Shopify merchants did $100B+ in Q1 alone — and AI tools just made building for them cheap
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-10-26
- Opening data of the thread: Shopify merchants did $100B+ in sales in Q1 2026 alone, and the cost of building apps for them just dropped sharply.
- The full toolchain: Shopify CLI scaffolds the app, Claude Code writes it, Shopify's Dev MCP feeds Claude the live API docs, and Shopify handles billing — developers just focus on the product.
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