Every Shopify Hero Needs a Sidekick.

The Sidekick Lab

From Sidekick to Superstore: Insights for Shopify Heroes

Explore practical guides, experiments, and playbooks to grow your Shopify store with a smart sidekick at your side.

  • Stop Guessing Shipping Costs: Build Your Own Product Weight Manager in 60 Seconds

    PREREQUISITES: The “Zero Weight” Silent Killer. One of the quickest ways to lose money on Shopify isn’t high ad spend—it’s inaccurate shipping weights. Clicking into every single product variant in the Shopify Admin to check a weight field is soul-crushing work. This leads to inaccurate “Free Shipping” triggers and major discrepancies at the post office..…

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  • Shopify Flow Heartbeat Monitoring: The Complete Setup Guide

    Shopify Flow is the central nervous system of your store. It handles inventory alerts, customer tagging, and fraud detection. But there’s one major problem: How do you know if a Flow stopped running? Usually, you only find out when a task fails—which is often too late. Today, we are “Sidekicking” your automation infrastructure. We’re building…

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