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.
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.