This is part 3 of a series on building MetaBulkify, a Shopify app for bulk editing metaobjects via CSV. Part 1: Excel data corruption and GID/handle resolution Part 2: Shopify platform traps (scopes, throttling, dev store billing) This post is about two things: how I build software as a solo developer with AI, and how I designed pricing to let users try the app properly before committing. I have a
I recently shipped MetaBulkify, a Shopify app for bulk editing metaobjects via CSV. (Part 1 covers the metaobject-specific challenges.) The metaobject stuff was hard, but the Shopify platform stuff was harder. Here are three traps that aren't obvious from the docs. Week 1 of development. Nothing works. metaobjectDefinitions query returns an empty array. No error message. Just... nothing. The probl
You have probably seen a file named “go.sum” in almost every Go project you have worked on. You may have even seen it change every time you run “go mod tidy”. But do you actually know what it does? It is one of those files that works silently in the background, and some developers never stop to think about it. The “go.sum” file is one of those files you never really interact with directly, but it