1. 01 / 069 min read

    Shopify Sidekick is good at suggesting. The hard part is running the work.

    Sidekick suggests. A coordinated system runs the work. They are not better-or-worse versions of the same product; they are different categories.

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  2. 02 / 0610 min read

    Shopify reviews apps in 2026: an honest comparison

    Six options for Shopify reviews in 2026. How they price, how their AI differs, and the harder question sitting underneath all of them.

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  3. 03 / 0613 min read

    We hit $1M ARR with Tectonic. Then we took it back to zero to build Spectrum.

    We hit $1M ARR with Tectonic, then scaled it back to zero. The hypothesis was right; the execution had drifted into work we never set out to do.

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  4. 04 / 069 min read

    Software is free now. Intelligence is the only thing left worth paying for.

    AI made software near-free to build. SaaS pricing has not caught up. The fourth era prices intelligence, not the dashboards that hold it.

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  5. 05 / 0610 min read

    The App Store solved discoverability. It created a coordination problem.

    Integration moves data between apps. Coordination moves decisions across them. Almost every Shopify stack does the first; almost none do the second.

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  6. 06 / 0610 min read

    Six apps, one system: a PDP Optimization Kit teardown

    Six disconnected apps run the typical Shopify product page. Here is what one coordinated system replaces, and what it leaves alone.

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