• Last episode • Sales calls • Early stage SaaS - building from your gut feeling • New App Store Listings - The New Arms Race • Delay with making apps multi-lingual because of new App Store stuff • Demo stores showcasing apps • Product testers / feedback service • Explainer videos (150 words per minute roughly)…

Jacks Unite pre-meetup event Unite itself: unite.shopify.com What did you like most about the event? Which talks were best? Location, food etc. Coming soon: App Store Listing changes Coming soon: Re-categorization of App Store (again) What’s next for you?By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Shopify Editions - Summer 2022 Shopify Embedded app improvements: https://shopify.dev/apps/tools/app-bridge/actions/fullscreen https://shopify.dev/apps/tools/app-bridge/actions/menu/navigation https://shopify.dev/apps/design-guidelines SASI - https://sasi.unionworks.co.uk SEO & Marketing - https://statamic.com Raising prices - Translateci.com | ord…

This week we thought we'd have nothing to talk about, because we'd just met in person earlier in the week. Turns out we did, and this is one of our longest episodes!By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

TranslateCI: https://translateci.com/ (Shopify App Store Listing in Beta) Lemon.io for hiring: https://lemon.io Polaris for Rails: https://polarisviewcomponents.org Polaris for Vue: https://github.com/HulkApps/polaris-vue https://inertiajs.comBy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Jack has some big news, that we can finally talk about! We also talk about building new apps, multi-language and the Shopify App Store listings and much more.By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Jack works on getting technical articles written for TranslateCI, and we talk about the hard things about writting in general. Bjorn follows up on the new Marketing campaign, Facebook Ads and more.By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

This week Jack and Björn talk about finding balance between support and business development, building in public, latest changes in the Shopify App Store and a whole lot more.By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

London, co-working and personal assistants TranslateCI: https://translateci.com/ Sponsorship of Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/ App Bridge 2.0 upgrades finished for Order Printer Pro: https://apps.shopify.com/order-printer-pro Planning of Basecamp using Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup Marketing Campaigns New App Store experiments…

rails.new https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/valet https://beyondco.de/servicesBy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

@JustSteveKing - Laravel programmer with great tutorials: https://twitter.com/JustSteveKing App Store Redesign AMA: https://twitter.com/ShopifyDevs/status/1479091995389878273 Gov UK view component library: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

App Bridge, Marketing, Shopify App Store Listing Changes and much more..By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Translate.ci: https://www.translate.ci FORSBERG+two blog: https://www.forsbergplustwo.com/blogs/news Github Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace Laravel Shift: https://laravelshift.com Migration to Shopify App Bridge 2.0: https://shopify.dev/apps/tools/app-bridge/migrating-legacy Vishwesh Shetty's Shopify AppStore Marketing Consultation: htt…

Shopify Unite 2021: https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/shopify-unite-announcements-2021 API Release notes: https://shopify.dev/api/release-notes/2021-07By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

FORSBERG+two's new app logos: https://twitter.com/FORSBERGtwo/status/1398208344310038531 Shopify Voice & Tone style guide: https://polaris.shopify.com/content/voice-and-tone Mailchimp Voice & Tone style guide: https://styleguide.mailchimp.com/voice-and-tone New Shopify App Store categories: https://shopify.dev/concepts/app-store/getting-your-app-ap…

Jekyll for static sites and emails: https://jekyllrb.com/ Amazon EventBridge: https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ Shoryuken for Ruby: https://github.com/ruby-shoryuken/shoryuken Twitter thread on negative reviews: https://twitter.com/benfkennedy/status/1389329279708585985 The Support Heroes: https://www.thesupportheroes.com/ Shopify Plus Certified …

View Components: https://viewcomponents.org Partner Metrics Ideas: https://partnermetrics.io/overview Webhooks: De-duping via hash signature Amazon event-bridge, a better alternative? https://shopify.dev/tutorials/manage-webhook-events-with-eventbridge Laravel Vapour (AWS helper): https://vapor.laravel.com/ Hatchbox for Ruby on Rails: https://www.h…

App Store Ads Attribution and Optimization. Recommend this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho1ax1CloS0 Playing with Rails Turbo Frames: https://boringrails.com/tips/turboframe-lazy-load-skeleton Deprecation of EASDK and migrating to App Bridge 2.0: https://shopify.dev/changelog/easdk-being-removed-and-embedded-apps-must-migrate-to-app…

Windy, aTailwind tool: https://usewindy.com Brand guidelines creation: https://canva.com OrderlyPrint: https://forsbergplustwo.com/pages/orderlyprint Shopify App Store Analytics: https://www.appstoreanalytics.io Neat A/B Testing: https://neatab.comBy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

LiveWire: https://laravel-livewire.com/ StimulusJS: https://stimulus.hotwire.dev/ Keir Whitaker (Shopify App Marketing Audit and Roadmap): https://keirwhitaker.com/By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Burnout Yearly pricing Upgrading Shopify API versions Book: Essentialism: https://www.audible.com/pd/Essentialism-Audiobook/B00IWZ6XGABy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Translate CI: https://translateci.com/ Shopify Polaris: https://polaris.shopify.com Partner Metrics for Shopify: https://partnermetrics.ioBy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

Traction by Justin Mares AIDA framework (copywriting formula, aim for 150 words for an explainer, roughly) Fivrr.com Bread n Beyond (explainer videos) Shopify App Store AdsBy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

This week we get into the details of an incident with one of Bjorn's apps (more on that next week) which got it unpublished from the app store for a week, Jack goes on a wild goose chase with the Assets API and shares some great tools for Laravel developers. Spatie.be: https://spatie.be/ OrderlyEmails: https://apps.shopify.com/email-templates Stimu…

This week Jack hits a roadblock with Superhero, Bjorn get's excited about AppKit and the new Polaris Figma UI kit, and some exciting news coming for PartnerMetrics. Superhero: https://www.trysuperhero.com/ Polaris Figma Design Kit: https://www.figma.com/@shopify PartnerMetrics: https://partnermetrics.io…

Jack submits a new Shopify app called "Superhero", Bjorn hires his wife for marketing and bookkeeping, and both reflect on 2020 and the year ahead! We also have a special guest appearance from Jack's cat 😅 Show notes: Doing Content Right - E-Book Jack's new app: Superhero Smiirl counterBy Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg

This week we discuss Jack's coming plans to record screencasts for TranslateCI, we share our experiences with the Shopify App Store Ads and we get into our preferred ways of creating logos and creative assets. Show notes: TranslateCI: https://translateci.com/ Figma logo design course: https://howtoproduct.co/#logo-design-course Shopify app ads: htt…

Welcome to the first episode of The Bootstrapped Podcast. In this episode, Jack and Bjorn introduce themselves, talk about what they are working on, hiring employees and the new Partners API coming from Shopify. * We are working on the audio quality, so next weeks episode will be better :)By Jack Kowalsky & Bjorn Forsberg