# Merchant research tools for Shopify app developers

Source: watchfor.tools, an independent directory for people who build Shopify apps. No paid placement, no affiliate links. Not affiliated with Shopify.
Canonical: https://watchfor.tools/categories/research

Talking to actual merchants: panels, recruitment, customer discovery.

2 listed here.

## Tools

### App Store Research

Page: https://watchfor.tools/tools/appstoreresearch
Summary: A paid panel of vetted Shopify merchants to book calls with.
Price: Free account, from $150 per research call
Watch for: It sells sales calls alongside research calls, and a merchant paid $300 to take one is not the same signal as inbound interest. Those conversations are research with a discount applied, not pipeline. The incentive is also the part that changes. It is adjusted for participant quality, urgency and targeting, with $85 the minimum for a research interview. So the worked examples show how a bill is built up, not a quote for yours. And a paid panel selects itself, like every paid panel. You are hearing from operators who will take $100 to talk for half an hour. That is a different population from the merchants who ignore the invitation.

### dtcmvp

Page: https://watchfor.tools/tools/dtcmvp
Summary: Paid feedback calls with established Shopify brands, booked for you.
Price: Quote only, plus a payment to each brand per call
Watch for: No price is published. It is invite only, and each client gets a quoted monthly package. Each brand is also paid separately per call, so the full cost is unknown until you apply. The founder built it after leading go-to-market at Tydo, and one homepage testimonial is from Tydo's CEO. The call format and the coaching ask where you fit and what would make a test easy. That is closer to sales discovery than to research. Brands in the network also get its Chrome extension, which labels and filters cold vendor pitches in Gmail.

## Related categories

- Analytics & billing (also in the directory): https://watchfor.tools/categories/biz
- App Store ASO (also in the directory): https://watchfor.tools/categories/aso
- App Store data (also in the directory): https://watchfor.tools/categories/data
- Ecosystem suites (also in the directory): https://watchfor.tools/categories/suite