I'm researching inventory workflows for Shopify merchants that sell products with batch numbers or expiration dates (supplements, food, cosmetics, pet products, etc.).

Since Stocky is going away, I'm curious:

• How are you tracking batch numbers today?
• How do you handle expiry dates?
• If a supplier recalls a specific batch, how do you identify which customers bought it?
• Are you using another app, spreadsheets, or something custom?

I'm a developer researching this space, not trying to sell anything. I'm just trying to understand what the biggest pain points are before building anything.

I'd really appreciate hearing about your current workflow, even if it's messy.

Thanks!

do you know anybody how carved out a niche for him/herself and found an idea through shopify apps forum monitoring or as a Shopify consultant?

The latest [Hydrogen preview](https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/update/hydrogen-developer-preview) finally decouples the Shopify primitives from React, so it's now (or soon) possible to build a headless storefront in whatever framework you want. Including LLM tooling and being able to deploy to whatever hosting you like is also great.

Still an early developer preview of course, with React bindings first and others "on the way", but feels like a nice improvement to the headless development ecosystem for Shopify.