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Helping @Shopify partners grow.

[mark @marktanft]

We're diving deep into Built for Shopify and answering your questions. See you there! 💎

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

Let’s talk about Built for Shopify 💎

Join @jzazove, @marktanft, and Build Award winners @celispj and @cpgeiss to chat about the benefits and what’s new for BFS apps

Drop your questions

https://t.co/vY9GeT2pqF

[mark @marktanft]

In 2026, you are not being replaced by AI that writes better code. You are being replaced by the cost center you represent.

[mark @marktanft]

Product-Market Fit used to feel like a milestone you reached, but now it feels more like something you constantly maintain.

• Usage metrics feel less reliable on their own when users are interacting through APIs and agents workflows

• If your product disappeared tomorrow, ask yourself whether your customers would panic or just switch to the next tool.

• You can’t just rely on buying ads anymore. The stronger companies are building community and education with the product.

Thanks @MadronaVentures for hosting.

[mark @marktanft]

Spent some time digging into the @cursor_ai SDK and they are really growing beyond its IDE roots well into this 'third era' of coding.

You create and run Cursor agents from code, using the same agent system but now you can build your own workflows around it. (ngl, it took me a bit to fully understand the shift with so many layers)

Checkout Cursor cookbook and try it yourself:

1. Use the SDK to load SDK-aware context
2. Run the app and connect it to Cursor Cloud Agents
3. Modify the UI live with Cursor Agent

[mark @marktanft]

Back at @ai2incubator on a really nice day to talk about AI governance. Did you know that major insurers are already starting to exclude AI-related damages from standard liability coverage?

Pretty major shift, AI risk is becoming something enterprises are actively pricing, governing, and planning around.

Thanks to @glean for sponsoring this time.

[mark @marktanft]

Got the chance to finally spend more time with latest @cursor_ai 3 and you can really feel the workflow shifting.

A lot of it now feels intentionally built around planning first, and managing context instead of constantly fighting it.

The smaller details are especially good too: lightweight planning flows, less UI clutter, and scoped changes. It weirdly feels less like using an IDE and more like supervising a team.

Really great direction overall. Thanks for the demo, a lot of thoughtful stuff packed in there.

[mark @marktanft]

@Lovable has completely changed my pace. It’s accelerated everything to the point where building is actually fun again.

I’m able to knock out fully functioning apps at a ridiculous speed, mostly to solve my own weird, specific problems. And the best part is the learning that comes with it, plus actually using the apps because they’re designed exactly the way I want them to work.

Excited to meet founders as the Lovable Founder Series comes to Seattle. See you there.

[Lovable @Lovable]

Introducing the Founder Series: a new set of global events, by founders, for founders.

You’ll hear from people who have already turned their product into a real business, and then get the chance to build your own.

Find a Founder Series event near you: https://t.co/v1rPzNITXa

[mark @marktanft]

I was building a few apps this week and kept wishing I could do this natively on mobile, the first iterations also weren’t mobile-optimized. Glad to see this live now!

[Lovable @Lovable]

Introducing the Lovable mobile app.

Your ideas won’t wait. Now you can build them anywhere.

[mark @marktanft]

Additional reminders when submitting an app: https://t.co/sxjwiv8ve7

[mark @marktanft]

The team is working through the backlog and we’re actively investing in improvements to the application process. Thanks for your support!

[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 🙏

[mark @marktanft]

@_jamesmck @nathan_covey @Shopify Hey James, sorry for the wait. Our app review queue is running longer than usual right now due to high volume, and we appreciate your patience while we work through the backlog.

[mark @marktanft]

Hi Farid, glad you got your renewal approved! If you’ve already submitted your renewal and have received feedback from our review team, that email is just a friendly reminder that you’re still within the grace period. The team is working to improve the language so it's less confusing. Appreciate the feedback.

[mark @marktanft]

One of my highlights last year was meeting people who care deeply about what they’re building and who they’re building it for.

Pumped to do that again, see you there!

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

Merged last year's feedback
Result: double the event

dot dev is back & it’s 2 full days

July 21–22 in Toronto

[mark @marktanft]

@matthewsmith Hey Matt - sorry to hear about your last review experience. Looking into the feedback with the team and sending you a note

[mark @marktanft]

I’ve felt this too. AI collapses the cost of validation, you can ship a rough thing in days and see some signals.

The bottleneck shifts to problem framing, sequencing, tradeoffs. The hardest part is getting people to agree. Is there a tool for this? :)

The fastest teams aren’t skipping strategy, they’re compressing it into tighter loops. Net, AI raises the bar on real product judgment.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

I find it funny that with AI you can just build and validate ideas faster than ever instead of writing some “strategic” plan but to actually build something good you have to spend 80% of time working with AI on the plan.

[mark @marktanft]

New year, new Audible credits, chasing better thinking this year. Let’s go.

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

The Renaissance Edition is here. Let's chat more about it.

Join @eytanseidman, @jzazove, @aaronglazer, @darius_gai, and @liam_at_shopify as they break down what’s new for devs.

Drop your questions 👇

https://t.co/rAw29yBqDu

[mark @marktanft]

Along with 150+updates as part of this announcements, click around at this pretty page: https://t.co/78fAak2nUE

Couldn't have done this without @ShopifyDevs community! 🚀

[mark @marktanft]

We pushed a bunch of stuff today and pretty excited about it. We've added stability to Built for Shopify, better app discoverability, and performance insights tools as part of Winter Editions.🚀

[mark @marktanft]

Checkout some highlights here: https://t.co/qpm0s8nxsi

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Shopify: The RenAIssance Edition

Sidekick updates, Agentic Storefronts for merchants, new tools for devs building commerce agents, AI simulations, and more 🧵

[mark @marktanft]

@levelsio Well we prohibit aircraft above Disneyland.