Patrick Bollenbach

🇨🇦 Building and entirely too many community platforms like to bring people together.

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@heysandy801 Shopify sent me the survey about the ecosystem, basically what I said was: I love this platform to death, have invested my entire career on it, but I don't see a sustainable future to build a business on it and I would not recommend others to do the same. It's an unfortunate turn

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@kimurathomas 👏 I like this idea. It's disappointing that it has come to it but I think it's a good business decision (and I will be following suit with my apps very soon as well)

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@eytanseidman I appreciate your responsiveness and communication here, but this is so hard to use. I'd be happy to show my workflow some time. Just makes me actively angry trying to access merchant stores right now. Used to take < 3 seconds from anywhere in my pinned Partners tab

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

The Shopify dev dashboard is so unintuitive. Before I was able to type a store name into the global search on Partners and see status / login in 2 clicks. Now requires: open dev dash > go to Stores page > click dev stores > click tiny search button > type store > click store name

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@thepatwalls I've been getting fake Sendgrid emails all day

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@TaylorSicard Appreciate this, need more of this in the space

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@faridmovsumov I hope you are right!!

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@tokifyi @chatbase @yasser_elsaid_ @postbridge_ @jackfriks @usecollabstr @dulay604 @obsdmd @kepano @indexsy @yacineMTB 🫡

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@tokifyi use @lunchmoney_app !!! Canadian made by @lunchbag :)

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

Canadian Shopify Partners: do you get paid out into a USD account or CAD?

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@KeiraArts @ShopifyDevs If they reply haha! Nothing yet :)

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

The past few weeks I've submitted more Shopify Partner violations than I have in my last 10 years in the ecosystem. The floodgates have opened. @ShopifyDevs

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@ShopifyDevs this is just funny to me

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@ShopifyDevs (Haven't received a reply to any of them yet)
Still sitting wondering about this app using my (tm pending) app name in their title: https://t.co/5NQwQzU6aX

I reached out to them and they said Shopify said it was okay: "In this case, Shopify approved the use of this wording"

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

Shopify app devs: is it allowed for a competitor to put my (trademark pending) app name in their app title? eg. this one has Recipe Kit in their app title

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@ShopifyDevs Maybe I'll start spamming app names in app titles if this is okay. I didn't even realize that they are using the exact same words as my app title, just moved around 😂

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@leteyski Great stuff, need more of this in the app ecosystem

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@KosdiMarton @heymantle I really don’t like that the search now opens a pseudo-chat - I just want a type-ahead search input!

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@malisauskasLT @JesseSchoberg 👀😂

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@Railway Was just about to move all my services and apps from Render to Railway today 🥲

[Patrick Bollenbach @patrickbo11e]

@malisauskasLT Considering the URGENT email Shopify sends me saying I will get delisted for a small bug fix / UX requirement from random app store reviews, this is such a silly slap on the hand