Axel Hardy

👨🏻‍💻 French solo dev crafting Shopify apps that make merchants’ lives easier - sharing my journey here #BuildingInPublic

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

What’s the best practice for expiring refresh tokens? Should apps keep them alive with a background/cron refresh via a lightweight API call, or let them expire and require the merchant to reopen the app if there’s no activity for 90 days?

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@matthewsmith Yep, it's been over an hour now. Hopefully merchants won't blame us, app developers, for it and leave bad reviews...

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@faridmovsumov Yes, same here. Lots of error in the logs. 404 errors on API calls. Hopefully it won't end in bad reviews... 😤

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@aurelienbbn @ShopifySupport THIS and the REST API on my end is returning 404 errors which is a major issue as well for apps...

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

Shopify REST API seems to be returning a Not Found error. Really not ideal!

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

Shopify admin seems to be down here, anyone else? 🧐

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

Shopify admin seems to be down here, anyone else? 🧐

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@karri_tweets

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@faridmovsumov Same here! I started by migrating one of my smaller apps and I'm currently monitoring it before rolling it out to the rest...

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

FYI, if you’re working on a feature on a dev store and run into an App Bridge issue, it may be dev-store only. I rushed to patch all my apps yesterday after seeing broken navigation, despite not receiving a single merchant report. Turns out I was the only one seeing it 😅

[David Cameron @dave_cameron]

@fraxool @jzazove Yep it was Dev shops only so we could make sure we caught any issues here before merchants. Appreciate you sharing the issues Axel

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@dave_cameron @jzazove Definitely good to know that these updates sometimes roll out to dev stores first. Next time I’m the only one seeing an issue, I’ll make sure to test it on my wife’s live store before sounding the alarm 😅

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

Looks like App Bridge is having a rough day. Some redirects using JS open() suddenly stopped working forcing me to push non-ideal workarounds across all my apps. Also getting random alerts about “idToken unavailable”. Friday doesn’t seem like the best day for updates like this…

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@jzazove Hmm great question! And yes, definitely possible for the redirect issue! Because I only discovered the issue by myself this morning while working on a feature. I was not aware it could impact only dev stores 🧐

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@tmwebstudio Exactly, I’m thinking about switching to this way of working in the next few weeks!

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

As a solo Shopify developer since 2020, people could easily assume that AI made my work lighter. Ironically, in some ways, it’s been the exact opposite for me.

Over the past few months, I’ve started struggling with sleep for the first time in my life. My brain just doesn’t seem able to switch off anymore. Before the AI era, I could actually disconnect. I could travel, enjoy weekends, step away from work without constantly thinking about the next feature or project.

Now everything moves so fast that I feel permanently “on”. Even on weekends, I end up reopening my laptop, launching Codex or Claude, and finishing “just one more thing”. I genuinely love building with AI and I’m excited by what’s happening right now, but the pace and constant possibilities have changed the way my brain works. Instead of working less, I feel like I’m thinking about work more than ever.

And honestly, it’s exhausting sometimes. I’m more tired than before, my sleep is getting impacted, and I’m realizing how difficult it has become to truly disconnect.

Curious to know if other solo devs or entrepreneurs are feeling the same lately.

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@heysandy801 I remember seeing a similar post from you! Thanks for sharing this @heysandy801!

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@Philo01 Thanks for sharing this and your experience. It definitely helps to feel “not alone". In June, I’m actually planning to take a real break, like I did over the last two years. I’m sure it’ll help!

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

@malisauskasLT I’m in!

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

Just got my BFS review email and... the only rejection reason I can't fix is this s-select Polaris Web Components issue I reported a month ago 😪 so my only option now might be to stop using s-select entirely and go back to regular HTML <select> elements. Super frustrating.

[Axel Hardy @fraxool]

Is it a known issue that Polaris Web Components s-select sometimes doesn’t display its default value on page load? Any known workaround?