What kind of Shopify apps do you build?

I build public and custom Shopify apps using Remix/React Router v7 and TypeScript. This includes embedded apps, theme app extensions, checkout UI extensions, Shopify Functions, POS UI extensions, and Customer Account extensions.

What is your tech stack for Shopify app development?

TypeScript end-to-end, Remix or React Router v7 (Shopify's recommended framework), GraphQL for Admin and Storefront APIs, Node.js for backend logic, and Next.js for full-stack projects.

Are you available for freelance Shopify app development?

Yes — I'm currently open to new projects. I take on freelance and contract Shopify app development work alongside my role as Lead Developer at Minionmade.

What Shopify extensions can you build?

I can build Shopify Functions (discounts, cart validation, payment customization), Checkout UI Extensions, POS UI Extensions, Customer Account Extensions, Theme App Extensions, and Web Pixels.

How much experience do you have with Shopify app development?

3+ years building on the Shopify platform — including owning the full development cycle of ShopSTR, a public Shopify app used by stores worldwide, and leading custom Shopify builds for clients at Minionmade.

Jojit Thomas — Shopify App Developer

01 The story so far

From a lockdown notebook to building real products.

2020 — 2021

The Quiet Start

2022

Bootcamp & Ship

2022 — Jul 2025

ShopSTR, end to end.

Jul 2025 — Now

Lead Dev + Side Products

Self-Taught

Lockdown taught me to build.

I spent the pandemic teaching myself to code from scratch. HTML, CSS, JavaScript — building tiny things in a notebook by day, breaking them in the browser by night. It turned a strange year into a beginning.

HTMLCSSJavaScriptCuriosity

Intensive Training

From toy apps to shipping real ones.

An intensive coding bootcamp where I went head-first into hands-on projects — including a full video conferencing app built with a mediasoup SFU backend. Not just peer-to-peer: a proper server-side media router handling multi-party rooms, so connections scale without blowing up the client. I learned how to ship, how to debug at 2am, and how to think in systems.

ReactNode.jsWebRTCmediasoupSFUProblem solving

Minionmade · Public App

Owning the dev cycle of a public Shopify app.

At Minionmade, I took ownership of the entire development cycle for ShopSTR — a public Shopify app used by stores around the world. Features, fixes, support, releases, infra. I wasn't the founder; I was the engineer keeping it alive and moving forward every day.

ShopifyNext.jsExpressPreactLiquidWebhooksSupport

Minionmade · Lead Developer

Leading client work. Shipping my own products on the side.

I now lead client builds at Minionmade — mostly Shopify, sometimes broader full-stack work. Outside of that I ship my own products: ICS Viewer (a live public tool) and ElamOne, a mobile-first ops app for cardamom-drying units. Shopify is one of my best tools, not the only one.

TypeScriptNext.jsReact RouterShopifyProduct UXMobile-first

02 Selected work

Client work, and products of my own.

Minionmade · Lead Developer Jul 2025 — Now

Leading custom Shopify builds.

I understand the problem, and reach for whatever fits — a Shopify Function for discount logic, a POS UI Extension for in-store flows, a Customer Account block for post-purchase, or a small embedded app when nothing off-the-shelf does the job. Code stays lean. The right tool, every time.

Shopify FunctionsPOS UICustomer AcctTheme App Ext.TypeScriptRemix

Multiple

clients · ongoing builds

James Cress Florist ↗

Live · Public product

ICS Viewer

A free online iCalendar (.ics) viewer. Drop in any calendar file and preview events in month, week, day and agenda views — fully RFC 5545 compliant, parsed entirely in the browser for privacy.

Next.jsTypeScriptClient-only parser

icsviewer.com ↗

Product · In production

ElamOne App

An all-in-one operations app for cardamom-drying units — kind of an ERP / CRM, but kept stupidly simple. Mobile-first by design: the operators in the field carry phones, not laptops. Behaviour-led UX, big targets, native-feeling flows.

Mobile-firstOperationsField UX

Cardamom industry · India

cardamom.farm

A daily-auction price tracker for Indian cardamom, built to replace the unreadable price tables traders rely on. PDFs from auction houses get parsed for prices, schedules, and lot details — then surfaced as glanceable cards, charts and a calendar, all cross-linked. Auction-day prices, who's selling when, trend graphs — in one place, on any device.

Live · Public product

Next.jsPDF parsingChartsCalendar

cardamom.farm ↗

Minionmade · 2022 — Jul 2025

ShopSTR

Owned the full dev cycle of a public Shopify app used by stores around the world. Features, fixes, support, releases — three years of keeping merchants shipping.

Next.jsExpressPreactLiquid

Public Shopify app

Bootcamp · 2022

Video conferencing app

A full video-call app built during bootcamp — rooms, signalling, WebRTC, the lot. Where shipping became muscle memory.

WebRTCNode

Learning project

03 Tools of the trade

The stack behind the work.

TypeScript — Daily Driver

Strict mode, schema-first APIs, end-to-end types everywhere

Next.js — App Router

Server components, route handlers, full-stack apps on the edge

React — UI Core

Component libraries, design systems, complex client state

Remix · React Router — Framework v7

Loaders, actions and Shopify-recommended app templates

Node.js — Backends

REST, GraphQL, queues, webhook processing and integrations

GraphQL — Schemas + APIs

Schema design, fragments, Shopify Admin & Storefront APIs

Shopify Platform — Apps + Extensions

Functions, POS UI, Customer Account, Theme App, Checkout

Astro — Currently Exploring

Content-first sites, islands, partial hydration for fast pages

Right now, I'm building.

Leading client work at Minionmade by day. Shipping my own products at night — ICS Viewer in production, ElamOne in active build. Always learning a new framework or library to keep the tool belt sharp.

Building since

2020

~6 yrs in

Products live

02 +

Public + private

Currently

Lead Dev

@ Minionmade

Booking

● Open

Full-stack

Shopify dev. Builder of things.

From a lockdown notebook to building real products.

The Quiet Start

Bootcamp & Ship

ShopSTR, end to end.

Lead Dev + Side Products

Lockdown taught me to build.

From toy apps to shipping real ones.

Owning the dev cycle of a public Shopify app.

Leading client work. Shipping my own products on the side.

Client work, and products of my own.

Leading custom Shopify builds.

ICS Viewer

ElamOne App

cardamom.farm

ShopSTR

Video conferencing app

The stack behind the work.

Right now, I'm building.

Got a product
to build? Send it.

From a lockdown notebook to building real products.

The Quiet Start

Bootcamp & Ship

ShopSTR, end to end.

Lead Dev + Side Products

Lockdown taught me to build.

From toy apps to shipping real ones.

Owning the dev cycle of a public Shopify app.

Leading client work. Shipping my own products on the side.

Client work, and products of my own.

Leading custom Shopify builds.

ICS Viewer

ElamOne App

cardamom.farm

ShopSTR

Video conferencing app

The stack behind the work.

Right now, I'm building.

Got a productto build? Send it.

Got a product
to build? Send it.