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A few months ago I started building my first Shopify app, True2Size: Chart & Recommender. It’s a tool that helps clothing stores create size charts and recommend the right size to their customers. I’ve recently started seeing my first real signs of success. Merchants are installing the app, people are actually using something I built and I’ve had some really interesting conversations with store owners along the way. I’m obviously still very early in the whole process, but I wanted to share a few philosophies I’ve had since the beginning that I think have helped me a lot. And also some things I wish I’d done differently. My first philosophy was to build something that could do everything my competitors could do, and more. Before I started building, I spent a ridiculous amount of time looking at existing apps in the same category. I tried pretty much everything I could find, looked at their features, how their interfaces worked and what merchants were complaining about in reviews. And instead of picking one competitor to improve upon, I wanted to take the best parts of all of them and combine them into one product. If competitor A had a feature I really liked, I wanted that functionality in my app. If competitor B had a completely different approach to something that worked well, I wanted to offer that too. And wherever I thought something could be done better, I wanted to improve on it. The idea was pretty simple. I wanted a merchant to be able to recreate whatever they had already set up with another app, but then have even more possibilities available to them. In my head, this would remove one of the biggest reasons not to switch. Why would someone stay with their current app if they could do everything they were already doing, plus more, potentially for a better price? Obviously that’s not exactly how it works in reality haha. People value familiarity, trust and not having to spend time switching software. But as a mindset for building the product, I still think it was really useful. It forced me to look beyond what I personally thought was necessary and understand why different competitors had built certain features in the first place. My second philosophy was that the app should feel like it was made specifically for every merchant who installs it. I know that sounds a bit unrealistic, and to some extent it probably is. But that’s always been the mindset I’ve tried to have. Every merchant runs their store differently. They have different products, different preferences and different ways they want things to look and function. I didn’t want someone to install my app, realize it almost does what they need and then have to compromise because a certain setting or feature is missing. So whenever someone installs True2Size, I try to get in touch with them. I offer to help set everything up, sometimes through a call, and ask them what would make the app perfect for their specific store. And I actually try to do something with those answers. If s

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/18 06:51:44