Probably the hackiest "bypasses" I've ever pulled off in... botting: The Shopify REST API was for a long time the best and fastest way to checkout on Shopify. High rate limits, no captchas, no checkpoint and easy to work with. This is what gave Cyber the edge at the very start in 2018 (Dashe days) The Shopify team (with Jean-Michel Lemieux at the helm) spent years plugging the holes to make sure it wasn't used during drops. Around 2020, Shopify released Shopify Pay, which allowed you to expedite checkouts on all stores by linking your details to a phone number. Turned out the payment tokens generated through there allowed you to use the payments API as you could 2 years back. We generated around 3k Shop Pay accounts with randomised details, load balanced them across Cyber tasks (as rate limits were per account) and dominated every single release (...until it got patched). We called it Fast2. 3 years later I noticed that the payments API could still be used with Shopify mobile apps using Apple Pay. Turns out you could still send the users' tokenised credit card data in the request and that would take precedence - and as long as a valid signed Apple Pay token generated in the last 2 minutes was also in the request data, the payment request would go through and bypass captcha and checkpoint. Generating those Apple Pay tokens was the challenge, and reversing iOS frameworks was not an option. So I repurposed an old iPhone with a custom sideloaded Apple Pay app that would submit the token to our servers when the flow completed. And by combining accessibility macros, developer sandbox mode to prevent using real credit cards, a voice activation trigger and a old pair of earphones taped onto the microphone - a makeshift Apple Pay token server was born and Fast2 (or was it Fast3?) was back. Jean-Michel Lemieux thank you for providing me with the longest, most multi faceted puzzle ever.show more

we just added Apple Pay support in Chrome and... non-Safari browsers on Dodo Payments. you can now use Apple Pay on desktop too. it opens a QR popup, you scan it with your iPhone, and pay. no Safari required. most payment providers still haven't shipped this. they're stuck on older Apple Pay versions that only work in Safari. we updated to the latest spec and built the cross-browser flow from scratch. this is live now for all merchants. no integration changes needed.show more

The Shopify Subscriptions app is now available to all... Shopify merchants. More and more of our merchants want to sell their products as subscriptions, and now it’s possible to do it with Shopify. Introducing Shopify Subscriptions, a free app where you can easily make your products subscription-based, turn up the recurring revenue, and manage it all in the Shopify admin. Now in full release and available to all merchants. Just another way we are future-proofing your business. Check it out...show more

Meet shopdev, your AI developer for Shopify Prompt, edit,... and deploy custom Shopify themes in minutes with the power of AI. Comment ‘shopdev’ for early access! -- Why are we building this? Building Shopify themes used to take months. Now it takes days with Instant. But we’re not done yet. eCommerce is complex, and custom code has long been the standard for building Shopify themes. - What if it were available for everyone, not just developers? - What if you could build it in minutes, instead of weeks? That’s why we’ve built shopdev[.]ai We’ve been exploring the LLM space for a while now to discover how we can make it easier and faster for everyone to build custom shopify stores. Today we’ve found the perfect solution. Join the waitlist and you’ll be the first to try it out.show more

Complicated finances should not overshadow the dream of running... a business. Starting today, merchants can access Shopify Balance, Shopify Credit, Shopify Capital, Shopify Bill Pay, and Shopify Tax in one place. Now you can spend, manage, and borrow all in the same place. The new Shopify Finance suite: insanely simple, insanely intuitive.show more

And this is how convenient it is to use... Apple pay! There's no form of payment better than tap and pay! And nothing beats the convenience which apple pay brings. Convenience here is way more than the UPI, im fact I still use Tap and pay on Samsung more than UPI.show more

Growing up Trans in the late 1970s it was... well-known there were only three ways to support yourself during transition. 1. If your parents were unicorns and they would support you. Which was very very rare. 2. To work in a drag bar if they would let you. Most in western Canada were not too accepting of transitioning women and drag. Also The Harry Benjamin Standards of Care at the time made it precarious to be in gay circles because if they found out they would deny you continued Trans healthcare. 3. To be a SW. Back then the only SW you could do was on the streets. The bigger the city you could place an ad in the back of a magazine. It was 10 years into my transition at 25 that I found out that in several major Canadian cities, you could actually apply for a license and work at an agency. Here’s my 1987 “Companion” license Back then, I was the only licensed pre-SRS Trans Grl in the City. (not a flex, it was just rare) At 25 I had struck pay dirt again, to feed my dis-ease of More. - Mardi 🏳️‍⚧️💋🧛‍♀️show more

Remember when I said my next step was actually... testing Google Pay in Pakistan? Well… I finally did it 👀 Took my phone to a store, opened Google Wallet and used my Binance Card for a real contactless payment at the terminal. No card details to enter. No physical card to carry. Just held my phone to the reader and tested the whole tap-to-pay experience myself. This was the part I was most curious about because adding a card to Google Wallet is one thing, actually walking into a store and using it is another. From ordering online with my Binance Card to now trying it through Google Wallet, I’m slowly testing how it fits into everyday payments in Pakistan. And yes, I recorded the whole thing 🎥 More real-world Binance Card tests coming next. #Binance #BinanceCard #LearnWithBinanceshow more

Big news! Today we are announcing that Shopify is... acquiring the Threads team. There are a million feelings and thoughts from this journey, but nothing more than gratitude to all of our users and customers for building with us, my colleagues (both current and former) for making all of this possible, our investors, especially Mike Vernal, Elad Gil, Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital, and Jessica Verrilli for their unwavering support and guidance, and all of our friends and family who put up with the late nights, canceled plans, and the general roller coaster that is startup life. To our customers and users who have been asking, here’s how we got here: The past several months have been some of the most interesting and intense of my life. It all started with the rise of Instagram Threads, which presented us with the opportunity to sell our domains. Around the same time, a handful of companies approached us, wondering if we would be open to an acquisition. When this happened in the past, we would politely decline. However, this time, things were different. We weren't that excited about the time it would take to invest in a rebrand, and with mind-warping technological advances now being a commodity, we were excited about joining a place where we could tinker at scale. Each company we chatted with was incredible. However, what ultimately led us to choose Shopify over others was their culture; two distinct things in particular: 1) Craft-obsessed. Their obsession with not just building the right thing, but also building it the right way is inspiring. Sacrifice shows priority, and hearing stories about some of the hard decisions they made to ensure that what they ship is robust, scalable, and trustworthy, even at the cost of short-term metric gains, really proved that their obsession with craft was much more than a feel-good slogan. Their discussions and decisions have me truly believing they're going to be around for 100 years. 2) For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Just about every product and engineering leader I met was an ex-founder who grinded for years to turn nothing into something. They all still had that air of resilience, obsession with the details at every part of the stack, and a compelling vision of the future for whatever they were working on. Threads leadership is also made up of ex-founders, so the entrepreneurial focus at Shopify made it clear that it would be the best environment for us to grow and thrive. Very excited for this next chapter with the team and grateful for all of the support we’ve received over the years from those who believed in us. As always, thanks for (th) reading.show more

Claude Design + Shopify is f*cking ridiculous 🤯 You... can now publish pages from Claude Design → Claude Code → Shopify. Built 100% with Claude Design, Claude Code, and the Shopify CLI. Perfect for DTC brands and agencies who want to skip the design → dev handoff entirely. Here's how it works: → Design any landing page in Claude Design → Export as a zip and drop it into Claude Code → Install the Shopify + Shopify AI Toolkit plugins → Prompt Claude to convert the HTML into a Shopify page template + push to live theme → Claude uploads the images, deploys the files, and creates a published page No more handing designs off to a dev and waiting 2 weeks for a Shopify page. What you get: - A workflow that turns any Claude Design page into a real Shopify page template - Editable sections so your marketing team can swap copy, images, and CTAs without code - Images uploaded straight to Shopify Files automatically - A files-only deploy that only touches what's new in your live theme - A repeatable pipeline you can use every time you design a new landing page This is essentially the design-to-deploy pipeline brands have been waiting for. I put together a step-by-step playbook for going from Claude Design → published Shopify page. Every install, every plugin, every command, and the exact prompt that runs the whole thing. Want the playbook for free? > Like this post > Comment "SHOP" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)show more

Pair your slot with a stock. Get paid in... that stock. Coming to the StockSlot Launchpad: Launch your own slot machine, pick the stocks on its reels, and pair it with any Robinhood stock token. Your creator rewards pay out in the stock you chose. Powered by PancakeSwap API Launching this Friday!show more

Former software engineer at Apple is whistleblowing She says... whenever Apple launches a new phone, they would push an update to older iPhones with malware to slow them down. This pushes people to upgrade “I used to be a software engineer at Apple, and with every new phone that was released, malware was installed on the older phones to make you have to update, so your phone's not just glitching. It's doing that on purpose. Share before it's deleted” She’s telling the truth, this was proven in court The 2017 “Batterygate” scandal, where Apple was caught deliberately slowing down older iPhones through software updates Apple was caught red handed doing this they even admitted it in court Apple released iOS updates that intentionally throttled and reduced CPU performance. This caused phones to feel slower, glitchy and laggy Apple’s stated reason: To prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by aging lithium-ion batteriesshow more

Just wrapping up my 3rd annual 1:1 trip with... my kid, what an incredible year. Tokyo and Shanghai. He planned the whole trip end to end himself, including the wrench he threw in ~4 hours out that we were going to go with completely empty suitcases, so we flew into Tokyo with just the clothes on our backs. Tokyo was amazing as always and we had no real agenda, we wandered around, bought clothes for the trip, ate Tsukemen every day, walked like 10km+/day, spent an evening at a Japanese version of a pc bang, and generally just enjoyed the city. Shanghai was totally different, his entire trip was centred around wanting to go see The International (TI15). We had camped out at midnight and tried to scoop tickets and they sold out in like 0.1s, and there was 0 reselling allowed. We tried literally everything we could to get them, emailed teams, coaches, announcers, everything and just like no luck for 2 months leading up to the trip. Two people responded SirActionSlacks and Will, and man were they amazing. Both went way out of their way to make the event incredible and to make a 12 year old loves dota have the time of his life. We met up with his friend who was also in Shanghai and just spent 4 days watching dota 15 hours a day in the arena lol. The event was insane, production quality A+, and it was one of the most insane TI finals of all time. Luckily we got to sneak in some time around Shanghai and wandered into some awesome dumpling shops, but ultimately the trip was amazing and he says the best he’s ever had of the 3. By far the best thing I do every year, and would highly recommend to any parent who has the opportunity.show more

🚨 The RealFi App is Now Live on the... Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The XRP Ledger-powered RealFi Payment Solution, driven entirely by the REAL Token, is now accessible across more than 4.5 billion devices worldwide through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. This milestone represents another major step in the expansion of the RealFi ecosystem. From our Shopify partnership focused on bringing XRP Ledger-powered payment and rewards technology to millions of merchants globally, to our strategic integration with Bitget Wallet, RealFi continues to expand its infrastructure and reach. As adoption grows, RealFi remains focused on delivering innovative payment and rewards solutions that bridge traditional commerce with blockchain technology. Learn more about RealFi and the REAL Token:show more

Pay the Apple way. Apple Pay is built into... iPhone so you can check out in seconds. No need to reach for your wallet. #PayTheAppleWayshow more

If you spend $2,000 a month and pay for... ChatGPT and Claude, this card hands you around $1,000 back a year - and almost nobody has done the math > 3% base cashback on Core, 5% on your AI subscriptions > Bump to Platinum and AI cashback jumps to 10%, with Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus bundled in - roughly $500 of subscriptions covered before you count a single cashback dollar Access Code: W6TRRM That is money coming back on spending you were doing anyway. Groceries, subscriptions, the AI tools you already pay for One honest catch I cover in the article - the cashback pays in $XPL, a volatile token and the rate is capped and laddered, not flat. So run your own numbers, do not take a headline rate as gospel But the structure is real. Every other card treats your AI bill as ordinary spend. This one turns it into your highest earning category Full math, every tier, every tradeoff, in the articleshow more

This past weekend in Austin, Shopify built a Creator... Mart. It was a fully immersive experience filled with the most successful creator-built brands in the world, all powered by Shopify. Incredibly proud of the Shopify team behind this.show more

We are ready for Apple Pay! Tokenised cards on... Apple Pay / Google Pay provide the fastest consumer payments experience.show more

Americans handed over about 253 billion dollars in credit... card interest and fees in a single year, and for millions the debt never actually shrinks. Total household debt in the United States just hit a record of about 18.8 trillion dollars. Credit cards are only a slice of that, but they are the cruelest slice, because the interest rate almost never drops below 20 percent. Here is what that does. If you carry a balance of 5,000 dollars and pay only the minimum, it can take more than 15 years to clear, and cost you more than 6,000 dollars in interest alone. You end up paying for the same purchase twice. The amount Americans pay each year just in card interest is now more than triple what it was in 2021. This is not an accident of the market. High rates and low minimum payments are built to keep you paying, slowly, for as long as possible.show more