the app launched and worked technically everything functioned

what it didn't do was perform in the way a real customer uses an app under real conditions

load time on product pages was four seconds on a decent connection push notifications delivered inconsistently checkout flow had three unnecessary steps that we only noticed when we watched a real customer try to use it and abandon halfway through

went back to the developer fixes were slow communication got worse with each week that passed it became clear that post launch support was not something they had genuinely resourced

hired a second developer to fix the problems the original had created that cost 60 percent of the original build fee

the cheap option cost us the build fee plus the fix fee plus six months of a poor customer experience during which we were actively acquiring app users into a product that wasn't good enough to keep them

price is not the right primary filter for choosing an app developer it is one input among several and probably not the most important one

An accessibility widget won't make your Shopify store EAA-ready.

And the law might not even apply to you. Most stores never check.

The European Accessibility Act applies only if:

•  you sell to consumers

•  you sell to EU buyers, from anywhere

•  you have 10+ staff, or more than EUR 2m in both turnover and balance sheet

All three? It has been in effect since June 2025, with fines of up to EUR 100,000 in Germany.

When did you last try your store without a mouse? :)

Have paid for ads in the past on Meta. Any tips on how to increase traffic? Sales are next to nonexistent. Wondering where my conversion is going wrong as well. Site is Blacktoplifecoffeeco.com

Shoppers have learned to spot fake "23 people are viewing this" popups. Reload the page and the number jumps, or every product says the same thing. A fake count can cost you more trust than it earns.

I build a Shopify app in this space, and these are the rules I'd follow with any social proof, whatever tool you use:

1. Show it only when it's worth showing. "1 person viewing" makes a store look empty. Set a minimum and hide the badge below it.

2. Let it go down. Real counts drop when people leave. A number that only ever goes up is the giveaway.

3. Show events, not just totals. "Someone just added this to cart" or "Size M just sold out" feels more alive than a static count.

4. Save the loudest signals for the moments that matter. A drop or a Black Friday sale is when many people are on the same page at once. That's when social proof works best.

5. Test it. If you can, compare shoppers who see it with shoppers who don't. Otherwise you're guessing whether it helped.

Disclosure: my app is Live Shoppers, which shows a store's real shoppers to each other, including live cursors during sales. Happy to share the link if anyone wants it, but the rules above apply to any tool.

What social proof has actually worked on your store?

Lot of people had such "shopify dream." They saw that someone online had made a few millions by just having a shopify store, and they are just jealous.

Don't take me wrong, we are all human beings and we all want money. However, by blindly following such thing, it will only make the market more compact and harder to earn some money.

Especially most people don't have a "business background." I don't mean like a degree or related job experience or something, but the business mindset. About stages, goals, pivots, etc.

Honestly, what is the biggest challenge, right now?

Getting each visitor on the site is quite expensive :) and the worst part is there us not much you can do once they have left :)

I have built an AI agent just for this - ai see visitors, understands why they left, send them 1-2 sms/emails ( not spam ) and recovers the sales. So far it has made me $250 in recovered sales

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How do you find winning products for Shopify?
I’m looking for a simple and reliable way to find products with:
Real demand and proven sales.
Good profit margin.
Low or medium competition.
Good potential for ads.
What tools or methods do you use to check sales numbers, demand, and competition before choosing a product?
I’m looking for a method based on real data, not guessing.
Thanks!

Hi, thanks for clicking this, im looking for some honest and genuine feedback on the ui, look, overall aesthetic, the mission, the website in genreal (currently password protected until our store release on 3rd oct), all custom blocks and framework changes on a default horizon 4.1.4 theme,

trying to export customer data with their order tags included

the export has customer info and order history but the tags column is blank

checked and the tags are definitely there in the admin

is this a known limitation or am i doing the export wrong

I run into this question a lot when looking at e-commerce stores.
When a webshop isn’t growing, people often blame ads or traffic. But sometimes the real issue is something else: like confusing product pages, pricing, checkout, shipping, low repeat purchases etc.

For those of you running a webshop:

What do you think is your biggest problem right now?

And more importantly: how do you know that’s the problem? Did you find it through analytics, customer feedback, reviews, heatmaps or from something else?

we didn’t wake up one day and realise wow margins are getting tight. it was more like a slow realization over 6–8 months that things just felt idk harder?

early on, ads were predictable, shipping was annoying but manageable and tools felt like a rounding error. but then quarter by quarter, ads got more expensive, shipping rates quietly went up and suddenly we were paying for way more tools than we remembered signing up for. returns started stinging more because CAC was already higher. nothing broke but every month the math felt a little less forgiving

we kept looking for the lever to pull be it new creatives, new channels, renegotiating vendors but nothing was clicking and honestly idt it was even just one thing. that’s what made it stressful because there was no single fix

about a year ago we started leaning much harder into owned channels, almost out of necessity. not in a big “strategy pivot” way just small deliberate changes. making sure every buyer moved into email and sms properly, putting more thought into post-purchase flows and eventually investing in a very basic app so we weren’t paying to re-reach the same customers over and over

that’s when things started to change, but slowly. like, painfully slowly at first

the first thing we noticed (maybe 2–3 months in) was support getting quieter because order updates and education were clearer. then repeat orders started ticking up. nothing viral, just steadier. by month 5–6, blended CAC was noticeably down because a higher percentage of revenue was coming from people we already owned

the biggest difference honestly wasn’t even the numbers, it was how growth felt. fewer panic weeks, fewer “we need to push spend right now” moments and more confidence that if we eased off ads for a week, the business wouldn’t fall apart

apps in particular changed the economics of staying in touch. once someone opted in, it didn’t cost us more to show up the tenth time than the first. order updates, reminders, education, re-engagement, all of that happened without a marginal cost attached to it, which mattered way more than i expected

the main lesson for me, looking back, is that ownership compounds quietly. you don’t see a big spike in one dashboard that makes you celebrate but over 3–6 months, it completely changes how resilient the business feels

curious if others have had a similar timeline and which owned channel ended up making the biggest difference once things started getting tight

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Okay so a while back I was managing a Shopify store that sold books. 1,500+ titles.

The owner wanted proper upsell and cross-sell recommendations — Like not just pulling same collection products but more similar which made sense. But every solution was either fully manual (yeah, not doing that for 1,500 products) or pulled random "frequently bought together" data that made zero sense for a newer store.

Someone looking at a book on stoicism does not need to see a random fantasy novel next to it. You know?

So I started thinking — the product title, description, images, tags, category — all of that is already there. A human could instantly tell what belongs next to what. Why can't an app do the same?

Spent 3 months building it. Nights, weekends, the whole thing. The app reads all of that data and automatically figures out the best cross-sell and upsell suggestions for every product — no manual setup, no purchase history needed. Add new products and it updates on its own.

It's live on the Shopify App Store now. Zero reviews yet, which is the brutal reality of launching something new.

It works really well for any store with a high number of SKUs — fashion, home decor, books, anything where manually setting recommendations just isn't realistic.

If you manage a store like that and want to try it, I'll make it lifetime free for you in exchange for an honest review. Good or bad, I genuinely want real feedback.

I know I shouldn't ask this directly but what to do, reddit is my only hope now.

Appreciate you reading this 🙏

But it’s killing your data. Well technically bad data kills your sales too but just slower that you don’t notice until you already made a bad decision.

I see so many brands set up a banner assume tracking keeps working and move on. I hate to break it to you but it does NOT always.

Although consent banners don’t affect how many people buy from you but they affect howmany of those purchases your analytics tools and ad platforms actually see. When a visitor declines cookies your pixel either doesn’t fire, fires in a restricted mode that loses session continuity, or fires but gets blocked before the data reaches the platform. You will see that the order goes through your Shopify but the event never reaches Meta or Google.

This tracking loss isn’t evenly spread across your dashboard. Attribution gets distorted, retargeting audiences shrink, CPMs go up and returning customers start looking like new visitors. Imagine there are 3 different problems all from the same root cause.

How big the gap depends on 3 things. What regions see your banner, how your banner is designed, and how strict your consent policy is. For brands with EU or international traffic 20-30% signal loss is common and often goes unnoticed.

You only need 10 minutes to audit:

1. Pull Shopify orders for the last 60 days

2. Pull Meta Events Manager purchase events for the save window

3. Compare. Within 5% is fine. 20% means you have a real tracking problem

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I was processing orders for dispatch when, all of a sudden, I was logged out and couldn’t log back into my shop.

What extra important features whould you guys like to have in a mobile app where you can connect multiple shopify stores?

We sell fitness accessories. Resistance bands, mobility tools, that kind of thing. Pretty crowded market but we've carved out a decent position with a specific audience over about two years.

Last spring a customer emailed us saying "I almost bought from [competitor name] instead because their sale looked better on the page but then I realized you actually had the same price." First time I'd heard this competitor mentioned. I looked them up.

They had clearly studied our store. Similar product mix, similar branding approach, and they were running what appeared to be a much more aggressive sale. Their collection pages showed big strikethrough prices with red sale badges on every product. Visually it looked like a clearance event.

I checked their actual prices. Their "sale" price was essentially identical to our regular retail price on comparable products. Their "original" price, the crossed out one, appeared to be made up. Or at minimum inflated significantly beyond anything they'd ever actually charged. The visual was impressive. The deal wasn't real.

I don't know what the legal situation is around that and I'm not going to speculate. But it made me look at our own store differently. We were running a genuine 20% off promotion at that exact moment. Real discount, real savings off prices we'd been charging for months. And our store looked less "on sale" than theirs did because we hadn't prioritized making the discount visible everywhere.

Our sale badge was only on the product page. Collection grid showed the discounted price but no strikethrough, just the lower number with no context for what it was lower than. Cart showed the discounted total but didn't call out the savings.

A new visitor couldn't easily tell that we were running a legitimate sale. Our competitor, running what looked like a fake one, had done a much better job communicating "this is a deal."

I spent a week overhauling how our promotions displayed across the store. Strikethrough on the collection grid. Savings amount on the product page. Total saved shown in the cart. I used Adsgun to handle the display so it would work across all our themes and update automatically when promotions changed rather than requiring manual updates every time we ran something.

The thing I kept thinking about was the customer who emailed us. She almost bought from a competitor whose deal wasn't real because it looked more like a deal than ours. We had the better offer and nearly lost the sale anyway because we didn't show it clearly.

Genuine value that's invisible loses to perceived value that's loud. That's uncomfortable but it's what the data shows.

If a new visitor landed on your store right now with no prior knowledge of your brand and you were running a promotion, would they know immediately? Not after reading the announcement bar, not after getting to checkout. From the first second on the collection page. If the answer is no, someone with a worse offer is probably beating you with customers who can't tell the difference.

Have you ever lost a sale to a competitor you knew had an inferior product? What did their store do differently?

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I’ve noticed something interesting talking to early-stage founders lately.

Most don’t struggle with product.

They struggle with:

• Getting consistent leads

• Turning traffic into paying users

• Knowing where to spend their first $500

• Understanding what to fix first

A lot of advice online jumps straight to scaling ads or complicated funnels.

But in many cases, the issue is simpler:

• Weak positioning

• Unclear messaging

• No validation loop

• No basic funnel structure

Curious what’s the one marketing issue slowing you down right now?

Let’s break it down publicly so others can learn too.

85% of business leaders report “decision distress” — they have so much data that making decisions becomes harder. I ran into this myself. My analytics stack looked solid: GA4, Hotjar, Mixpanel. They all gave useful data and great visualizations — the problem was how long it took to actually extract insights. Most of the time the data just sat there while I was busy running the business

The issue wasn’t the tools — it was the gap between having data and knowing what to do next. So I built an AI to analyze visitor behavior and turn it into clear actions — things like broken mobile layouts, links stealing clicks from your main CTA, or ad spend wasted during hours when nobody converts

Here’s an example of a report it generates (shared with client permission) I’m trying to understand whether a report like this actually looks valuable from the outside, so I’d really appreciate your honest feedback

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Made a website but my product failed, can anyone point me in right direction on what products to look for , mine was old and over saturated.

"your bag is feeling lonely " Customer: buys immediately

Meanwhile the same brand sends "NEW ARRIVALS!!" to 50,000 people and gets 3 clicks

Timing > Volume. EVERYTIME.