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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15

Marjn Wants Shopify to Tell the Truth About Profit

marjn.app ↗ · Useful Tools · score 79.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Marjn adds landed product costs and Meta ad spend to Shopify data, then answers true-margin questions inside Shopify Sidekick.

Why it surfaced

This is a sharply focused fix for a familiar accounting illusion: revenue presented as profit. Its demo contrasts Shopify's supposed 100% margin with a 28.8% margin after product costs and ad spend, while its free plan and $19-per-month Pro tier make the intended product unusually legible.

The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.