Ep. 3229 - First $1,000: Shopify Library Becomes Paid Subscription
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Shopify merchants kept begging forums for the same quick theme fixes. One developer bundled all his proven snippets behind a $15 monthly paywall—and 170 store owners are happily copying, pasting, and paying.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
| 0:05.6 | customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy |
| 0:10.1 | something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce |
| 0:14.7 | business, reviews have an enormous impact on your business and you want to level up your business |
| 0:19.0 | to get better reviews. You can do that with |
| 0:21.1 | our longtime partner ShipStation. It is a fantastic service that has served so many of our listeners |
| 0:26.7 | as well. I highly recommend it while your customers and get rave reviews with cheaper, |
| 0:31.2 | faster, and better shipping. Upgrade to ShipStation today to get a 60 day free trial at shipstation.com |
| 0:37.2 | and use code hustle. No credit card or |
| 0:39.7 | contract required and you can cancel any time. That's shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 0:52.9 | If you've ever had a website or Shopify store, any kind of templated product where you have to upload images, write, copy, et cetera, then you'll probably notice that a lot of things work really well, and then a few things don't. |
| 1:09.9 | Like you get things looking |
| 1:11.1 | sort of good, but then all of a sudden it's like, how do I center my product images or why is |
| 1:16.0 | my shopping cart icon floating in space? And sometimes fixing these really small issues, if you're |
| 1:22.7 | not a programmer, is just a real pain. Okay. So today's storyteller, today's side hustler, he knows that pain well. He is a |
| 1:29.9 | front end developer. He spent six years freelancing on the Shopify experts marketplace, which is a |
| 1:35.5 | place where you can go if you have a Shopify site and you're like, I need some help fixing one of |
| 1:39.6 | these things. And so he did lots of contracts and many of them felt the same. It was kind of like move a button |
| 1:45.3 | around, hide a price, embed a video, fix this error message. He would collect a small fee for each |
| 1:50.9 | of these things. And then he would see the next client ask for basically an identical fix. |
| 1:56.0 | So one sleepless night, he realized, okay, I've already got the answer, the antidote, in fact, to these repeat |
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