Hey Cowboys,
Happy Friday Jr! The boys are headed back from DotDev today, so we’ve got 3 previous Ecomm Cowboy conversations for you. You’ll hear from:
Ashwinn Krishnaswamy, Forge Design - Inside Modern Brand Building
Franky Shaw, FutrGroup - AI vs Creator Ads
Byron Young, CordaRoy’s - The Reality of Hypergrowth
BTW Sidekick app extensions are here! Learn more from our conversation with Eytan Seidman, VP of Product at Shopify 👇
"Sidekick is a natural-language command layer for the entire Shopify app ecosystem.“
Eytan Seidman (VP of Product, Shopify) shipped the update app developers have waited for: Sidekick app extensions, which let apps plug their data and actions directly into Shopify's assistant.
Ask Sidekick to email a campaign to your gold-tier customers and it now knows you run Seguno, stages the whole thing, and waits for you to hit send.
The other half of his job is defending the App Store: AI made building easy enough that copycat apps and incentivized fake reviews surged, so his team is throttling clones and cleaning reviews to make sure original builders and honest signal win.
Catalog monetization is coming next.
Watch this conversation (and everything else from DotDev) on YouTube here.
Feel free to let us know what you think! Simply respond to this email and we’ll say hi.
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