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Know what to build before you build it

Every Monday: what launched, what died, and which niches are open — from a daily crawl of every listing on the Shopify App Store.

21,429 apps tracked daily

LOG 01 · What's inside

Three instruments, read weekly

01

Store pulse

Launches, delistings, and review velocity across every live listing — the week's movement in four numbers and two paragraphs.

02

Niche of the week

One category with open water: app count, leader ratings, how long the top listing has sat unchallenged.

03

What merchants hate

The week's complaints, clustered from every new 1–3★ review — the gaps your app could fill.

LOG 02 · Sample issue

What Monday's log looks like

DRYDOCK · SAMPLE ISSUE NUMBERS ILLUSTRATIVE
LOG 01 · STORE PULSE
21,429live apps
143launched
47delisted
4,812new reviews

Launch pace held above 140 for a sixth straight week — the AI flood isn't slowing. Deaths tilted toward single-feature review widgets: 19 of the 47 delistings hadn't shipped an update in over a year. The store gives, the store takes.

LOG 02 · SHIPPED & SUNK

What shipped

  • 38 AI copy & SEO tools — the biggest single cluster
  • 11 checkout-extensibility upgrades ahead of the August deadline
  • 6 new returns portals — see LOG 03

What sank

  • 19 stale review widgets, no update in 12+ months
  • 9 COD form builders — category down 22% YTD
  • 4 delisted for API-version non-compliance
LOG 04 · WHAT MERCHANTS HATE
  • slow render times — 41 reviews
  • confusing credit pricing — 28
  • no bulk export — 19
  • support gone quiet — 17

Render speed complaints doubled among page-builder apps this week — 41 fresh reviews name it. Credit-based pricing keeps drawing fire wherever it appears. Both are solvable; nobody's solving them.

END OF LOG · NEXT ENTRY MONDAY 06:00 UTC

LOG 03 · Last call

Know the water before you set out

Free · every Monday · 21,429 apps tracked daily