Vinodh

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[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@beerud Hi a huge fan and customer at Gupshup. What’s the best way to reach you. We are not happy with a few changes that’s being implemented.

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@hipreetam93 Hi Preetam, Possible to follow me? So that I can DM you?

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@kinngh Can you help us here? https://t.co/asI9sPGyhY

[Preetam Nath @hipreetam93]

Requesting the folks at Shopify to please step in and help figure things out.

We too have received the trademark notice. And the deadline to fix it is 6 days away.

Otherwise, our app will be delisted from the Shopify app store. Just like that. After 5 years of being on the app store and complying with every request or warning or mildly threatening email about fixing something "or else".

Quite a violent way to communicate, I feel. Like this is the best a multi billion corporation can do?

It does not make any sense @harleyf @ShopifyDevs since the app store is full of apps with "Facebook" and "Instagram" in their app titles and descriptions.

Meta is forcing "WhatsApp" named apps to remove the word because they have launched their own WhatsApp app for Shopify.

When a big guy flexes, we small people don't have any way out.

Except if another big guy ( looking at you @Shopify @tobi ) is there to stand-up and meditate and come up with a more peaceful and decent way to go about it.

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

Trying to raise awareness, it feels like Apple and Basecamp issue on a different layer. Sad to see all small developers getting impacted on this.

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@dhh We are a app developer of a Shopify app integrating with WhatsApp and recently Meta launched a WhatsApp app there and enforcing trade mark to not use WhatsApp in the name any where which eventually kills all apps built for them. https://t.co/asI9sPGyhY

[Preetam Nath @hipreetam93]

Requesting the folks at Shopify to please step in and help figure things out.

We too have received the trademark notice. And the deadline to fix it is 6 days away.

Otherwise, our app will be delisted from the Shopify app store. Just like that. After 5 years of being on the app store and complying with every request or warning or mildly threatening email about fixing something "or else".

Quite a violent way to communicate, I feel. Like this is the best a multi billion corporation can do?

It does not make any sense @harleyf @ShopifyDevs since the app store is full of apps with "Facebook" and "Instagram" in their app titles and descriptions.

Meta is forcing "WhatsApp" named apps to remove the word because they have launched their own WhatsApp app for Shopify.

When a big guy flexes, we small people don't have any way out.

Except if another big guy ( looking at you @Shopify @tobi ) is there to stand-up and meditate and come up with a more peaceful and decent way to go about it.

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@levelsio This is the tweet that explains the issue. This is similar to how Apple blocked Basecamp.

https://t.co/asI9sPGyhY

[Preetam Nath @hipreetam93]

Requesting the folks at Shopify to please step in and help figure things out.

We too have received the trademark notice. And the deadline to fix it is 6 days away.

Otherwise, our app will be delisted from the Shopify app store. Just like that. After 5 years of being on the app store and complying with every request or warning or mildly threatening email about fixing something "or else".

Quite a violent way to communicate, I feel. Like this is the best a multi billion corporation can do?

It does not make any sense @harleyf @ShopifyDevs since the app store is full of apps with "Facebook" and "Instagram" in their app titles and descriptions.

Meta is forcing "WhatsApp" named apps to remove the word because they have launched their own WhatsApp app for Shopify.

When a big guy flexes, we small people don't have any way out.

Except if another big guy ( looking at you @Shopify @tobi ) is there to stand-up and meditate and come up with a more peaceful and decent way to go about it.

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

Can you help?

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@levelsio Hi, we are a app developer of a Shopify app integrating with WhatsApp and recently Meta launched a WhatsApp app there and enforcing trade mark to not use WhatsApp in the name any where which eventually kills all apps built for them. Trying to raise awareness.

[Preetam Nath @hipreetam93]

Requesting the folks at Shopify to please step in and help figure things out.

We too have received the trademark notice. And the deadline to fix it is 6 days away.

Otherwise, our app will be delisted from the Shopify app store. Just like that. After 5 years of being on the app store and complying with every request or warning or mildly threatening email about fixing something "or else".

Quite a violent way to communicate, I feel. Like this is the best a multi billion corporation can do?

It does not make any sense @harleyf @ShopifyDevs since the app store is full of apps with "Facebook" and "Instagram" in their app titles and descriptions.

Meta is forcing "WhatsApp" named apps to remove the word because they have launched their own WhatsApp app for Shopify.

When a big guy flexes, we small people don't have any way out.

Except if another big guy ( looking at you @Shopify @tobi ) is there to stand-up and meditate and come up with a more peaceful and decent way to go about it.

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@harleyf We have been building a WhatsApp Shopify app for the last 4 years and we love Shopify for providing the opportunity. The app is built only to for WhatsApp, now we received a trademark notice to remove all WhatsApp reference. How would merchants discover us? Kindly help

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@safwanknowstech @ShopifyDevs @Shopify @liam_at_shopify @hashemito @ShopifySupport Was this resolved?

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

Any guideline or ideas would really help to navigate this since it can complete hurt discovery of so many apps built for shopify

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@harleyf We have been building a WhatsApp Shopify app for the last 4 years and we love Shopify for providing the opportunity. The app is built only to support WhatsApp, now we received a trademark notice to remove all WhatsApp reference. How would merchants discover us?

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@tobi A huge fan. We have been building a WhatsApp Shopify app for the last 4 years and we love Shopify for providing the opportunity. The app is built only to support WhatsApp, now we received a trademark notice to remove all WhatsApp reference. How would merchant discover us?

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@matthewsmith @sivaram636 @kurtinc @denniscessan @hsivar20 @celispj @iamitporwal @cargix1 @heysandy801 @DsMatie Yeah, they have been enforcing this from last week.

[Erikas Mališauskas @malisauskasLT]

All of our apps lost Built for Shopify status a week ago. Our rankings tanked. We panicked - we got no warnings, no email about any policy violation or anything and we still meet all BFS technical criteria.

I talked with other founders and they had similar experience before due to some error on Shopify governance team side. It's very frustrating as we're left in the dark with no information how to proceed to get our BFS back.

Trying to get hold of @ShopifyDevs governance team to fix this, would appreciate if you could bump this post with like/comment.

After all, there's some upside: our growth is sustained, and we still receive nearly the same number of installs.

cc @liam_at_shopify @tobi @harleyf

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@sivaram636 @tobi @ShopifyDevs @harleyf @harleyf a huge fan can you kindly help us here?

[sivaram💻 @sivaram636]

We have been building WhatsApp integration for Shopify for the last 5 years due to a Trademark notice from Meta or its representative, Shopify requires us not use “WhatsApp” even as a description of our app.The whole Shopify App is built for WhatsApp. @tobi @ShopifyDevs @harleyf

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@mechellecarpio Hello, it was nice connect during Shop quest. What’s the best way to reach you?

[Vinodh @vinodhdavid]

@jontybrook @cursor_ai What are you building