If you're an app developer with a listing in the Shopify app store, you're going to want to understand how well your app listing is performing. How are people arriving on your listing page? What's your bounce rate? What's your install rate?| Daniel R. Sim
App developers are now starting to change their partner names in the Shopify app store so that they rank higher... Shopify app developers are free to change their partner name as much as they like. Their partner URL doesn't change, just the partner name text. Like a major| Daniel R. Sim
I distinctly remember the moment. I must've been 12 at the time. I was laying in bed listening, half asleep, half awake, to my white plastic digital clock radio. Then a song came on that made me sit up. I turned up the volume so I could properly hear it.| Daniel R. Sim
Sometimes your hammer should go searching for nails. In the past few decades, as the web, e-commerce, mobile devices, and software moving to the cloud became mainstream, there wasn't a company (that survived) that didn't consider these technologies. Now with advances in generative AI, another 'we should be using this'| Daniel R. Sim
I've been around for sufficiently long now that I feel like I'm writing from a place of experience. There are mistakes I've made, some of which have been significant. There are non-obvious lessons I've learned. There are opinions and an outlook on life that define who I am. I started| Daniel R. Sim
There's a theory that as humans get nicer things, acquiring luxuries, we then view those luxuries as necessities. The happiness bump we got from acquiring a luxury wears off, and we return to the same set point of happiness as we were before. I've never lusted after something just because| Daniel R. Sim
Choosing a problem to solve, rather than starting with what you want to build, is the best way to start a business. Some search for that problem, landing on a problem that they don't have, but others do, or they think that they do. This often leads to synthetic solutions| Daniel R. Sim
I've made a few small angel investments. I'm starting to see patterns in their success and my own behavior. I approached one team cold, as their solution was very well executed, and a product I use. Awesome folks, great energy, and they've accomplished a lot. Still, very early. I'm the| Daniel R. Sim
Sooner or later, things go wrong if you force them to happen. And yet, success comes to people who persist, pushing through the point when others would've given up. I'm a passible handyman. If you've ever tried to fix things, you know that sometimes it's a puzzle how to remove| Daniel R. Sim
In relationships, be that business or personal, I've come to realise that moving at the same velocity is important in making the relationship successful and fulfilling for both parties. Moving at different velocities drains the relationship of energy. Moving at the same velocity invigorates it. Velocity is both speed and| Daniel R. Sim
In my 23 years in software, I’ve worked at companies large and small, at different stages of growth, across self-funded, angel, and Series A to C. At each company I’ve found many problems can be solved by borrowing what works well for a company at an entirely different| Daniel R. Sim
This is the seldom-told story of quitting entrepreneurship and taking a job.| Daniel R. Sim
Exiting my Shopify app business [https://www.danielrsim.com/why-i-sold-my-profitable-and-growing-shopify-apps/] was one of the most mentally tough things I've ever done. Before, during, and after I worked with the licensed clinical psychologist Dr Sherry Walling. I waited too long before bringing her on board. I'd pushed awareness of my mental| Daniel R. Sim
It’s been over seven years since I listed my first app in the Shopify app store. It was super-basic. So basic that I was slightly embarrassed to put it out there. The simplicity might have been the key, since by the end of 2019 we had tens of thousands| Daniel R. Sim