Prashant | Building Veia

Building @veia_app — Shopify mobile apps for $49/month.
Coz the builders merchants actually want, got too expensive.
Follow the build.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

I'm Prashant. Mobile dev from bangalore, building veia at night. what it is, all boring:

- a shopify mobile app builder
- $49/month, flat
- no cut of your sales
- native ios + android

the boring part is on purpose. small stores got priced out of mobile apps.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

rebuilt the product page around what shoppers do. before → now, all boring:

- one photo → full-screen: pinch, double-tap, swipe
- wall of text → sections that fold
- offer codes on the page
- a size guide
- reviews: average, star breakdown, sorting

#buildinpublic #ecommerce

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

veia lets a store make an offer app-only. why:

- same price in app and on site = no reason to keep the app
- app-only price = a reason to open it
- a new kind of offer, not a copy of her site discounts

that offer is why the icon stays on the phone.

#buildinpublic #shopify

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

veia doesn't ask a merchant to pick a theme. what it does, all boring:

- reads her store
- takes her colours, fonts, logo
- opens looking like her brand
- she approves, not chooses

a merchant with no designer can't tell which preset is "hers".

#buildinpublic #shopify

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

for 4 days no shopper could sign in to any store app. what they saw, all boring:

- enter email
- get the code
- type it
- signed out again, no error

every automated check was green. a human on a real phone found it.

green tests, broken product.

#buildinpublic #ecommerce

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

earlier this week i said polished apps use brand colour on ~1% of the screen.

measured ours: 5.1%.

this week the top bar went light, with the store's colour as an accent, not a full fill.

practising what i posted.

#buildinpublic #uidesign #ecommerce

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

one shopper review on a big d2c app:

"items in the cart disappear after a while."

not a bug report. a lost order. a cart should survive closing the app, not reset.

the boring stuff is where stores leak money.

#buildinpublic #ecommerce

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

our app preview and real app kept drifting apart. fix, all boring:

- ~146 screen states
- each rendered on both
- compared box by box, pixel by pixel
- on every commit, not before release

a preview that lies is worse than no preview.

#buildinpublic #mobiledev #ecommerce

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@Joi2James https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@MalikAbdul94020 https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

read reviews of 3 indian d2c brand apps. top complaints, all boring:

- "where's my order"
- tracking that never moves
- support that's only bots
- helpline switched off

the apps sit at 4.5+. brands lose people after checkout, not in the app.

#buildinpublic #ecommerce

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@CapriniDev77 @ZidaneZ08902030 @invisiblehop I have experience working with kmp in apps with millions of users. Works flawlessly. Totally production grade.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@ananyairl DISTRIBUTION

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@SamVale29 https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@DEVIN__SETH https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@anupamrjp https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@MalikAbdul94020 https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@ZidaneZ08902030 architecting which makes dark mode easily adaptable is my way to go, rather than developing it from day 1.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@anupamrjp https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@Seanwvibedev https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.

[Prashant | Building Veia @paliwal_builds]

@aiwithadb https://t.co/QyOq2KNkDF
turns a shopify store into its own fully native ios + android app. products, cart, checkout, push notifs, all synced from the store.