ShopaFree

Free Shopify Setup & Design Expert
+ Free Shopify Plus Migration
+ Free Hugs
+ Free :)
👉

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

Today we celebrate 10 years of setting up @Shopify stores for free! 🎁 We were going to be millionaires at this point. We were going to begin our YouTube channel 📺 We were going to start writing a book about the journey 📖 Instead of all that, we made a @grok slop cake. Enjoy 🎂

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

Rooting for @get_artcraft on a brilliantly bright start to what will undoubtedly be an arduous attack on @Adobe For the uninitiated, ArtCraft just made both online & downloadable open source versions of PhotoShop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, ID, the whole CC #freeware

[Try ArtCraft @get_artcraft]

Open source eventually always wins.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

Has this been addressed? @Shopify @liam_at_shopify

[Michaël @mic_gallego]

Our team started to experiment some more complex sections with theme blocks. While passing parameters to static blocks help, not being able to pass paraemters or context to dynamic blocks block us for basically all of our sections ;/. Something must be done here!

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

📂 File Under Free
→ Screen Recorder
→ Video Editor

Screen Studio and FocuSee and every other subscription SaaS screen recorders are moot.

These 3 free alternatives (first 2 are forks of the last) seem to provide everything you need, entirely free 🎁

• Recordly : https://t.co/G0F1VUIBDI
• Beam : https://t.co/6c7gNVEm9w
• OpenScreen : https://t.co/QeogwDf6IG

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@Shopify's Darkest Day
It is 8:10pm on the infamous 8.10 August 10th, 2026, when partner rev share was reduced from "forever" to "four years" and our entire business model has been beaten badly. Help us @tobi you're our only hope. Recharge the Trust Battery.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

Free Shopify Plus Migration
+ Support to Jan 1st '27

Are you considering moving to #ShopifyPlus ? If you sign via our referral BEFORE AUGUST 10th, we provide the following for free.

• 101 hours of free des/dev hours
• Free support through the end of the year
• Big warm hug 🤗 Detroit area only

Available only until Aug 10th

On that day @Shopify will end their forever partner share (20% of what you pay them, nothing to do with your sales) and this fundamentally alters our business model moving forward.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@ChrisHantis You think we have 6 months, huh? Love the optimism ⌛️💣

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

ATTN 📢 All online sellers of anything : I don't need 15 emails when I buy something from you, or 10, or even 5. 2 is fine. 1 telling me you got the order. 1 confirming when you sent it. Even then, make the 2nd optional. Also, fuck your stupid drip emails (unsubscribed)📭

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

As someone that builds @Shopify sites (for free), I would be ecstatic if work was optional. +1 for UHI. That said, if work actually becomes optional, does money go away? If money goes away, what mechanisms will facilitate obtaining resources (food, shelter, clothing, etc)? 💸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@PeterDiamandis Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@davidsven Shutup and take my money! I have wanted this since I was too young to speak. Hope this actually comes to be one day. At the very least, maybe some pockets, select cities or states that ban both outright.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@ninepixelgrid I'm here for the employee feet pix 👣

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

True. They do indeed kind of have a "limited on purpose " perspective, imposing bumper bowl barrier rails to force simplicity, even if not desired. This has always felt wrong to me as well.

AI, well that's just an exponential runaway growth of possibility, that I'm fairly certain most everyone is overestimating in the short term and underestimating in the long term. Personally, I think eventually, everything in both the pixels and atoms worlds will just be, "Press this magic button and digital god will make it for you for free or close to free." We're a ways away from that still, but it's on the horizon, maybe in Shopify's case, even in the Horizon :)

From my perspective, there should effectively be two levels of customization within the Theme Customizer itself. As it stands there is just the bumper bowl K.I.S.S. guides (customizer) for merchants, and the wild-wild-whatever (code editor) for devs. Now with the visible_if conditional logic finally available, theme devs should take the plunge of forking everything 🍴 Here's our "play by the mother-shop rules" for exposure and integrated sales, and here's our underlying, more customizable and complex, but still user friendly variation. Guess you'd have to name them differently or something, but the core code could still be the same.

☝️This is the way.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@TRPage_dev It will be interesting to see how everything unfolds. The theme store has always felt like a stop gap, to fill in features and functionality where the core CMS falls short. For that reason and AI, I think it's going the way of the dodo, but we'll see . . .

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@grok @xai Thanx Grok! This is DEFINITELY something I would consider to be a severe limitation. What's the timeline on adding this for the future?

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

Grok not being able to run HTML for quick live mockups is disappointing to say the least. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini can all do this, and they do it rather easily. @grok @xai

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@BrandGrowthOS @_cntxt @DavidOndrej1 Decade later, Tim Urban's insights in this Wait But Why article on AI are still potently poignant.

https://t.co/2LnWs9tGp2

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@itsdevdaniel Cool! What does it do?

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

@philkyprianou Heh heh. Yup. Been under a rock for awhile. Currently crawling creepily towards the sun again. Hope all's well Phil!

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

🧊 Iceberg Functionality = Simple small surface setup for an easy to use experience + vastly varying voluminous advanced options buried below for devs and DIY'rs.

[ShopaFree @ShopaFree]

Horizon feels like the correct path, but the Sections & Blocks it contains feel like the wrong vehicles. Cascading conditional visible_if overrides with Theme Settings > Sections > Blocks are needed. Flexible options should supplant design specific sections too.