Maxine

Partner community & events at @Shopify. Growing communities and gardens in equal measure 🍅. Often found petting 🐶 and talking about nature✨.

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

@aimeeserafim @dear_trudence @AlfalfaAnne @reachsakgupta @ash_edmundson @ElL3Na_ @brendamarienyc Heck yeah! But where's Anne and Trudy? lol

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

Partner Town Hall is back on Nov 5!

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

You're invited to our next Partner Town Hall
Nov 5, 10:00 am ET

We've got a stacked list:

1. VP of Partnerships @atleeclark
2. VP of Product @eytanseidman
3. Chief Information Security Officer Andrew Dunbar

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

Last week, we welcomed a group of women in commerce to our Shopify office for connection and community.

Recently back on the Partner Community team, and already getting those 2019 meetup feels! 💚

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

@dear_trudence @atleeclark omg LOL at my pose! haha

[dear trudence @dear_trudence]

The Women Unified in Commerce crew was in Ottawa last week 🎉 i can't believe how many people traveled from GTA & QC 🍁. Shootout to @lil_poutine & @atleeclark for your help and great talk by Atlee 🙌

[Blair Beckwith @blairbeckwith]

I’ve always appreciated how open and collaborative the Shopify Partner community is.

But a few recent conversations have made me wonder whether the uncertainty around SaaS and agency work is changing that. Not in a total doomsday way, but a subtle vibe shift.

I get the anxiety: margins under pressure, and customers asking harder questions about where value is actually being created.

I worry that this uncertainty is making some of us more protective of what’s working—and the ecosystem a little less open as a result.

Less sharing of what works and what doesn’t. Less tide-raising and more moat-building.

It's possible I'm over-reading a small sample.

Are you feeling this in your own conversations with partners? What am I missing?

Counterexamples especially welcome.

[Atlee Clark @atleeclark]

DotDev was 🔥 today! We know there were some sessions that people wanted but couldn’t get into so we decided to do them again. Get the updates: https://t.co/ibtQ16zPRe

[Liam Griffin @liam_at_shopify]

New dev mode drop on our Shopify Supply store - the freshest of vibes, don't sleep on these!

Also - check out the legendary devs featured! @kinngh @dear_trudence @kimurathomas

[dear trudence @dear_trudence]

Yappers gonna yap #dotdev @brendamarienyc @im__drb @AlfalfaAnne

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

I spy… DotDev 2026 👀

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

DotDev lineup is live

Fireside with @tobi and @harleyf. Build Awards. Block Party.

And 60+ more sessions

[Shopify @Shopify]

the Shopify AI Toolkit is here

manage your store with your favorite agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and more

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

Tickets are live for DotDev 2026

Get ready for 2 full days of demoing new products and connecting with other builders

[Andrew Evershed @aevershed]

So excited to get this into the hands of Partners soon! A big first step in our path to burn down the toil of building on Shopify

We're moving our Partners towards using first-class features our merchants know & love, ensuring everyone benefits when we ship improvements.

[Mac King @MacKing]

My view from the Partner Town Hall. Love this community. Let’s keep building @atleeclark @harleyf 💪

[Liam Griffin @liam_at_shopify]

Shopify Partner Town Hall in Toronto!!

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

@TRPage_dev @ShopDevAlliance @austriker27 But first, July 2026 😅

[Harshdeep Singh Hura @kinngh]

Re: Shopify Metafield Limits

[Atlee Clark @atleeclark]

App Devs: we owe you an update. App approval times have slowed down in the past few months as we've seen a huge increase in submissions.

We are committed to making sure the apps in our App Store are high quality, secure, and impactful tools for our merchants, and that means we don't take approvals lightly.

We're actively working to bring review times down through product investment and ops ramp up. We will keep you updated as this improves.

Thank you for all the feedback and patience 🙏

[Maxine @lil_poutine]

✨Shinny new new for Dev Platform!

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

New in the Dev Platform:

GraphQL automation from Shopify CLI
Enhanced webhook logs at scale
Dev Dashboard in 28 languages