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Noel Dario Andres
Noel Dario Andres

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Building a Shopify App was the easy part. Finding the first testers is incredibly hard.

Hey DEV community 👋,

I’m reaching out because I’ve hit that classic indie-developer wall: I built something I’m really proud of, but getting those crucial first users to test it and give honest feedback is proving to be the hardest part of the journey.

For the past few months, I’ve been building AI SEO Blog Writer, a Shopify app.

The Problem I Tried to Solve:
There are tons of "AI writers" out there, but as a developer looking at SEO, I noticed they mostly just dump generic text via a simple API call. They completely ignore site architecture. I wanted to build an app that acts more like an automated technical SEO strategist—focusing heavily on automated internal linking, structuring content properly, and natively embedding Shopify products directly into the DOM/article.

Under the Hood (The Tech):
Instead of relying on just one model, I built an engine that utilizes both ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

I use them in tandem to cross-check content structure and improve the actual writing quality.

The app automatically handles the generation of unique images (with optimized alt-tags).

It interacts with the Shopify Admin API to fetch products and seamlessly embed them into the generated blog posts, creating automatic internal links to boost the store's SEO architecture.

The Ask (Why I'm posting here):
I'm struggling to get eyes on it to find bugs, test the onboarding flow, and see how the multi-language generation (English, German, French, Spanish) holds up in real-world Shopify environments.

If anyone here runs a Shopify development store, is involved in e-commerce, or just likes tearing apart new apps to give UX/UI feedback, I would be incredibly grateful if you could take it for a spin.

🔗 Link to the app: AI SEO Blog Writer on Shopify
(There is a completely free plan available, so it won't cost you anything to test).

I’d love your harsh, honest feedback on:

The onboarding experience (Is it intuitive?)

The quality of the generated HTML/Structure (Does the internal linking work as expected?)

Any bugs or edge cases you manage to find!

I’m also super happy to answer any questions about the tech stack, working with the Shopify API, or integrating multiple LLMs!

Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any feedback you can throw my way. 🙏

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