u/gautamrudani

Small win, but it genuinely made my week.

I've been building a Shopify SEO app (MetaGenius: AI SEO & Alt Text — helps merchants auto-generate meta titles, descriptions, alt text, etc.) and growth has been painfully slow. No ads, no influencer deals, just the app sitting on the App Store.

This past week: 5 new installs, all organic. And one of them converted to a paid Pro plan.

I know that sounds tiny. But I've been grinding on this thing solo, and seeing strangers find it, install it, and actually pay for it without me doing anything to push them there... that feeling hits different.

No Shopify ads. No paid promotions. Pure organic.

If you're building a Shopify app and feeling like nothing is happening — keep going. The App Store does eventually work. SEO on your own listing matters. Reviews matter. The compounding is just slow at first.

To anyone who's further along: what was the moment growth started feeling real for you?

I have a live Shopify app approved on the Shopify App Store. It currently has 16 installs.

I’m thinking of selling it because I don’t have enough time to grow it properly.

Has anyone here sold a Shopify app before? How do you value an early-stage app, and where can I find serious buyers?

Any advice would be helpful.

I've been doing freelance Shopify dev work for a while and kept seeing merchants with 200+ products and completely blank meta tags and alt text. Built an app to solve it MetaGenius: AI SEO & Alt Text (live on the App Store, free tier available).

Tech stack is Node/Express, Prisma/SQLite, hosted on a VPS with PM2 + Nginx. Getting decent installs but sitting at 0 reviews which is absolutely killing conversions.

Curious how other app devs here tackled this early stage. Did you reach out to users directly? In-app prompts? Something else entirely?

Been doing freelance Shopify dev for a while and kept seeing the same problem stores with 200+ products and blank meta tags, no alt text, zero SEO basically. So I built an app to fix it.

Started as just an AI meta tag generator but it grew into a full SEO suite alt text, schema markup, SEO audit with auto-fix, redirects, blog writer. It's called MetaGenius: AI SEO & Alt Text, live on the App Store with a free tier.

Getting installs but that "0 reviews" is killing me. Pricing is Free / $9.99 / $29.99 and I'm not sure if I'm giving away too much on free.

Anyone else struggling with the first reviews problem? What actually worked for you early on?