For a long time now, I've heard many people say that you should build an email list. I've listened to podcasts about running online businesses and a common recommendation is to build an email list as soon as possible. But I've kept putting it off.

Well, yesterday, I've finally decided to spend a few minutes to put up a sign up box. The book "Launch" basically convinced me how valuable an email list …

Our Shopify app, EZ Exporter, provides an option for users to download reports on demand from the app's main page. Since it could take some time to generate the report in the background depending on the data, we needed a way to let the user know that the task is currently in progress so they don't reload the page or do something else thinking that nothing is happening. We also wanted to block the …

The command is a pretty simple one-liner, though I probably won't remember it so I'm making a note of it here for future reference:

find /webapps/myproject/media -type f -cmin +120 -delete

This command basically just deletes all the files in my media folder where the last changed time is older than 120 minutes.

Our latest Shopify app, EZ Exporter, just got published in the Shopify App Store yesterday (currently in beta status)! This is our second Shopify app and our first paid app.

With EZ Exporter, we aimed to build an exporter app that is easy to use and flexible at the same time. Right now, we're just focusing on order exports. We have plans to include options to export customer and product data as well in …

I usually find it hard to get started working on a project. But once I get going, I find it hard to stop and sometimes have to actually remind myself that the next parts can wait until the next day and it's time to go to bed.

I just finished building a new Shopify app a couple of days ago and now waiting for the Shopify team to review it. It was a project I've …