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Ask HN: Interesting problems to solve for Shopify merchants?

1 pointkasrakhosravi21 comment

I was planning to build a Shopify app as a way to get my entrance into the world of entrepreneurship. I was doing some research and came up with 5 ideas and decided to write a piece on it [1] Here is the gist:

#1 Task management #2 Local pickup app #3 Enabling renting products #4 Customer and products insights #5 Virtual show and tell app

Any Shopify merchants who can give me feedback on it? Are you currently using another mechanism for solving any of these problems? Are they even real problems in your opinion?

Would love to have a discussion on some pain points in merchants lives; as I want to build a pain killer and not a vitamin app

[1] https://www.kasrakhosravi.com/7-app-ideas-for-shopify/

There are so many other real problems

- starting out, not knowing what carriers available in your target area and their real performance/SLA, until you try them out. This info is critical to do business.

- for merchants with lots of products the photo sessions + touch up takes a lot of time. Any way that can speed up the process would be helpful.

- large catalogs can't manage their SEO without some automation. Shopify doesn't give this out of the box. There are apps in this space though thankfully.

- merchendizers managing large catalogs can make many mistakes when adding product to website. There's got to be a customizable "checker" that could check if mandatory fields are filled, spell check etc.

- let's say you want to slash a collection's price by 10% for a sale. This can't be done easily without manually changing each product. (coupons not a solution, as price has to reflect on ad channels). Any way to do bulk actions like these faster?

- lots of customers enter in wrong email or phone number or don't respond.. is there a way to add optional OTP entry step after order placement?

- shopify (and most themes) don't give customers ability to request and manage returns. Their option is contacting customer support.

I guess you get where I am going with this.. look at the operational issues businesses face, there are opportunities there.

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