Bunny 🐰

Indie dev building for e-commerce sellers 🛒 | Sharing wins, fails & real numbers | 🏔️ Hiker · 🏂 Snowboarder · 🚢 Shipping from Vancouver

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

While everyone's glued to Big Deal Days, TikTok Shop starts Black Friday deals this month — up to 50% off. One boutique owner said her $5 slippers only exist because TikTok gave her 'special pricing.' Subsidized discounts vs your ad budget. Where's your holiday bet going? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

A seller got Amazon to refund years of storage fees — for inventory that never existed. A 'ledger synchronization error' kept failing their disposal orders. Ghost stock, billed monthly. Checked yours lately? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

The Shopify → ads manager → Shopify refresh loop 😭 Been there. Those $50 tests that felt brutal at the time are what made spending big later feel normal.

[jordan @JxrdanB_]

I remember testing products with barely enough money to test another one if it failed

Every $50 spent felt fucking painful

I'd refresh Shopify hoping an order would come through

Then refresh ads manager

Then Shopify again 😭

Now I can spend more in a day than I used to make in months

Don't underestimate how different your life can look in 2 years if you just refuse to stop

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

From Oct 23, Shopify Tax auto-taxes return shipping fees (US merchants) — sounds helpful, until you remember your old manual workaround already added tax. Same label, taxed twice. Ouch. Anyone audited their return-shipping setup yet? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

FedEx now asks for a QR code at the door for some high-value deliveries — no code, no package. End of the "it says delivered but it's gone" refund saga? Or just a new kind of headache when your customer misses the knock by two minutes. Which one is it? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Hey @X algorithm 👋
I'm looking to connect with people in:
- E-commerce
- Shopify apps
- Amazon FBA
- DTC brands
- Indie hackers building for sellers
Let's connect! 🛒

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Fun fact for Big Deal Days: the deal submission window closed Sept 8. Amazon announced the event dates Sept 14. So every seller committed discount depth, fees and stock before knowing when it runs. Commit first, calendar later. How'd that sit with everyone this morning? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

October panic math: Amazon's Black Friday inventory cutoff is Oct 21, and you book the delivery appointment 14 days out. Back it up and the trucks leave your warehouse around Oct 7. Who's refreshing a carrier page instead of sleeping? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Amazon now lets sellers manage Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok sales from their Amazon dashboard. Free. Convenient — but handing the wolf your lambs to count. Would you run all your channels through Amazon? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

That chart hurts a little — in a useful way. More money in the Shopify app store, but wayyyyy more apps chasing it. Find your own edge. 💪

[John Speed @John_Speed]

More money, but wayyyyy more apps.

For years Shopify payouts to app developers grew faster than the number of apps, which made this a compelling opportunity to chase. Now apps are launching far faster than the money appears to be growing.

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

The $39 plan is the cheapest line on most Shopify invoices. The app stack — reviews, upsells — quietly costs more. Which app are you still paying for that you forgot why you installed? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

People are asking AI what to buy now. Amazon's blocking AI shopping agents; Shopify partnered with Meta to let them check out via Shop Pay. Not sure which side I'd rather sell on, tbh. Are you built for humans, robots, or both? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Big Deal Days starts tomorrow, and the quiet truth: no ads = buried. Sellers hand about 14% of event revenue back to Amazon as ad spend. Not sure it's a sale at that point — more like rent. Are you paying up this time? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

@xofthang @spacedevin Congrats on shipping it! First publish is the hardest one. SEO + AI answer optimisation is a smart angle too — every seller right now is asking how to show up in AI answers. 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

@RafiqulShopon $4.85 from a total stranger is the best revenue you'll ever earn. It proves someone will pay for what you build — everything after this is just scaling it up. Congrats, seriously. 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

The fulfillment part is what got me. It buys the product and handles tracking + emails to the customer. The boring plumbing everyone avoids — he built it in an afternoon. 🐰

[Hamza Lamoudni @HamzaLamoudni]

People are using vibe coding for the wrong shit.

I pay $0 for Shopify apps.

I vibe-coded my own:

Checkout
Fulfillment platform
Reviews app
Profit/KPI dashboard
Store + PDPs + landing pages
And a bunch of internal tools

Each one took me an hour or less.

The fulfillment platform buys the products, adds tracking to Shopify and emails the customer automatically.

The checkout is better for my business than Shopify's and works as a backup with Whop.

The reviews app is better than anything I found on the market.

The KPI dashboard tells me exactly what I need to know.

And my stores look better than 99% of the “premium” branded stores I see.

Stop vibe coding toys.

Build the shit your business actually needs.

Comment “Apps” if you want me to share them.

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

New Seller Central dropped and sellers are lost — the Payments dashboard is just gone. 6 clicks now for a 1-click job. Whoever designed it has never been a seller. What menu did you waste 20 minutes hunting for? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Amazon stopped offering prep & labeling this year, so a blurry FNSKU label now costs you $0.50-$2 a unit — or the whole shipment gets rejected. Q4 prep season is basically defusing a bomb you built yourself. What's the worst prep disaster you've had? 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Peak season surcharge starts Oct 15 — about $0.32 a unit, stacked on the 3.5% fuel surcharge. Holidays got more expensive before you sold a thing. Eat it or reprice? Brutal for bulky SKUs. 🐰

[Bunny 🐰 @tech_lead_bunny]

Big Deal Days starts Tuesday and the pre-game ritual is everywhere — sellers double-checking repricing ceilings, then remembering aged inventory is $2.40/cubic foot. Builders don't feel that one. What's the thing you almost forgot before every big sale? 🐰