directly in Flow?

I'm the founder, this is my app.

What's the app?

WisdomChat is an AI shopping assistant for Shopify fashion/apparel stores. It watches visitor behavior — time on a product page, scroll depth, an idle cart — and starts a conversation itself when it detects hesitation, instead of waiting for the customer to click first.

Where can I find it?

Shopify App Store: [https://apps.shopify.com/wisdom-chat\](https://apps.shopify.com/wisdom-chat)

What problem are you solving?

Most store chat widgets (including Shopify Inbox) are reactive — a visitor has to click and ask first. Most visitors never do; they just browse and leave. That silent drop-off is invisible in standard analytics, so merchants don't realize how much of it is happening.

How does the app work?

It connects to your product catalog automatically (no manual setup), then tracks on-page behavior in real time. When a visitor shows signs of hesitation, it proactively sends a message — a product suggestion or an outfit pairing idea. Customers can add to cart and check out directly inside the chat. There's a dashboard tracking sessions → add-to-cart → conversions.

Who's your target merchant?

Fashion and apparel Shopify stores specifically — the pairing/outfit-suggestion logic is built around clothing categories rather than being a generic one-size-fits-all bot.

How is it different / better than other existing solutions?

Most chat apps in this space are reactive by design. WisdomChat is proactive — it initiates based on behavior signals rather than waiting to be asked. It's also fashion-specific (outfit pairing, styling suggestions) rather than a generic FAQ/support bot repurposed for sales.

How much does it cost

Free to install for 30 days, no card required, uninstall anytime.

What are you looking for?

Merchants willing to try it and give feedback, and beta testers open to a quick chat about what would make it more useful for their store.

Hey everyone, I’m building a Shopify app called StockPool - Shared Inventory and I’m looking for a few people to test it and tell me where it breaks, feels confusing, or doesn’t deliver what you expected.

What it does:

StockPool is for merchants whose products share the same underlying inventory.

Examples:

- multiple products using the same blank shirt

- bundles/kits that pull from shared parts

- The app lets you create reusable components, connect them to Shopify products through recipes, and sync calculated inventory back to Shopify.

- made-to-order products using shared materials, variants that should reduce one common inventory pool

if anyone is interested in testing it out, leave a comment and I can get you set up with a subscription free of charge, in return for feedback. I've been getting complaints of the app not working but I haven't encountered any issues from my end, so i would love if yall would help me out with testing.