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Before I quibble, let me first state that this is an excellent, well written and comprehensive guide that any aspiring Shopify app developer should read careful
by valuearb 6y ago
Before I quibble, let me first state that this is an excellent, well written and comprehensive guide that any aspiring Shopify app developer should read carefully.
Two Quibbles.
First, the API is very good but Shopify support will not answer developer questions about it and will push you to their developer forums. There if you are lucky you might get a useful answer within a day or two, if unlucky you won’t.
It’s shocking that a company whose entire business revolves around these APIs (its not just used by app developers but by merchants themselves) refuses to offer technical support.
Secondly, it’s a tiny market. The best data have found indicates about $50M a year total to App developers, so if you want to build that $1M MRR app, look elsewhere. Author, please correct me if this is wrong, as I’m working on a Shopify app as my side project and it would really help my motivation if my estimate is way low.
- jacobr1 6y ago> Secondly, it’s a tiny market. The author suggested $2k/month gross revenues ~ $20k/year net, was a reasonable expectation for a niche app. So this presumes you have maybe 5 apps, developing a new one or redeveloping an existing one on a pretty regular basis. Or it presumes a side-gig. It doesn't really presume a startup company.
- lxxvii 6y ago> The best data have found indicates about $50M a year total to App developers The Shopify Developers homepage https://developers.shopify.com/ https://developers.shopify.com/ (scroll down one screen) claims $90M in 2018, unless you have some reason to doubt their claim?
- valuearb 6y agoThanks, I’d never seen that before and it’s good news.
- adventured 6y agoWhich might imply closer to $180-$200 million today, given their sales have doubled since 2018.