Odera Joseph

Solo founder shipping Shopify apps
Arbyn: AI support that looks stuff up
Tacey: addresses, edits, upsells
Dad of 3 · Manila · Man Utd

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@Ivan_Borovets Day 4 with 0 downloads is not a verdict, it just means nobody knows it exists yet. Research told you the problem is real, distribution is a separate job entirely. Go find the handstand corners of the internet and be useful there before you ever link the app.

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@godsonrupesroy Agencies are a good door. They already have merchants with problems, you just need one to say yes.

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@abs_uiux The checkout bug being nobody's fault is the worst part. Six vendors, six support queues, all of them technically right, and the merchant eats the lost sales. App sprawl is a real tax and most stores only notice it on the day something breaks.

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@ashishpokiya010 @Shopify @buildinpublic Congrats on getting it live 🚀 App Store review is its own boss fight 😅 push notifs done right is where the money hides imo 📲🔥

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@BrainPathio Using AI to do less is the underrated move tbh

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@gonogo_team The waiting part is the killer. Most founders know something is off way before they act, they just want one more month of data to make the decision feel safe. It never gets safer, it just gets more expensive.

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@JustasOras Good to see a real review come back. 10k overnight is not a small correction.

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@JohnEStrom71840 @bookingcom This is the whole problem with support bots that can talk but cannot do anything. If it cannot actually pull your reservation and change it, it is just a slower hold music. Deflection metrics look great while the customer is stranded.

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@uriel_builds @X shipping speed looking good

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@alex_momeni Half the leaks I see are not on the page at all, they are post purchase. Wrong address, no order status, then a support ticket instead of a repeat order.

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@jzazove Appreciate the follow through on this. For small app devs one unfair 1 star can move the rating more than a month of good work, so having a real appeals path matters a lot.

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@aiwithadb 529 😭😭 the whole timeline just went quiet ☕️

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@davidcasem My benchmark is how much of my day it saves shipping app code. Claude keeps winning that one.

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@Liam2307 @dgalarza Cart and checkout are the honest test. Discovery is the easy half. The moment an agent has to touch a real order, address, tax, refund, you need write access with guardrails and Shopify staying the source of truth. That part is still messy.

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@simonnyberg it never will be tbh. the goal is not perfect, it's that bad output gets caught before you ever see it. mine still writes nonsense sometimes, the tests just yell first

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@jackfriks CF is lowkey goated tho

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@kunchenguid testing testing for the Invasion day haha

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@Zai_org Lol

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[Odera Joseph @OderaOfficial]

Shopify just shipped auto tax recalc when you change a shipping address.

Small thing, huge for anyone who's ever fixed an address after checkout and watched the numbers go weird.

Been living in that mess with merchants. Address edits are not edge cases. They're Tuesday.