u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — reddlx

Day 1 uninstalls are killing me (so I built a native AI widget for App Bridge)

Hey guys, tbh I’ve been looking at my uninstall data lately and it’s depressing.

Most merchants install the app, get stuck on the configuration page, and just delete it 10 mins later. They don't even bother opening a support ticket.

And when they DO ask for help, it’s the same basic setup questions over and over. I can't be awake at 3 AM answering webhook questions manually.

I looked into using generic AI chatbots to handle it, but they look super cheap inside the Shopify iframe and merchants don't trust them.

So I built a prototype to scratch my own itch. It’s called Fixt AI. It sits right in the App Bridge, uses exact Shopify Polaris UI so it looks native, reads what page the merchant is stuck on, and gives them the fix straight from my docs. No ugly floating bubbles.

I recorded a quick 45-second demo of what it looks like find video below 👇

Honestly, I'm just trying to validate this before I spend the next month coding the backend. Would you guys actually pay like $50/mo to offload these dumb setup tickets?

Let me know if this is trash or actually useful.

u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — 4 days ago

▲ 0 r/ShopifyAppDev

How are you guys displaying App Store reviews on your external landing pages? (I built a bypass for the missing API)

We all know the most annoying limitation of the Shopify App Store: there is absolutely no API to export our own reviews.

If you are running paid ads or driving cold traffic to an external landing page, you need social proof to convert. But right now, it seems like we are all stuck doing one of two things:

Manual Screenshots: Taking screenshots of 5-star reviews and hardcoding them into our Webflow/React sites. The second you get a new review, the site is out of date.

Generic Tools (Senja/Testimonial): Paying $30/mo for a generic widget, but because they don't natively support Shopify, you still have to install a Chrome extension and manually "clip" every single new review you get.

I got sick of my landing page being outdated, so I built a bypass.

I wrote a backend scraper that monitors your Shopify App Store listing. You drop one line of embed code on your external landing page, and my backend automatically catches your new 5-star reviews and pushes them to the widget in real-time.

If Shopify delays a review or deletes a fake one, the widget syncs automatically. No Chrome extensions, no manual data entry. You set it up once.

I built the core engine for my own apps, but I want to see if the rest of the community actually needs this before I polish the UI and package it up (probably for around $15/mo).

Does anyone else with an external marketing site hate dealing with this? Drop a comment if you want me to send you the demo link to see how it looks.

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u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — 7 days ago

▲ 1 r/shopifyDev

How are you guys displaying App Store reviews on your external landing pages? (I built a bypass for the missing API)

We all know the most annoying limitation of the Shopify App Store: there is absolutely no API to export our own reviews.

If you are running paid ads or driving cold traffic to an external landing page, you need social proof to convert. But right now, it seems like we are all stuck doing one of two things:

- Manual Screenshots: Taking screenshots of 5-star reviews and hardcoding them into our Webflow/React sites. The second you get a new review, the site is out of date.

- Generic Tools (Senja/Testimonial): Paying $30/mo for a generic widget, but because they don't natively support Shopify, you still have to install a Chrome extension and manually "clip" every single new review you get.

I got sick of my landing page being outdated, so I built a bypass.

If Shopify delays a review or deletes a fake one, the widget syncs automatically. No Chrome extensions, no manual data entry. You set it up once.

I built the core engine for my own apps, but I want to see if the rest of the community actually needs this before I polish the UI and package it up (probably for around $15/mo).

Does anyone else with an external marketing site hate dealing with this? Drop a comment if you want me to send you the demo link to see how it looks.

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u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — 7 days ago

▲ 1 r/ShopifyAppDev+1 crossposts

The Partner Dashboard is terrible for analyzing reviews. So I built a tool to fix it (and scraped 10 real apps to prove it works).

Hey everyone,

I was talking to some Shopify devs recently and realized we're all making the same mistake: wasting ~3 hours a week manually copying App Store reviews into spreadsheets, just trying to guess what merchants want us to build next.

It's a massive waste of time. So I built an MVP to automate it called Reqboard.

To prove it actually works, I ran 10 real Shopify apps through my scraper.

Instead of a giant wall of text, the dashboard gives you:

- Grouped Requests: It auto-deduplicates feedback. (e.g., "12 merchants asked for X feature").

- One Searchable Hub: Search your entire history of reviews instantly.

- Churn & Quick Wins: Catches frustrated users before they uninstall and highlights easy bugs.

- Fake Review Detection: Flags review-farm patterns so you can report competitor sabotage.

(In-app messaging to reviewers is coming next).

Honestly, building solo is a grind. Seeing people poke around the live demos and join the waitlist is the exact motivation I need to finish coding the beta.

I don't want to break the self-promo rules by posting the link here, but if you want to see the live data for those 10 apps or grab a waitlist spot, just drop a comment or shoot me a DM and I’ll send you the link!

Would love to hear what you guys think, or if you want me to run your app through the scraper next!

u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — 9 days ago

▲ 1 r/ShopifyAppDev

Do you get feature requests buried in your App Store reviews?

Quick question for Shopify app developers.

I just went through reviews of a few

popular Shopify apps and almost every

3 star review has a hidden feature request

buried inside it.

"Great app but wish it had bulk export"

"Would be 5 stars if you added CSV download"

"Good but missing automatic discounts"

These developers have no idea if that

review came from a merchant paying

$49/month on their Pro plan or someone

on their free plan.

A Pro merchant asking for bulk export

is completely different from a free

user asking for the same thing.

One is your revenue. One is not.

Right now are you manually reading

every review trying to find feature

requests? And do you know which of

your paying merchants wrote them?

I am building something specifically

for this problem. Want to understand

if this is actually painful for you

before I build anything.

Honest answer even if you say

"I don't care about this at all"

is genuinely helpful.

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u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — 2 months ago

▲ 1 r/shopifyDev

Do you get feature requests buried in your App Store reviews?

Quick question for Shopify app developers.

I just went through reviews of a few

popular Shopify apps and almost every

3 star review has a hidden feature request

buried inside it.

"Great app but wish it had bulk export"

"Would be 5 stars if you added CSV download"

"Good but missing automatic discounts"

These developers have no idea if that

review came from a merchant paying

$49/month on their Pro plan or someone

on their free plan.

A Pro merchant asking for bulk export

is completely different from a free

user asking for the same thing.

One is your revenue. One is not.

Right now are you manually reading

every review trying to find feature

requests? And do you know which of

your paying merchants wrote them?

I am building something specifically

for this problem. Want to understand

if this is actually painful for you

before I build anything.

Honest answer even if you say

"I don't care about this at all"

is genuinely helpful.

reddit.com

u/Beginning-Ninja3778 — 2 months ago