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Variant Badge Manager for Shopify Products

Category Product page customization This week
Market medium market $2k-8k MRR
#variants #badges #product-page

"An app that lets merchants add visual badges directly onto specific product variants inside the variant picker. It helps..."

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High Confidence (92%)

Net-Discount Gift With Purchase Thresholds

Category Promotions and Discounts 2 days ago
Market medium market $5k-15k MRR
#gift-with-purchase #discounts #cart-total

"An app that triggers free gifts only when the cart total after automatic discounts, discount codes, or coupons still exc..."

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High Confidence (91%)

Collection Image Override for Dawn

Category Theme customization 3 days ago
Market medium market $2k-8k MRR
#collection images #metafields #dawn theme

"A Shopify app that lets merchants assign different images for collection cards, collection lists, and collection pages w..."

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Community-led visibility: PageFly captures mindshare by solving broad forum questions

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Variant Cards for Collections

Show each color/style variant as its own product card on collection pages while preserving theme styling. Automatically ...
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