StoreMD — opening 10 Pro beta spots this week. Here's the deal, who we want, and why we're doing it this way.
StoreMD — opening 10 Pro beta spots this week. Here's the deal, who we want, and why we're doing it this way.
Launch was 14/04. Eight days in. Free tier is running, public scan covers 43 checks in 60 seconds.
Why we built a Pro tier:
The free tier runs a lot of checks. But some of the most valuable detections require slower, deeper analysis we couldn't fit in a 60-second public scan.
→ Shopify billing history diff across multi-year store age
→ Per-LLM AI readiness scoring (GPTBot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot scored separately)
→ Theme code AST static analysis
→ Metafield parseability stress testing at catalog scale
→ Cross-store competitor benchmarking
These take 3-5 minutes per scan instead of 60 seconds. Can't run them publicly without infrastructure cost hitting us hard.
So Pro tier. Paid access for the deeper pipeline.
Why we're opening beta spots before pricing:
We want 10 real merchants or agencies using Pro on their actual live Shopify stores for 30 days before we settle on pricing.
Two reasons:
One — we need feedback on what's actually valuable in Pro versus what's nice-to-have. Pricing should reflect what users tell us is worth paying for, not what we think.
Two — case studies. Every beta tester who gets value from Pro during the 30 days becomes a potential case study we can show to the next 100 merchants.
What the 10 beta testers get:
→ 30 days full Pro access
→ Structured feedback checkpoint at day 14 (15-min call)
→ Priority Slack support channel during the beta period
What we ask:
→ Use Pro on your real live Shopify store, not a dev store
→ Give us the feedback at day 14, honestly
→ Tell us what broke, what surprised you, what's missing
No contract, no payment capture, no upsell sequence. 30 days, then it ends unless you want to keep it.
Who qualifies:
→ Shopify merchants running any revenue range
→ Agencies managing Shopify clients (we'll accept one store per agency client in the beta if you want to scan multiples)
→ Freelancers consulting on Shopify
How to claim:
DM our FoundryTwo IH account or DM @foundrytwo on Twitter with your Shopify store URL. First 10 tonight.
Free scan runs at https://storemd.vercel.app/ if you want to see the baseline before committing.
Feedback welcome on the beta design itself — is 30 days right? Is day-14 checkpoint the right cadence? What else would you expect from a Pro beta program?
This is a clean beta structure — especially the “no contract / real store only” filter.
One thing I’d question though:
At this stage, a lot of your growth will come from referrals + word-of-mouth from those first 10 users.
“StoreMD” is clear, but it feels slightly functional — not something people naturally bring up or remember when recommending tools to other merchants.
For something targeting Shopify operators (who see tons of tools daily), that first impression + recall matters more than expected.
Curious — are you treating the name as locked, or still flexible while you’re early?
Appreciate the feedback on the beta structure.
On the name, locked.
We get why it sounds functional, that's deliberate. StoreMD sits inside a Shopify admin next to 14 other apps. The merchant doesn't need to love the name or tell their friends about it. They need to open it, see what's leaking, fix it.
The recall problem you're describing matters for consumer brands or social tools. For a B2B Shopify app that saves money, the report does the talking.
Nobody remembers their accountant's brand name either, but they remember the $340/mo they stopped losing.
Yeah — makes sense, especially inside the Shopify admin context.
The outcome doing the heavy lifting is real.
Where I’ve seen a small difference though is when merchants start sharing tools in Slack groups / DMs — even functional names that are a bit more distinctive tend to get recalled faster.
Not a dealbreaker early, but it shows up later in organic spread.
Curious — are most of your early users coming from direct outreach, or are you already seeing any referrals between stores?
100% direct outreach for now. Zero organic spread yet. We're day 8 post-launch so it's all push, no pull.
The Slack group recall thing is a fair point. We'll see if it becomes a real friction once merchants start recommending it to each other. Right now the bottleneck is getting 10 real stores on the Pro beta, not brand recall.
If the tool saves them $300/mo in ghost billing they'll remember the name regardless of how it sounds.
Yeah that makes sense at this stage — getting real stores in matters more than anything else.
The $300/mo saving will definitely carry the weight early.
What I’ve seen is that once a few of those stores start talking to each other, that’s when small things like recall start showing up.
Not urgent now, but something that tends to surface once the pull starts.
Curious to see how it plays out once you have those first 10 in.
will do. once the first 10 are in we'll post a real update here on how the onboarding actually played out.
Appreciate you following along.
Fair. But this is exactly the window where it is easiest to fix.
Once those 10 stores start talking, the name becomes part of the distribution whether you plan for it or not.
Right now you are relying fully on outcome to carry growth. That works for push.
But pull usually needs something people can recall and repeat without thinking.
Not saying change it today. Just that if you wait until after traction, it becomes harder because the name is already embedded in usage and screenshots.
Quick way to sanity check it later
when someone shares it in Slack, do others instantly get what it is and remember it after one mention
If not, that is where growth quietly slows
Curious to see the update once those 10 are in and whether any referrals start happening organically