Articles
How real problems in real shops were found and fixed, written up as the work happens.
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A self-hosted remove.bg alternative for product photos
Every lead product photo on Audio Trader was a thumbnail and nothing said so. Why it happened, what replaced remove.bg, and how to check your own store. -
Building 1,314 Shopify collection pages from catalogue data
How Rendezvous Cinema got a page for every film director it stocks, matched from an open film database, kept in stock nightly and never left empty. -
Bulk-fixing stale prices in Shopify meta descriptions
26,558 of Rendezvous Cinema's Google snippets quoted a price it no longer charged. How 38,774 meta descriptions were rewritten safely across a live shop. -
A Shopify to AbeBooks integration, and what the spreadsheet was hiding
How Rendezvous Cinema's 30,000 posters moved from a spreadsheet upload to a live AbeBooks API link, and the traps in AbeBooks' API that cost the most time. -
Where trade-in forms lose people, and what I changed
A trade-in form's funnel, step by step, for a UK used gear retailer. The photo step lost about half, phones failed more often, and what changed. -
Why Shopify search shows the wrong results, and how I fixed it
Shopify pads search results with near spellings, so a search for a film it had no copy of showed 93 others. How the search now tells the truth.
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