I truly believed this machine was unshakeable. Built over 12 years in power and a century in the shadows. Today I'm happy to be proven wrong. There's hope for India after all.
Been a @Shopify Partner since 2014, running Wiser AI app along with other 9 apps.
Just sharing something I came across recently that I think deserves some attention.
Saw an app dev literally copying an established app's name just to ride their search traffic. This is happening more than it should.
A few things that could help if Shopify can look into this:
- Run an AI check on app names at submission โ if it's too similar to an existing app, hold it for review. Simple.
- Scan submitted screenshots too โ copied UI and designs should get flagged, not just names
- Any change to app name or listing after approval should trigger a re-review, not go live automatically
- Audit live listings regularly for policy violations โ email the developer to fix it. Most of this can be automated.
- New apps with zero reviews shouldn't show up alongside established ones in search. Let them earn visibility first.
- If a brand new partner account violates policies on their first submission itself, suspend it. Don't give bad actors multiple chances.
- Increase the app submission fee for new partner accounts โ a higher barrier to entry will naturally filter out people who are just here to copy and clutter the store
- Most of this is Level 1 stuff that AI can handle. The App Store has a great reputation and these small changes can help keep it that way.
Just some suggestions so as to do quality control on app store. I saw it happened with Pagefly as well and that app is also live.
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Intercom is great.
Crisp is solid.
But neither works if you run multiple Shopify apps.
We tried both.
We hacked around them.
We suffered.
Eventually we rebuilt our entire support stack from scratch.
Meet Superrelay.
I was tired of having to go through the AWS console every time I wanted to check Lambda logs, so I built doklog, an interactive CLI that lets you browse AWS logs right from your terminal ๐
check it out here: https://t.co/pSEOhX1Z24
I'm sick of AI replies ๐
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> "100% true"
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