“This is a great resource to research tools for your business but also to give feedback and insight into tools that are currently in development so that they can be helpful for your business and productivity.”
“I love this. As an e-commerce store owner always looking to improve, this platform introduces me to new ideas, upcoming apps, and ideas I wouldn't be exposed to in my day-to-day operations.
Easy to use and schedule, great idea all around”
“Great session and really exciting tool that we may use on our own website to help with customer service queries. Would recommend both the researcher and the platform.”
“As the founder of a Shopify brand that I’ve personally operated for four years, I’m always looking for new tools, apps, and technology that can truly help my business grow, stay organized, and operate more efficiently. Joining AppStoreResearch has been incredibly valuable because it gives founders like me direct access to the people actually building the technology we rely on.
Through the program, I’m invited to participate in short interviews—usually about an hour—where I get to speak directly with app developers and sometimes even the founders behind the tech. It’s a rare opportunity to learn how these platforms are designed to work, ask real questions as a merchant, and understand how they can better support Shopify businesses.
I also love that the program compensates merchants for their time, which helps offset the cost of the many apps Shopify store owners invest in to run and scale their businesses. It’s truly a win-win: developers get real feedback from merchants, and founders gain insights into tools that can help their brands grow.
More Shopify merchants should absolutely take advantage of this program. It’s a great way to stay ahead of new technology, discover AI tools and operational solutions, and learn directly from the people creating the platforms we depend on.”
“AppStoreResearch is a great model – bringing together brands in research / beta / or ready-to-go phases with e-comm operators to better understand their pain points and offer potential solutions.”
“I recently worked with two researchers through the platform and both experiences were excellent. They were responsive, thorough, and clearly knew their stuff. The insights I got back were actionable, not just data dumps or sales pitches, but genuinely useful findings I could put to work right away.
I also want to call out AppStoreResearch specifically — they made the whole process easy and enjoyable. The platform is easy to use, find projects, engage and clear communication all along the way. The results exceeded what I was expecting. It's rare to walk away from a research engagement feeling genuinely happy about the experience, but that's exactly what happened here.
Highly recommend if you're looking for quality research support as either a merchant or app developer in the Shopify ecosystem.”
“AppStoreResearch is a fantastic resource for finding new tools and apps to improve your e-commerce store. Great networking and highly recommended to any online business owner”
“I have been an agency contributor on ASR for quite a while now, and it has been a really fun and easy way to make some extra money for my opinions - that I so love to give out, anyway! It's also been an amazing way to get introduced to apps I may not have ever heard of before, learn more about them, and actually consider adding them to our app roster. ASR has really just been a fun new way to expand my Ecomm network, share my (what I think are) expert opinions, and, hopefully, provide actionable insights for the apps who I meet with!”
“AppStoreResearch sends me research opportunities that align with my expertise as a business owner. I learn about great apps being created that benefit small businesses while still getting paid for my expertise. It's one of the biggest secrets in entrepreneurship hacks when it comes to building your tech stack. AppStoreResearch does a great job bringing in some of the most dynamic developers that really make the research fun.”
“Excellent platform. We have a unique business model as a Shopify Plus store with over 1,500 sites that we manage as part of our ecommerce product offering to our members. We need to deploy at scale and having AppStore Research has allowed us to provide valuable feedback to other developers and also helped us find some solutions for our own platform. Highly recommended.”
“Great platform - easy to use and good quality of research projects/apps featured. I've discovered a few interesting apps and met some great founders!”
“Great idea, great platform. It has helped us discover some interesting apps, some of which we are actually using now. Support is always responsive and accommodating and the extra $ is nice. Highly recommended is you are a Shopify user.”
“Fantastic service - as a Shopify Plus Brand Owner having the opportunity to engage with really exciting projects & products is brilliant and would recommend for any Shopify Brand owner.”
