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We Built a Barbie Search Engine to Prove a Point About Shopify's UCP

Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol makes every store's catalog searchable with no auth, no tokens, and no fees. We built DollScout, a live collector-Barbie finder, to prove it, then open-sourced...
Awesome Ecom Skills: open-source Shopify playbooks for AI agents

I Open-Sourced My Agency's Shopify Playbooks for AI Agents

AI agents can run your Shopify store now. Claude Code, plugged into the Admin API, will happily archive products, rewrite descriptions, and delete metafields at catalog scale. That's the good news...
Inside Shop's New Agentic Search | Shopify Editions

Inside Shop's New Agentic Search | Shopify Editions

"If I don't see that purple button at checkout, bye-bye." That's what Shop's buyers tell Kenny Cohen, and it's a clue to why Shop has quietly become one of the most valuable channels a Shopify merc...
Gift With Purchase Psychology & The Power of “Free”

Gift With Purchase Psychology & The Power of “Free”

Gift with purchase psychology explains why a free gift converts better than a discount of equal value. Here’s the research behind it and how ecommerce brands put it to work.
Shopify VP Vanessa Lee Explains the "Everywhere" Edition

Shopify VP Vanessa Lee Explains the "Everywhere" Edition

VP of Product Vanessa Lee joins Kurt to break down the 2026 "Everywhere" edition and the years of quiet groundwork behind it: taxonomy, attributes, clustering, and a universal product identifier th...
How We Built Montana Knife Co's Insane Landing Page

How We Built Montana Knife Co's Insane Landing Page

Montana Knife Company was finally releasing its first folding knife, a $390 piece their fans had been begging for, and they wanted an announcement page worthy of the moment. Apple-style scroll anim...
8-Figure Shopify Brand, $0 Profit for 6 Years: Fresh Chile's Chris Lang shares all

8-Figure Shopify Brand, $0 Profit for 6 Years: Fresh Chile's Chris Lang shares all

Inside: why he started publishing his real ROAS on LinkedIn when the numbers were ugly, the 80% Meta cut that finally flipped him profitable, and how a 250K-follower organic community out-engages H...
What the Top 1% of Print-On-Demand Sellers Do Right

What the Top 1% of Print-On-Demand Sellers Do Right

"You don't need a garage. You don't need a loan. You don't need an MBA. All you need is an idea and an internet connection."
The 3 Shopify Fraud Red Flags You're Missing

The 3 Shopify Fraud Red Flags You're Missing

"I shipped the bike and a couple of weeks later, the real credit card holder got a statement, said I didn't place that order, filed a chargeback, and then the money was gone."
How a PE Fund Evaluates Your Shopify Business (Before Buying It)

How a PE Fund Evaluates Your Shopify Business (Before Buying It)

"You would probably prefer to take money from Tony Soprano."
2026 Ecom Vibe Check: What's Working on Shopify

2026 Ecom Vibe Check: What's Working on Shopify

"If your product sucks, you're never going to succeed. A lot of people are trying to solve product problems with marketing spend."
How rePete Turns Canceled Subscribers Into Repeat Buyers

How rePete Turns Canceled Subscribers Into Repeat Buyers

"It sucks to lose a customer not because of the product, but because of the mechanism in which they get the product."
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