Notes from the watch, written as we build.
Shopify store health, SEO issues, and building Rabbot in the open.
- August 24, 2026
A monitoring app and a backup app are not the same purchase
Rabbot and a backup app like Rewind solve different failures. Here is what each one actually does, and why a Shopify store benefits from both.
- August 23, 2026
Some Shopify problems never announce themselves.
Real stories of Shopify stores breaking without warning, and the one quiet kind of failure worth watching for.
- August 23, 2026
Rabbot is live on the Shopify App Store
Rabbot, a same-day storefront and product-feed monitor built by the SEO who lost his own Shopify shop to the problem it watches for, is now live on the Shopify App Store.
- August 23, 2026
Most Google Shopping disapprovals are mechanical. One of them can reopen on its own.
Google Shopping disapprovals usually trace back to one of four fixable causes, and one of them can reopen after you thought it was fixed.
- August 23, 2026
I asked an AI assistant if my app had an MCP server. It told me to build my own instead.
An AI assistant said no Shopify monitoring app it knew of, mine included, had an MCP server, and suggested building one from scratch. Rabbot already has one: nine tools, one of them a guarded write.