Small business and freelance operations
Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools
Apps and tools that help online store owners, mostly on Shopify and WooCommerce, manage inventory forecasting, storefronts, AI customer support chat, orders, and store operations.
Built for: Shopify and small ecommerce merchants
Projects since May 04
229
Different builders
223
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+24%
AI is the core
21%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (69%), developer tool or library (5.7%), browser extension (5.7%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Automates releasing digital products to Gumroad, Etsy, Lemon Squeezy, Payhip, and Ko-fi by bumping versions, packaging ZIPs with checksums, generating docs, and uploading in one command.“I got tired of uploading every release to 5 marketplaces by hand, so I automated it”
- Amazon Expense & Order Exporter — Exports Amazon order numbers, items, and tax amounts from order history into a CSV file.“Built a small Chrome extension to export Amazon orders to CSV for tax season (Looking for feedback)”
- Provides a reusable full-stack e-commerce template with storefront, customer accounts, cart, orders, and an admin panel.“I built a full-stack e-commerce platform from scratch — looking for feedback”
- CSV Update Review — Compares an original Shopify product CSV with an edited copy and highlights changes to prices, SKUs, options and image references.“Built a free, local Shopify CSV comparison tool — looking for recent CSV users”
- Tracks retail special orders with customer-facing status links, email notifications, Shopify inventory matching, and alerts for stale orders.“Boring but Valuable Fix. Need Help Marketing”
- TheScam.shop — Simulates an online store where users browse, add to cart, and fake-checkout products without any real purchase.“[Alpha Update] TheScam.shop — Now with Portfolio, Bitcoin, and Carbon Footprint Tracking”
- Tile House — Runs an online storefront for tiles and marble with a product catalogue, cart, pricing with labour and transport charges, checkout, and an admin dashboard for products, stock, offers, and orders.“Built a full-stack tiles & marble e-commerce website — looking for feedback, discussions, and interesting projects.”
- Postservice.at — Provides a virtual business address service with subscriptions and checkout.“GA4 missed 56% of our purchases, and ChatGPT visitors start checkout 3x as often as Google organic. Notes from an attribution audit.”
- Catalog Export Dry-Run — Converts a public products.json catalog into preview export rows for review before connecting a spreadsheet.“We made a catalog export preview you can inspect before connecting a spreadsheet”
- Generates image alt text in bulk for Shopify store products.“Redesigning my Shopify app was harder than I expected”
- Translates Shopify product copy and adapts its tone to match each store's brand voice.“everyone is making money with random micro saas tools, can i actually pull this off?”
- a2zz AI Catalog Bridge for WooCommerce — Exposes read-only WooCommerce product search, product details, and stock checks to AI agents through a limited set of selectable tools.“I finally got my first WordPress product approved. Now I need people to break it”
- Replenn — Combines stock levels, sales velocity, incoming stock and supplier lead times to recommend which products to reorder, when, and how much, with explanations.“I managed inventory for a Shopify store with 3,000+ SKUs. I ended up building the inventory tool I wanted to use myself.”
- Clovia — Tracks Shopify checkout journeys and attributes abandoned checkouts to likely root causes like payment declines, shipping failures, invalid discount codes, and script errors.“Clovia - Shopify checkout analytics that shows exactly why checkouts get abandoned”
- OrderPay — Manages bakery preorders with rotating menus, order cutoffs, pickup dates, capacity limits, production totals and packing plans, alongside Square or Stripe.“We built OrderPay from a real micro-bakery workflow, not a hypothetical SaaS problem”
- Window Spree — Simulates online shopping checkout and delivery tracking without charging the user or shipping anything, then asks whether they still want the item.“I kept relapsing at midnight, so I built a store where nothing gets charged!”
- MisePilot — Manages customers, orders, products, inventory, tasks and appointments for small shops in one local-first app on Mac, iPhone and iPad.“I launched MisePilot, a local-first workspace for small shops on Mac, iPhone and iPad”
- tidycatalog — Scores a Shopify store's product data for how well AI shopping assistants can read it and lists plain-English fixes.“I built a free checker that shows how ChatGPT & AI shopping assistants see a Shopify store”
- Shopify Theme Builder — Generates a complete Shopify theme from a plain-language shop description, previewing design options and uploading the unpublished result.“I built a Claude Code plugin that designs and builds a full Shopify theme from one message”
- Scout — Lets an AI agent handle sales and support chats for Shopify and Instagram sellers using tools for products, orders, customers and inventory.“Our first customer found us on Google, left after 3 days, then came back and paid”
Most discussed
- Scout — Lets an AI agent handle sales and support chats for Shopify and Instagram sellers using tools for products, orders, customers and inventory.“Our first customer found us on Google, left after 3 days, then came back and paid”
- Combines inventory alerts, order tracking, review collection, an AI chatbot, Meta Ads and WhatsApp integrations, supplier and print-on-demand order routing, and a task manager into one custom internal tool for a single Shopify store.“I stopped paying $100+/month in Shopify apps and built my own "Frankenstein" with AI. I think SaaS companies are about to have a real problem.”
- Collects email sign-ups for a waitlist for an unspecified product the author built.“Got my first 5 people on the waitlist for something I built 🥹 SO HAPPY!”
- SellStein — Provides an online store builder with payment processing for merchants that other processors reject.“I built a Shopify alternative with a built-in payment processor after getting banned by Stripe”
- QuickDesign — Generates design assets for e-commerce product listings.“Just keep building. Don’t give up. 1 Year Success story 30K MRR”
- ParcelTracker — Tracks the delivery status of parcels in one place.“Currently in a bit of a slump.”
- AutoSell — Automates selling tasks for resellers, based on the product's name and domain.“looking for advice”
- shelfyai — Reads uploaded inventory files with AI, matches items to existing stock, and updates stock levels.“I created an app I need myself. How do I find more people like me?”
- OneFlow AI — Runs AI agents that automate order checks, courier selection, failed-delivery reattempts, and refund processing for e-commerce operations.“Building AI agents that run ops. 2 months in, zero revenue, lots of learning”
- Tracks soft drink wholesale sales, inventory and money and generates statistics for business decisions.“I don't think I'm vibecoding right”