Meet the 25 y/o who makes $30,000 per month with Apps
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- What makes an app successful? How to come up with ideas? How to validate them? How about ongoing work? That and more is what we're talking about today. :-)
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0:00 Intro
1:04 How did you get started?
2:37 Why Shopify Apps?
7:20 Did you consider other platforms?
8:53 How do you come up with an app idea?
10:46 How to validate your app idea?
21:05 What are the characteristics of a good app?
23:38 What tech stack are you using?
25:37 How many people work with you?
26:53 How long to build your app?
30:38 How to attract users?
33:05 How many support tickets do you get?
35:02 Support for Frontend vs Backend Apps?
37:15 Did success change you as a person?
40:40 Conclusion
41:57 Outro
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Today I will be interviewing Mat De Sousa a self-taught Shopify developer and founder of the Widecompany. He has built multiple successful Shopify apps that make $30,000 in month recurring revenue. We cover things like his background, how to come up with an app idea, how to build a shopify app and how run a successful client centric business.
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I've been following Mat for a while now since I saw him on an article. I appreciate Mat's opennes and honesty on his journey and what he's sharing is helping Shopify developers like me who would like to follow his steps and solve shop owners problems and provide value to help them grow.
Thank you so much Jan for this interview. Truly appreciate it! Been watching your videos for this past years now and you are really a great help! More power to you and the channel.
Thank you!! :D
I'm sure Mat loves to read this too, really appreciate the great feedback.
That was the best video that I watched about it! Thank you!
Thank you Jan and Mat ! Such an amazing interview ! Great questionnaire and insightful responses !
Awesome, thank you! 😃
More to come 🙌
Great video! Jan, your interview was truly impressive! Your eloquence and the way you actively listened to Mat really made it stand out.
Awesome, thanks so much! :-)
I think it's time for another one with him.
Thank you Jan and Mat for this Amazing interview.
I liked it when Mat said "you shouldn't spend a month building your app " because it happend to me I've spent more the five months 'more than 2 hours a day' building a shopify theme but now I don't really know what to do with it haha
One for the books! Saved on my "Knowledge 2023" playlist.
Awesome playlist name 😄
An honor to be featured. :-)
I love this video ! Keep it up Such an inspiration 🤩
You asked exccellent questions.
One helpful point that Matt made, was when a potential user, or a couple of them, made it a Very obvious point that they must have this app by asking Matt when will it be available
... and that this response can be translated into the conclusion that there would indeed be many potential users, without having to contact many people.
Great video ! Matt is a such a humble guy
Thanks & couldn't agree more! 😃
Awesome interview!
Thanks to both of you for this great interview.
Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed it. :-)
Shout out to Mat for sharing all his numbers and knowledge! :-)
🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/DsMatie
Please do the same type of video with a Shopify Theme entrepreneur as well. Maybe someone from Archetype Themes or Maestro theme (or someone else). One important thing this video mentioned about MVP app is that, it should generally take 1 month to build the MVP app. But is it the same for themes? How do you even make MVP version of a theme? It seems like themes has to be a complete product before launching. Also how do you do Market Validation for themes? These are interesting questions that I'd love to see the answers to.
And as always, thank you very much Jan for the video.
Great input,
I think in terms of themes, different steps could include:
- getting as much feedback as possible on the initial designs
- merchant interviews
- or if you could build it as a custom theme for one or a few clients at first
An MVP for themestore would already have to meet all the requirements listed here shopify.dev/themes/store/requirements
So that's going to be a bit of work, but even then you could start with the sections/features that you think are most important and iterate over time.
Will definitely try to see if I can get someone from Archetype to talk about this. :-)
Mat is great man keep it up ....👊
Great interview! Thanks for sharing. One question regarding your customers, how many of them are coming from France Mat? Thanks!
Thanks for the great feedback. :-)
Not sure if Matt is still reading comments here, but I'm pretty sure his customer base is really international. (App page is also in English)
Jan, I’d really love a Freemote-like course but for App Development. I think now with Cli 3.0 and Shopify Functions it has become accessible enough to reach a critical mass
Hey Max, great to see you. 😃
If I remember correctly that was also your feedback in the beginning, cause you were already a bit too advanced back then.
App Development would be fun, personally, I'm just not sure if I could help people get their first results consistently / predictably (since I've never built a successful app myself yet).
And if people pay for it I'd definitely want to make sure that's the case 😃
Maybe it would be doable with a few guest experts
@@CodingWithJan Hey Jan, loving your content. I heard it’s even passed around Shopify staff!
One topic is app development - another one is advanced theme development.
If only there were some advanced course/certification available. Both for myself, but also as a way to efficiently onboard developers that know code and maybe a competitor like Magento, but are new to Shopify. My agency is working a lot with offshore contractors, and it’s proving difficult to get a consistent level of quality. They would know the code to get the job done - but some don’t know about sections and translations and hardcode it into theme.liquid.
Your course is great for somebody new on this coding journey - but too time-consuming to upskill an existing developer. We’d be the first paying customer if it helped us up our Shopify game
Great interview!!! Do you need to know Shopify theme development in order to be able to build Shopify apps?
Also right now I know ui design and html css and very basic JavaScript. Should I learn react or php next in order to build Shopify apps? Trying to learn the least amount possible to be able to get job done from what I know now.
Hey Ruben, glad you liked the interview, thanks for the great feedback! :-)
If your App has visual elements on the website. (integrates with themes) I think would helpful to understand how themes work.
If your App app only works on the backend (e.g you do something with order data), then it might not be required as much.
But either way knowing the basics definitely helps.
And for the Stack, I'd personally go with NodeJS and React / Polaris. That way you can use a lot of prebuilt components and starter templates. :-)
The point is how to find the people who have requirement
Where did you get that Shopify neon light? its 🔥
Shopify sent it over as a 20k / sub special 🤩
looking for someone to make an app to sort our orders by their weights. Anyone have this app? I need the orders I select to be put in order from weights to help my packing and shipping process be faster to have like orders in a row.
Hi, are u still looking for this?
Hello. Please let me know if you're still after this app?
Please create a app development course
Appreciated it, but not planned on my end.
With the things I offer, I just want to make sure I can help students get results consistently and predictably. So for me, that's freelancing. 😄
But maybe Mat has plans 🤷♂️
🙏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
How do you promote the app in fb communities?
- either pay the group owner to give you a shout out
- or participate and help other members, and then ask them if they'd be open to try your app
@@CodingWithJan Thanks I have an app that needs marketing are you able to help? It would be paid.
What about Shopware?
traaaaash 😁
@@CodingWithJan it might be but lots of jobs on job tensor with that
Does he have drawn on beard? :D