Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
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