Jonathan Moore
@Moore
I’m an entrepreneur, product designer and engineer. Head of Technology for http://kosas.com, founder of https://stylehatch.com & making things for @Shopify 🇺🇸
Squeezing every bit of value out of the $200/mo Claude Max 20x plan. Had I used the API to pay as I go... Total Cost: $1,261.25 Total Tokens: 444,462,608 Entries: 5,808

I would be surprised if this still happens in tech, but in 2008 my wife was a part of my 3 day interview with Adobe. Dinners with the team and combined chats with the hiring manager. She’s my super power behind the scenes. Got an epic offer but decided to start my agency.
Underrated advice…
It looks like @Shopify has quietly rolled out a Robots & Agent Policy for "buy-for-me" agents. My bet is that the partnership with OpenAI + Shopify is right around the corner. Checkout Kit will make it seamless to buy without leaving your chat. shopify.com/checkout-kit

Bot traffic in Shopify Analytics is yet again surging across various merchants. Have spoken with multiple the few days where 10%+ of sessions/users in Shopify are bots. This causes a loss of trust in any metric from Shopify and actually makes them unusable. That 8% we could…
TIL that Shopify does not exclude automated bot traffic from Session Analytics... all from same ASN (14618 AMAZON-AES) and all running a headless browser.
Yes, we're seeing this at scale across a handful of stores, it goes back as fast as 12-14 months depending on the store. We thought they were bots checking inventory levels but they go straight to the checkout with a URL param such as store.com/checkout/ITEM_…. They do not create…
On Shopify we are seeing a surge in bots adding items to cart, going to checkout with a fake email, opting in to marketing and abandoning. At times we see hundreds an hour impacting pixels, analytics and polluting Klaviyo. Anyone found a solution that helps?
I spent a few hours yesterday and today trying out Claude 4 Opus and I quickly racked up $85 in charges. But it might be worth it.

We shipped an <img sizes="auto" /> polyfill so it works in browsers outside of Chromium ☺️ github.com/Shopify/autosi… @yoavweiss 👏
I wonder how the 4.72x multiple might have changed if they held off for their Sephora launch this fall.
E.L.F. TO ACQUIRE RHODE BEAUTY IN $1B ACQUISITION Rhode had $212M in trailing twelve month sales as of the period ended 3/31/25 Putting the sales multiple at 4.72x more to come I'm in calls for a few hours
“Quality is a choice we can make every day.” @karrisaarinen
The modern world has made huge advances in knowledge, technology, and skill. We can build faster than ever. We know more than ever. Yet quality still feels so rare. So many things feel unfinished, broken, or forgettable. Why? → linear.app/blog/why-is-qu…