# Notes from the watch, written as we build.

> Notes on Shopify store health, SEO issues, and building Rabbot in the open.
> Canonical: https://rabbot.ai/blog/ · Feed: https://rabbot.ai/rss.xml

## A monitoring app and a backup app are not the same purchase

2026-08-24 · https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-24-the-shopify-protection-stack/ · Markdown: https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-24-the-shopify-protection-stack.md

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.

## Some Shopify problems never announce themselves.

2026-08-23 · https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-how-shopify-stores-break-unnoticed/ · Markdown: https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-how-shopify-stores-break-unnoticed.md

Real stories of Shopify stores breaking without warning, and the one quiet kind of failure worth watching for.

## Rabbot is live on the Shopify App Store

2026-08-23 · https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-rabbot-is-live/ · Markdown: https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-rabbot-is-live.md

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.

## Most Google Shopping disapprovals are mechanical. One of them can reopen on its own.

2026-08-23 · https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-why-google-disapproved-your-products/ · Markdown: https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-why-google-disapproved-your-products.md

Google Shopping disapprovals usually trace back to one of four fixable causes, and one of them can reopen after you thought it was fixed.

## I asked an AI assistant if my app had an MCP server. It told me to build my own instead.

2026-08-23 · https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-rabbot-mcp-server-for-agents/ · Markdown: https://rabbot.ai/blog/2026-08-23-rabbot-mcp-server-for-agents.md

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.