Daniel Beck

Founder at Ablestar (bulk edit) & Altera (import/export) - Shopify apps for your store data.
Previously Sequoia Capital. Living in 🇪🇸.

[Taylor Page @TRPage_dev]

If you’re an experienced Shopify Developer looking for community, honest answers only, why haven’t you applied to @ShopDevAlliance?

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

This is a huge advancement in Shopify webhooks 🎉 Filtering, no more REST API field names, additional fields, custom responses.. I love it 🚀

[Harshdeep Singh Hura @kinngh]

Webhooks were built for a simpler time. Next Generation Events are built for ours.

Choose what triggers your webhook, shape your payload with GraphQL and run filters before it even hits your endpoint.

Now in Developer Preview.

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@JordanFinners @ChrisHantis @takshshahh Thanks @JordanFinners

We do have a CLI for our Altera import/export app which supports multiple stores. So you could export metafields/metaobjects + definitions from one store and copy them to another store using that. Happy to discuss more over DM if you want

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@nick_wesselman I use it a couple times a week across different dev stores. It's quick for one-off queries and I don't have to worry about what store I'm connected to. Being able to quickly pull up the documentation on the left is also helpful

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

I put together a list of common issues we've run into with BFS reviews. Onboarding, Contextual Save Bar, CLS, all the fun ones...
https://t.co/LXBsrN0zcx

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@kurtinc Thumbs up uses the app bridge review prompt, thumbs down loads some custom feedback modal.

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@mirvise That would be cool, maybe similar to how they're working on Sidekick extensions now.

Usage has been low but it's sticky for those that 'get it' and are already using CC. We had one user build out a whole translation pipeline for their store using the tool which was cool to see

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

Right now it’s just a YouTube video (https://t.co/xqQ0TKq6Lg) but once we get the skills finished we’ll make them available as a CC plugin.

In the app we already have a “FYI here’s how you can do the same thing via CLI” card and we’ll probably expand that to include a link to the LLM setup

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@SkinnyWaterApps We have a lot of this with Altera. It works via spreadsheets so all changes are stored, there's a record of what's been run and you can restrict access to certain data types: https://t.co/nnYpcpwpoX

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@patjakubik It has a lot of overlap with what we're doing with Altera. You can control your store via Claude but all changes are in CSV files and there's logs of what's changed. By coincidence I recorded a video on this yesterday right before Shopify dropped this https://t.co/nnYpcpwpoX

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@BasilAKhan @ShopifyDevs I hand't thought of that, that'd be so cool!

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

A big thanks to @ShopifyDevs for the Shopify Builders Skateboard! My kids were jealous I didn't leave it at home but it looks great in the office!

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@patjakubik 💯 The Cloudflare blocking is so annoying, so many things you can't access when it's on. I went several months just thinking certain sites were down before I realized what was going on

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@faridmovsumov We see this occasionally but it's usually when it takes a really long time to app-bridge.js to load. I'm assuming it's some temporary connection issue the client has where it doesn't load in time

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

Thanks! Yeah, we tell the LLM the schema for our search filters and include some store-specific information in the initial prompt. Then there's also a few tools we have for looking up other data. One thing that helps is that we have all the product data in our local DB so we can return it faster instead of first pulling it from the Shopify API

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

Just added natural language searching to Ablestar. First AI-related feature we've added but happy with how it turned out. Feels a lot easier than scrolling through tons of filters

[Ablestar @ablestarco]

Just in: search for the products you want to edit using natural text instead of manually selecting your filters

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@KatieKeithBarn2 We had a similar issue on a recent BFS review. The onboarding needs to be dismissible for BFS. However, if the user dismissed it an a critical step of the setup was still missing, we were told to put a red banner at the top of the homepage explaining the missing step

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@patjakubik "/store/abcstore/themes/current/editor" works but sadly it doesn't look like '/store/abcstore/themes/current/language" works. Not sure if there's another way...

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

@ThreeAcres Yeah, I think the new forums are better for getting help but worse for meeting others

[Daniel Beck @1danielbeck]

End of an era…