The Bootstrapped Experience Podcast

• Burnout
• Yearly pricing
• Upgrading Shopify API versions
• Book: Essentialism: https://www.audible.com/pd/Essentialism-Audiobook/B00IWZ6XGA

Translate CI: https://translateci.com/
Shopify Polaris: https://polaris.shopify.com
Partner Metrics for Shopify: https://partnermetrics.io

• Traction by Justin Mares
• AIDA framework (copywriting formula, aim for 150 words for an explainer, roughly)
• Fivrr.com
• Bread n Beyond (explainer videos)
• Shopify App Store Ads

This week we get into the details of an incident with one of Bjorn's apps (more on that next week) which got it unpublished from the app store for a week, Jack goes on a wild goose chase with the Assets API and shares some great tools for Laravel developers.

Spatie.be: https://spatie.be/
OrderlyEmails: https://apps.shopify.com/email-templates
StimulusJS: https://stimulus.hotwire.dev/

This week Jack hits a roadblock with Superhero, Bjorn get's excited about AppKit and the new Polaris Figma UI kit, and some exciting news coming for PartnerMetrics.

Superhero: https://www.trysuperhero.com/
Polaris Figma Design Kit: https://www.figma.com/@shopify
PartnerMetrics: https://partnermetrics.io

Jack submits a new Shopify app called "Superhero", Bjorn hires his wife for marketing and bookkeeping, and both reflect on 2020 and the year ahead! We also have a special guest appearance from Jack's cat 😅

Show notes:
Doing Content Right - E-Book
Jack's new app: Superhero
Smiirl counter

This week we discuss Jack's coming plans to record screencasts for TranslateCI, we share our experiences with the Shopify App Store Ads and we get into our preferred ways of creating logos and creative assets.

Show notes:
TranslateCI: https://translateci.com/
Figma logo design course: https://howtoproduct.co/#logo-design-course
Shopify app ads: https://shopify.dev/concepts/app-store/advertising
Looka (logo designer): https://looka.com
Manypixels: https://www.manypixels.co/
Neat A/B: https://apps.shopify.com/neat-ab
FORSBERG+two: https://www.forsbergplustwo.com / https://apps.shopify.com/partners/forsberg-two

Welcome to the first episode of The Bootstrapped Podcast. In this episode, Jack and Bjorn introduce themselves, talk about what they are working on, hiring employees and the new Partners API coming from Shopify.

* We are working on the audio quality, so next weeks episode will be better :)