Without a doubt Gadget has enabled us as an agency to expand our custom app offerings. We’re a Shopify Plus Partner, and about half of the new projects we do these days require some form of custom app.
Mini-apps used to fall into the too hard basket because you'd end up spending more time writing boilerplate code and setting up deployment pipelines.
Large apps were always possible without Gadget, but we couldn't help but feel we were spending too much time and resources focusing on areas that we had already solved for other apps.
However, this did introduce a new problem - our team needed to get up to speed with Gadget ASAP.
We had a new hire start recently, and as part of our new hire process, when someone gets their first Gadget ticket and they don't have experience with Gadget, we ask them to go through the tutorials. And conveniently this happened, I think the day after we just had the new AI assistant enabled on our account.
I thought that was just for my personal account on Gadget, not the entire partner's organisation. So when they're working through the tutorials and eventually moved on to a ticket, I thought it was a little bit odd that they didn't have any questions at all. So about halfway through the day I just reached out and was like, Hey how are you finding Gadget, is there anything you wanted to ask me more about or anything?
They fire back with oh no, I get it all. I've been using the AI system all day, it's shown me the way basically. And then in my head then everything just clicked and I realised that people can actually ship meaningful features in a day without experience on Gadget, versus, you know, a week lead time where people get up to scratch and get a real feel for the platform.
It is certainly not just another Open AI wrapper. It has deep contextual knowledge of the platform and also the infrastructure that it runs onto. Without a doubt it fits well within the tool belt that Gadget gives you.
I think Gadget's mantra in my head at least, it’s always been that it lets you focus on actually shipping features, instead of getting caught up in architectural choices and code. So I would say the AI tool and the assistant really has changed things for us here.
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