Hi friends,
May was busy across the board. A new product is in the pipeline, Aukro integration is heading to Hungary, and marketing is starting to produce actual leads. Let me walk through it.
ArbTask
Stripe has been in place for a while, but May brought something more interesting on the commercial side: USD support. Rocci Alvarez‘s outreach is starting to produce real signals, direct inquiries coming in, reach growing on every post. I also ended up meeting two people from the tree service world this month: Mikael Brogsten and Martin Dahl . Both turned into lunch and a fun afternoon, learning how they actually work.
On the feature side: inventory management landed, risk assessment base is in, and a handful of fixes to the offers flow (quantity and price fields were annoying to edit, banner layout was off). Small things, but they add up.
New product: Reviews Widget
We’ve talked before about Google tightening their scraping protections and how that keeps biting our Google Reviews app. The Trustpilot widget had a similar fate, but the technical story is a bit different.
Trustpilot doesn’t offer a free public API for fetching reviews. So when I built the widget, I did what developers do: opened the network tab, watched what requests their own web app was making, and used those endpoints. It worked great. Until Trustpilot started protecting those internal endpoints more aggressively, at which point the widget broke and staying ahead of it wasn’t worth the maintenance.
So we decommissioned it. And rather than rebuild another scraper that’ll break again, we’re building something different: a Wix app where the business owner manages their own reviews directly. You collect them yourself, you store them, you display them. No third-party platform to depend on, no reverse engineering required. MVP is built and currently in Wix review.
Here is a sneak preview, but I’ll share more once it is out.
Aukro integration goes to Hungary
Quick recap: we build an integration between Shoptet (a popular Czech e-commerce platform) and Aukro (the Czech/Slovak eBay equivalent). Merchants manage their products in Shoptet as usual, and our app handles the Aukro side automatically.
We’ve been live, in Czech Republic and Slovakia for a while. Hungary is next. Shoptet operates there too, and Aukro has a presence. Getting it ready took more than flipping a switch: HUF currency support (with its own rounding quirks), translations, and a handful of market-specific adjustments. It’s now in Shoptet’s review flow. If it clears, we go from two markets to three without changing the core product.
The QR Code Generator name saga
We’d been experimenting with the app name on Wix for SEO reasons. First, we tried “Dynamic QR Code Generator“, and that tanked traffic to about 30% of what we had before. So we pivoted to “QR Code Creator,” which recovered things to around 70%. Better, but still a meaningful gap.
The problem was a technical limitation that prevented us from switching the name back to “QR Code Generator” directly. So we were stuck fighting for ground with a name that wasn’t quite right.
After some back-and-forth with Wix support, we finally got the original name back this week. Too early to have data on whether traffic recovers. I’ll share the graph below so you can see the full rollercoaster.
Pavel