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Small tools that save merchants hours

Not every app needs a pricing page. Some of the most valuable things I build are one-screen tools that kill a daily chore.

Good candidates

• Bulk edits the admin cannot do in one pass.
• Reports that combine orders, inventory and your own data.
• Admin actions — one button on the order page instead of five tabs.

Bulk operations for big catalogues

Paginating 80,000 products through the API takes forever. A bulk operation runs the query on Shopify's side and hands back a JSONL file when it is done.

mutation {
  bulkOperationRunQuery(query: """
    { products { edges { node { id title totalInventory } } } }
  """) {
    bulkOperation { id status }
    userErrors { field message }
  }
}

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