They rebuilt our storefront headless on Hydrogen and cut time-to-first-byte by more than half. The team actually understood our catalogue.
Shopify builds without limits.
Mindhive is a development-only Shopify agency. Themes, apps, extensions, Functions and headless storefronts — engineered by people who write code every day.
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Shopify builds shipped
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Public apps on the App Store
9 yrs
On the platform
Building on
for brands including
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What we build
Every layer of the Shopify ecosystem
Most agencies stop at the theme. We work across the storefront, the admin, the checkout and the infrastructure behind them.
Modern stack
Hydrogen and custom headless
A Liquid theme is the right answer far more often than agencies admit. When it isn't — because you need a bespoke front end, multi-brand routing, or content from systems Shopify doesn't own — we go headless properly: Shopify's Hydrogen framework, or a custom React Router build on infrastructure you already run.
- Hydrogen 2 storefronts with streaming SSR, deployed to Oxygen
- Custom framework builds on React Router, Remix or Next.js
- Storefront API and Customer Account API in GraphQL
- Metaobjects and metafields modelled for real merchandising
- Edge caching, ISR and sub-second Core Web Vitals budgets
routes/products.$handle.jsx
Hydrogen1export async function loader({ context, params }) {2 const { product } = await context.storefront.query(PRODUCT_QUERY, {3 variables: { handle: params.handle },4 });56 if (!product) throw new Response(null, { status: 404 });78 return { product, seo: seoPayload.product({ product }) };9}Apps, extensions & Functions
The parts of Shopify most agencies outsource
Themes are the surface. The work that changes how a store actually operates happens in the admin, in checkout and in the logic Shopify runs on its own infrastructure.
- Public App Store apps and private apps for a single Plus org
- Checkout UI extensions that survive theme and platform upgrades
- Shopify Functions for discount, shipping and payment logic
app/routes/app.locations.jsx
Admin App1export default function Locations() {2 const { locations } = useLoaderData();34 return (5 <Page title="Locations">6 <Card>7 <IndexTable8 resourceName={{ singular: "location", plural: "locations" }}9 itemCount={locations.length}10 >11 {locations.map((location, index) => (12 <LocationRow key={location.id} location={location} index={index} />13 ))}14 </IndexTable>15 </Card>16 </Page>17 );18}Partners
The platforms we build on
We work closest with the tools our clients actually run — and we build and host our own apps on Gadget.
Our products
We ship our own apps, too
Two public apps on the Shopify App Store, built and maintained by the same team that takes on client work.
How we work
A build process without the agency theatre
Small team, direct access to the engineers writing your code, and a scope you approve before anything starts.
01
Technical discovery
We audit the store, the data model and the constraints, then write the spec. You get a fixed scope and timeline.
02
Architecture
We choose the right surface for the job — theme, app, extension, Function or headless — and document why.
03
Build & review
Two-week cycles on a preview store. You review real work in progress, not slide decks.
04
Launch & support
QA across devices, a rehearsed cutover, then a support retainer if you want us on call.
Reviews
Engineering our clients can point at
Placeholder testimonials — replace with real, attributable quotes before launch.
CompareGeneralist agency vs
Generalist agency vs
a Shopify specialist
Shopify is a deep platform with its own rules. Teams that treat it as a generic CMS end up fighting it.
Generalist agency
- Learns the platform on your budget
- Theme edits only — no app or checkout work
- Fights the platform instead of using it
- Hands off to an account manager
- Deprecated APIs and unsupported patterns
- Disappears after launch
The Mindhive way
- Nine years on Shopify, exclusively
- Themes, apps, extensions, Functions, headless
- Uses Functions and extensions as designed
- Direct access to the engineers on your build
- Current APIs, reviewed against Shopify roadmaps
- Support retainers with real SLAs