Alexander Hupfer
@alexanderhupfer
Building https://www.fusionmetrics.io for Shopify Partners. Bootstrapped and acquired Shopify apps. Daily posts about Shopify dev.
Unpopular opinion: Chasing the latest Shopify app trends can hurt your business. Why? • Oversaturated niches • Higher development costs • Shorter lifecycle Instead, focus on: • Solving persistent merchant pain points • Excellent customer service • Continuous improvement…
I started dipping my toes into storefront integrations, and knowing that your infra needs to able to handle the scale is both terrifying and exciting
I watched Tripple Whale's Moby video and it's kind of the thing that I would Sidekick envision to be capable of (at least for Shopify Plus). x.com/ay_orbach/stat…
Introducing Moby. A hyper-intelligent agent suite that can add $100,000+ of revenue to any 7-figure brand. Bold claim, I know. Let's see it in action:
Did you ever load-test your app? How did you do it and what was the conclusion. Asking for a friend
Day four of Techtonic talk releases, and four new talks for you to settle in to. We're covering the full funnel from paid acquisition across channels to retention through CX – plus a perpetual fan favourite. 🎤 Shopify ads: tactics you'll actually use with @eternerd 🎤 Beyond…
Ok Shopify, please just tell us what to build for POS, you know, like you did with bundles apps.
Intend to start side projects just to realize that building Shopify apps is still the best use of time.
I just watched a demo of Google Analytics's MCP server project. I think it's a no brainer to add this to Sidekick.
Would you rather own an app doing 2k MRR growing at 10% MoM or 10k MRR flat and why?
Review services have now switched from email to in-app. Definitely a step up on the annoying scale.
If you need a honest critique of something (e.g. app store listing) use Grok 4 and tell it not to hold back. Same context same prompt: Gemini / ChatGPT: This is world class, just fix these typos. Grok 4: This is terrible and here is why....
If your app has more features than paying customers you are doing it wrong - no offense