Building and Launching a SaaS Product in 2 Weeks: A Shopify App Postmortem – Daniel Bader – MicroConf Europe 2016

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Website: http://dbader.org
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Slides: http://dbader.org/microconf16

• Goals:
  • help you avoid mistakes I made
  • help you evaluate the Shopify App Store as a platform
• Shopify App Store
  • Shopify: hosted e-commerce platform
  • App Store: “Saasy WordPress Plugins”
  • Shopify handles plumbing, takes 20% cut

Nearby Shop Notification

• Notifies people about deals when they are close to one of your retail stores
• What went right:
  • I made $31.92 from it – Woohooo!
  • I didn’t spend a lot of time on it
• Things that went wrong:
  • I just built what I wanted to build

-Christoph