Hi fellow tech enthusiasts,
I'm really keen to learn more about the Minimal Phone. Maybe buy the Minimal Phone 2, when available.
Has anyone in India used it.
What are the pros and cons? what features do you miss when using it?
Worth spending the money? did you use it as a primary phone or a secondary phone?
would appreciate all the thoughts on this.
Bit of a rant / cautionary tale for anyone running a Shopify store.
We built a Shopify store for a client back in 2023. Nice site, converted decently at launch. We handed it off, they took over.
Over the last year, we kept telling them: "you need to run some CRO, update your theme, watch how customers actually use the site." They didn't want to spend on it. Felt like an unnecessary cost. Fair enough — it's their store, their call.
Yesterday I got a message from them: "we haven't had any orders. it's showing different things on different browsers. Chrome vs Edge etc."
Logged into their admin to take a look. Theme was last saved in July 2025. Version 2.3.0 is available. Never updated. Not once. On top of that, they haven't touched their product descriptions, checkout settings, or mobile experience since we handed it off.
Here's the thing that hit me — they weren't being lazy. They genuinely believed a store "just works" once it's built. Like a bookshelf you assemble and forget.
But a Shopify store isn't a bookshelf. It's a machine that's constantly interacting with:
Neglect any machine for 2 years and something eventually breaks. In their case, a bunch of small things all broke at once, and now they're at zero sales for a week during peak season for their category.
The frustrating part isn't that they didn't hire us — we don't need every client to hire us for CRO. It's that they didn't do ANY maintenance themselves. No theme updates. No mobile testing. No checking analytics. Nothing.
Question for other store owners here: how often do you actually check on your store's tech health? Not sales, not ads — just the actual site. Do you update your theme when new versions drop? Do you test your own checkout on multiple browsers?
Curious what the real cadence is out there. My honest guess is most stores are one Shopify update away from something breaking silently.
I just came across this app called Terabox on the ios app store.
Does it actually provides free 1TB cloud space?
What’s the catch here? Worth relying with our data and files?
Really curious. Please share your experience with the app
Has anyone actually vibe coded a complete shopify app and put it on the app store?
Really curious to see if that is doable?
fire that disgruntled employee right away. keeping them around costs more than the severance.
most Shopify brands have no idea how much they’re losing to a 1% gap in conversion rate.
a store doing 20,000 visitors/month at 1.2% CR with $75 AOV = $18,000/month.
bump that to 2% CR = $30,000/month. $144,000/year. same traffic. same product. same store.
Almost every other Shopify agency on my feed: “mantle closed, we built a replacement”.
A lot of stores jump straight to spending more on Meta or Google Ads.
Sometimes improving conversion rate by even 0.3–0.5% produces a better ROI.
I built a free calculator that estimates the revenue impact based on your traffic, AOV and current conversion rate.
https://www.optise.io/cvr-calculator
No signup required.
If you have ideas for additional metrics, let me know.
what happened to stitch? is there anyone still using it?
I see a lot of posts on x and LI saying reddit is a place where confidence goes to die.
Is it really that folks are too brutal out here and mellow on other platforms.
Or am I missing something