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I'm sending this email from my room in Portugal.

I'm in the country's south in a huge house full of ecom entrepreneurs.

You see, when someone asks me: "How to find Shopify entrepreneurs?" or "How to find early users?"

This is what I'm talking about.

I know this guy from Twitter, a french guy, talking about ecom stuff.

This December, he organized a big mastermind. 20 entrepreneurs in the same house to share ideas.

Most of them have Shopify stores. Some have an email agency, and some others have a video agency.

But they all have this in common: They are merchants or work with merchants.

And being in the same house as them (even if you don't know them yet) is like a superpower.

You spend 1 week with them to understand their problems and get all of them to install your app.

And with all that feedback and all these early users, you can start a successful Shopify App.

This is not the only way to do it. But when I say "talk to merchants" this is how you can do it.

How to find problems?

Alright, I am with 20 people using Shopify. What now?

It's not just about being with them, it's about understanding their business, their pain and what they want.

So this is usually what I ask when I want to find problems worth solving with a Shopify App:

• What do you do exactly?

• What are some Shopify Apps you use every day? Why these apps and not the other ones? Have you tried other apps? What would you improve in the apps you use?

• Is it easy every day with your business? Why? What are some struggles you have?

These questions are open. You start the conversation with them and then you have to go deep. Always ask for details. Ask "why?" every time.

How to find app ideas?

Once you have problems you'll think about potential apps or improvements to existing apps. That's when you can start with these questions:

• What if [app idea] existed? Would you use it? How do you want it to look like?

• What if the app you're already using had [app feature]? Would it be helpful?

• If [problem] was solved, how would you feel?

What you want here is to validate your problem. You need to figure out if the issue you found is worth solving.

How to validate app ideas?

Now that the problem is validated you know you have something. But there are many ways to solve an existing problems. And sometimes the app you thought about is not what people need.

• What do you think of the app it looks like that?

• If you had a magic wand, what features would you like to have and why?

• How much would you pay monthly for something like that? Give a range

Obviously, make the questions look natural in the conversation. This is not an interview 😂

My weekly wins

We reached $39,000 MRR! 🔥

We are now so close to the $41,666 MRR milestone (which is $500K per year)

400 people in the Facebook Group!

400 people joined the group "Shopify App Founders". You can join it by clicking here

We share knowledge about marketing for a Shopify App!

How to use ChatGPT for a Shopify App?

You probably saw ChatGPT from OpenAI which was released recently. If you haven't, it's a new AI-powered chat where you can ask anything.

These are some of the use cases for a Shopify App:

• Rewrite your app listing description

• Find keywords for your app

• Improve your app's code

• Find marketing ideas

• Create a script for your main video

• Help you find feature ideas

That's it for this week!

See you next week,

Mat