I audited a friend's Shopify store and discovered several tracking issues before he spent more on ads.
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I audited a friend's Shopify store and discovered several tracking issues before he spent more on ads.

A friend asked me to audit his Shopify store before increasing his ad budget. What looked like a working setup turned out to have several tracking issues that could affect attribution and ad optimization.

I've shared the complete walkthrough here. If you'd like to read it, click here

How did you implement tracking to get more ROAS?

u/pknerd — 4 hours ago

How confident are you that your ad platforms are actually receiving complete conversion data?

A friend asked me to look at his Shopify store because his Meta ads weren't producing the results he expected.

I assumed I'd find a simple tracking issue, but after digging in, I found several things that surprised me:

  • Browser and server events weren't being deduplicated properly.
  • Event Match Quality could be improved.
  • Some ecommerce events weren't as complete as they could be.
  • Shopify's Customer Events sandbox made debugging more challenging than I expected.

It made me wonder how many stores are making advertising decisions based on incomplete tracking data.

For those managing Shopify stores:

Are you using Shopify's built-in integrations?

  • GTM?
  • Server-side GTM?
  • Meta CAPI?
  • You don't know about this at all?

Looking forward!

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u/pknerd — 5 hours ago

I audited a friend's Shopify store before he spent more on Meta ads. Here are a few tracking issues that surprised me.

A friend asked me to look at his Shopify store because his Meta ads weren't producing the results he expected.

I assumed I'd find a simple tracking issue, but after digging in, I found several things that surprised me:

  • Browser and server events weren't being deduplicated properly.
  • Event Match Quality could be improved.
  • Some ecommerce events weren't as complete as they could be.
  • Shopify's Customer Events sandbox made debugging more challenging than I expected.

It made me wonder how many stores are making advertising decisions based on incomplete tracking data.

For those managing Shopify stores:

Are you using Shopify's built-in integrations?

  • GTM?
  • Server-side GTM?
  • Meta CAPI?
  • You don't know about this at all?

Have you ever audited your tracking and found something unexpected?

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u/pknerd — 5 hours ago

Image Model for M2 Macbook 16GB

Will you guys suggest an Ollama-based image model to generate realistic images? Something like what Ideogram offers.

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u/pknerd — 7 days ago

Instagram "Private Replies" API is not rendering button anymore

I am working on an n8n workflow where, on commenting on certain keywords, like "INTERESTED," sends a DM to the person who made a comment. Earlier it was working a couple of months back but not anymore and now it renders like this.

I was sending this payload:

{
"recipient": {
"comment_id": "{{ $('Webhook').item.json.body.entry[0].changes[0].value.id }}"
},
"message": {
"attachment": {
"type": "template",
"payload": {
"template_type": "generic",
"elements": [
{
"title": "{{ $('Extract Message and Type').item.json.messageText }}",
"buttons": [
{
"type": "web_url",
"url": "{{ $('Extract Message and Type').item.json.messageURL }}",
"title": "Click Here"
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
}
u/pknerd — 8 days ago
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I just wanted to memorize a short prayer. It turned into a side project.

It was all about memorizing a short Arabic prayer.

A friend of mine had recommended to me an Arabic prayer that was short but not short enough that I could memorize it easily. Hence, I need some way to memorize it. Usually, I find it easy to memorize something if I keep listening to it. So I started looking for an app for that purpose that could do what I was looking for.

I found a few, but they all seemed surprisingly complicated. Most required setting loop points (A-B repeat), tweaking playback controls, or learning features I simply didn’t need. As a software developer, I eventually figured them out, but I kept thinking, “If this feels confusing to me, what about everyone else?” The issue was that I found out about the app and figured out how it works, but I needed a desktop version because I wanted to memorize while working at the office, rather than roaming around. I eventually started looking for such web apps, but there was no such thing I was looking for that did not require signing in or sharing my files with a server.

That made me wonder…

What if there was a website where you could simply:

  • Record your voice (or upload an audio file)
  • Press play
  • It loops forever.

No accounts. No downloads. No A-B markets and no settings.

I also wanted it to be privacy-friendly. After some research, I realized modern browsers can handle everything locally, so nothing ever needs to be uploaded to a server. Your recording or audio file never leaves your device.

It’s a very small project, but I think it could be useful for people memorizing prayers, language vocabulary, speeches, affirmations, meditations, sales scripts, and thus anything else that benefits from repetition.

I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially if you think there’s something that could make it even simpler.

Visit LoopMyAudio

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u/pknerd — 12 days ago

Instagram Live app with App-Review

I am working on a custom solution that is based on Insta API.

If I don't go for App Review option, will it still work?

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u/pknerd — 14 days ago

So How can I sort this thing out?

Last year, in the company I work at, I made a tool using the Zendesk ticket data with the help of AI to find out why a certain ticket was not completed in due time. I was able to do it because I knew the problem they were facing.

Now, I know that the problem my company faced is being faced by almost all companies that deal in customer support tickets, and they're facing other issues as well.

I discussed this with my former colleague, who was at that time working in a government agency/. He shared some sample tickets with me in both Arabic and English that also included attachments of screenshots sent by their customers of problems they were facing(login not working, some random payment error, etc). I sent the small corpus of data to AI with a certain prompt, the categories they used, and it almost categorized them in a few minutes. They get 400+ Level 1 tickets in a day and spend hours opening each ticket, reading it, and then assigning a tag. That project could not materialize as they don't allow 3rd party models and other issues.

Now, I know CS tickets are a burning problem, but I could not pursue it further because I did not have a working demo of such tools. I don't have because I don't have a ticket corpus available to test things out. There are toy datasets available, but not worth exploring. I want to reach out to such companies and am even willing to offer a _ free of cost_ solution, but so far no luck.

All I know, I am good at finding solutions to problems, but why will a company allow a stranger to fiddle with their ticket datasets, and that too, who is not from their country?

Zendesk, ServiceNow, etc also provide marketplaces for building extensions, but again, data is the issue?

Can any entrprenuer/business peron help me in this regard? or even willing to collabrate?

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u/pknerd — 16 days ago

[For Hire] I make systems that help save both money and time

Title: [For Hire] I make systems that help save both money and time

Yes, you heard that right. I am a backend engineer and a problem-solving consultant with 14+ years of experience. I currently lead AI automation at a US marketing agency, and I'm open to remote freelance or contract work.

What I actually do

Many businesses have an invisible layer of manual work:

  • Someone is copying data between tools.
  • Someone is pulling their hair out because it's quite laborious and boring to merge data from different Excel sheets and create a report that is needed by the boss in the evening so that he can make a presentation and show it to stakeholders.
  • The Head of CX and the company owners are upset due to the huge influx of tickets, and they are falling short when it comes to assigning categories to those tickets and routing them to the relevant teams.
  • A trader comes up with an amazing and mind-blowing strategy, but does not have time to sit in front of screens all day and make trades.
  • A business is not getting enough work because by the time they find out about an opportunity, it has already gone stale.

These are just a few of the many problems I have solved over the past few years.

How I work with new clients

I don't ask for payment upfront from someone who doesn't know me yet. For new engagements, I'll do a brief demo or proof of concept on your specific problem first. When you see it working, we can talk numbers.

No risk on your end to start the conversation.

Schedule a free 15-minute discovery/intro call at: https://calendly.com/kadnan/one_one_15min

Looking forward to seeing what you're up to!

u/pknerd — 29 days ago