Jamie Derrick

Shopify expert agency: app: FBA: coming very soon

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

Just pushed an update to our Shopify app and now the whole of Shopify is down.

Did I just crash all of #shopify? 🤷‍♂️

#whoops

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My gym has started using new software and accompanying app for memberships/classses/etc and I'm almost offended that companies can sell software with a UI/UX that bad.

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@hcaz32000 @Shopify I think same day uninstalls will unfortunately always relatively be high. A large number will be merchants simply blindly installing apps to see if it does what they need it do do and then uninstalling it.

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@it4sec Alternatively, pop your keys in an empty box of Altoids

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#thingsthathavehappenedtojamieinthesauna
A big group of executives in suits from the gym head office came in for a tour of the facilities and just stood there talking while looking at me.

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I'm introducing a new feature to my twitter feed called "things that have happened to Jamie in the Sauna".

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@nexta_tv camouflage and hi vis? Make your mind up lads.

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

So *hopefully* overtime when more users have used the new version and had it cached, this should calm down and come under the threshold.

However, we're not certain on this. So basically, we'll keep an eye on this and if it doesn't calm down then we'll dig deeper.

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

Our big Shopify app update involved moving most of the frontend over to React. Something we have noticed is that our LCP score has gone crazy. In fact it's outside of the "good" threshold. Why has this happened? What can we do?...

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Well. We think it's because the initial dashboard page is now in React so requires the entire app JS file to download which is several MBs.

Once a merchant has done this once then it's cached and should be instant.

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Update on my mission to get our app "Built for Shopify" 🥳

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@gilgNYC wtf. I'm guessing this is basically the same app 25 times but slightly different? A great tactic but didn't think that was allowed?!

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Seriously, if you're in D2C and preparing from BFCM, just listen to this episode of Limited Supply from @mrsharma and @moizali. It's all absolute gold.

https://t.co/BDfAblGq2d

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And there's many more!

So why does "Auto Schedule" fail this requirement but all of the above do not? Super frustrating!

@ShopifyDevs @liam_at_shopify

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

Built for Shopify app update...
So they've come back with a relatively short and actionable list, which is great. But there's just one requirement which is just silly:

"There is an App Store Requirement that app names cannot be a generic description of your app's functionality."

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

Here's some example names of other apps that are certified built for shopify:

Checkout Blocks — Upsells, etc (@gilgNYC 😉)
Bundler - Product Bundles
Essential Countdown Timer Bar
QR Code Generator Hub
Order Automator
Event Ticketing

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

@faridmovsumov Appreciate your input though 😊

[Jamie Derrick @jamiederrick]

Updates to our Shopify app have now been deployed and tested 😁

More functionality is coming soon.

Here it is on the app store:

https://t.co/82T926hae8

Probably need to update the listing tbh. The imagary is looking especially rubbish.

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@faridmovsumov Already tried that a few months back. Installs tanked. We've got some new functionality (and hopefully built for shopify status) coming soon so hopefully that will justify another increase.

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@Timb03 Don't bother fixing bugs 😄