Axel Hardy
@fraxool
👨🏻💻 Solo app developer from France proudly #buildinginpublic within the Shopify ecosystem.
As a solo Shopify app developer, my earnings now exceed my dreams, but this success wasn't immediate. Over 4 years, I offered comprehensive website development services on Fiverr, often receiving just $5 per task. I was featured as the "developer of the week" on CodeCanyon but…
Absolutely thrilled about this! My BFS apps weren’t built with React, so I had to manually recreate every component with custom CSS to get approved. Being able to use actual Polaris components directly now is a huge leap forward! Can’t wait to dive into the integration!
Polaris Web Components are finally here! 🎉 It's hard to express my feelings, as I've been hoping for this for a long time. I prefer building Shopify apps with Rails. And as many other devs, I've been struggling with Polaris being React only framework. Struggled so much, that…
Almost done fully integrating Polaris web components into my newest app, huge thanks to whoever worked on it at @ShopifyDevs! A few components are still missing, but overall it’s super easy to use, and the UI looks amazing now. Can’t wait to share once it’s live in prod!
While working on my spouse’s store, we installed several popular apps and I’ve seen a few still going against TOS with this. I am not the type to report other devs, but makes me a bit sad, especially when it’s apps with hundreds or even thousands of reviews… Not worth it IMO 🥲
Yo fellow @shopifydevs. I personally believe watermarking violates the app dev TOS and should not be allowed. But, I could be completely wrong here. I often am. 🤣 Let me know what you think. Should you be able to force support interactions to remove a brand or watermark?
I’m struggling to identify an occasional issue that some users are reporting on my spouse’s Shopify store. The interface appears to “shake” on certain phones. I’ve never been able to reproduce it myself but several users have reported it, some even recorded a video (see below) 🧐
I started integrating Polaris Web Components into one of my apps, and it's fantastic. Since my apps aren't React-based, I previously had to redesign every component to meet the BFS requirements. Now, it's so much easier. Huge thanks to @ShopifyDevs for making this possible!
Got this too. Almost had a heart attack reading the title and content of the email. Thanks Shopify 🫠 Glad to see a lot of devs received it too in the end which probably means it’s a new internal automated system that was (wrongly?) triggered.
Well this is a new one. Of course our app is doing API requests lol.
Has this happened to any other dev? One of my merchants has a store that's been sending the orders_paid webhook with a delay of around 30 minutes (this started about an hour ago). As far as I can tell, no other merchants are affected 🤔 @ShopifyDevs
Worst customer in 5 years. They think my app charged them twice (it can’t). Called me a scammer. Told them to uninstall and even offered a refund. 1-star review probably incoming : so frustrating.
Getting an updated review notification always brings a bit of stress - but when it’s simply a merchant saying they’re still super happy with the app after a year, it’s the best feeling!
Lost respectively 30% & 50% of hard-earned, genuine reviews on 2 apps—likely from inactive stores. Seen some apps lose 80%+. It stings, but I still trust Shopify is making the right long-term calls. Let’s see how things shape up moving forward…
Archived reviews don’t show up in the total review count, but they’re still somewhat visible through a new link at the bottom of the reviews section
Seeing the review count go down on two of my apps right now. Not gonna lie, it’s a bit depressing refreshing the page and watching the number drop in real time…
"There are people privately panicking way more than you right now because they've been playing on the wrong side of the tracks for a long time" Exactly right and I always said it. Bad actors will face karma at some point and maybe it’s the day…
I'm fully prepared to get flamed here. Sometimes doing the right thing can be super fucking messy. It gets even messier when it has to be done at tremendous scale, is something people care *a lot* about, and even MORE so when there's truly no way for it to be done perfectly.…
We’re all in the same boat at least. Hopefully the algorithm can truly separate honest reviews from the weird or fake ones. If it helps clean up the app store and reduce bad actors, that’s a win for everyone.
Starting today, we're archiving a large backlog of outdated, unhelpful, and untrusted reviews from the Shopify App Store. We're serious about trust and that means dealing with fake reviews - both positive ones that unfairly boost rankings, and negative ones that do the opposite.…
Loved seeing all your tweets about the Wide Event! I couldn’t make it this time, and I’ll be missing Shopify Editions too this year 😭 — but if both are back next year, I’ll do my best to be there. Can’t wait to finally meet you all!