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Gadget handles the boilerplate infrastructure, code, and features, letting you focus your time and energy on the functionality that makes your projects unique.

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Zero setup, zero boilerplate

Every developer knows the struggle. You have a great idea for a new app you want to work on over the weekend. But Monday comes around and nothing’s done, because you got stuck. Stuck setting things up, stuck getting APIs to play nice with each other, stuck going down rabbit holes trying to figure out why things don’t work. It doesn’t have to be this way.
For each project, Gadget instantly spins up all of the infrastructure and features you need on the cloud. You write code for the features that make your application unique, not the stuff you’ve built ten million times.

A full-stack JS development & hosting environment for web apps

Every Gadget project comes fully provisioned with the tools to build, and host, feature-rich SAAS apps in minutes.

Zero-setup infrastructure

Each Gadget project boots up with a Node.JS backend, a React frontend, login and user management, and connectors to popular third party APIs out of the box.

Connection to popular APIs

Connect to third party APIs like Shopify, Google, and OpenAI with no code or integrating required. Read and write third party data, and react to webhooks out of the box.

Common SAAS features

Code up the features that make your application special, and leave the repetitive ones to us. Extend our built in login page and user management system, and bill with Stripe in minutes using out billing templates.

React frontends

Every Gadget project starts with a React powered frontend, served instantly on the cloud. Talk to your Gadget backend via a preinstalled React API, customized to your application.

What can you build?

If you can build it in JS, you can build it with Gadget, just faster. The platform’s built-in features and API connectors make it perfect for building Shopify apps, LLM-powered AI apps, and internal tools.

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Private or public Shopify apps

Every Gadget backend comes connected to Shopify’s Admin API. OAuth instantly, sync, store, and react to events with no integration.

Admin API syncing
Webhook pipelines
Shopify OAuth
API version upgrades

Shopify apps built with Gadget

4.9
Lookbook gallery
The ultimate solution for creating captivating lookbook, carousel and image gallery.
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Created by:
Lookfy Gallery
4.9
Share Instagram stories
Make sharing Instagram stories a breeze for your customers. Hack word of mouth marketing at scale.
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Created by:
eVouch
4.9
Social proof popups
Show your visitors recent purchases to instill trust and increase the likelihood that they buy as well.
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Created by:
Pretty Sales Pop Up

LLM-powered AI apps

Every Gadget project comes auth, billing, and connectors to OpenAI and other LLM-hosting providers. Simply plugin your AI-model’s API keys into Gadget, and extend the framework in Node.JS and React to get a full-featured SAAS app within hours.

Open AI connector
Google SSO
Vector fields
Billing via Stripe

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AI apps built with Gadget

4.7
AI writing assistant
Get context-specific copywriting for your ecommerce store with an AI-powered writing assistant.
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Created by:
Embolden
SEO friendly blog posts
Create SEO friendly blog posts using AI-powered content generation for your Shopify store.
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Created by:
Hemiro

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Managed database

Define models with advanced field types, custom validations,and relationships. Gadget creates, hosts, migrates, and scales your database for you.

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Hosted frontend

Make beautiful apps quickly, with a hosted, embedded frontend that has Shopify Polaris and the Gadget API fully set up on every new project.

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JS environment

Extend your backend logic with Javascript functions. Use our built-in web editor or sync files locally and use your own.

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Extensible APIs

Get an extensible GraphQL API and a typesafe NPM package instantly. Build CRUD and custom endpoints in no time.

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File storage

Upload and store images and media files to our secure, performant CDN. Limit uploads by mimetypes and size.

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Platform connections

Connect to Shopify, OpenAI, or Google with just a few clicks. OAuth instantly, sync data, and react to webhooks with minimal code.

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Case studies

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The Shopify Plus agency tripled their development output with Gadget, resulting in more clients and an increase in revenue.

1,000+

hours saved
“It seems like a no brainer to me. Do you want to be able to keep up or not? Because the agencies using Gadget are just going to be way faster and better than you.”
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ALUMWORKS
AI-powered copy-writing assistant that helps merchants create SEO-friendly product descriptions and blog posts.

1,000+

app installs

70%

less code
“The Gadget framework is incredibly well thought out. It handles so much of the boilerplate work for you. We finished the entire project in about a week — from first line of code, to app store submission.”
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ONELIVE
Custom Shopify app that automated shipping rate updates across 1,200+ Shopify stores.

1,200+

stores updated

1,000

hours saved
“Gadget essentially gave our team of frontend developers some backend superpowers. We were able to ship a project that was technically challenging in a fraction of the time, and at a fraction of the cost.”
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Gadget gave the Shopify theme agency the resources to build faster, maintain less, and expand their business to include app development.

<500

lines of code

5x

faster to deploy
“Using Gadget is at least 4-5x faster than setting up an app manually. Time that would normally go into making the project performant, secure, and scalable is saved.”
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MEEKCO ASIA
Leveraging Gadget’s built-in Shopify connection and relational database, Meekco cut their development time in half.

50%

less dev time

1,000+

hours saved
“Using Gadget cut at least half of my development time. The platform gave us most of the complicated parts of the project for free. We spent our time writing the few code files that specified the actual business logic.”
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Case studies

Theme customizations powered by AI to help merchants market their products better layouts and product positioning.

30 hours

to build
“Gadget will be my go-to platform for creating any application in the future.”
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Reduced developer onboarding time from 45 days to just a few hours, and launched their first Gadget app in less than a week.

5 days

to build

90%

faster onboarding
“With Gadget, you build so fast that you know you are using the right product to develop. With Gadget, you build with confidence and with trust.”
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Planet of the vapes
Saved hundreds of hours of manual work by creating an app that would automatically update the blog with the latest pricing for featured products

100+

blogs automated

5 days

to build
“Everything that requires something to respond — webhooks, stuff like that — fire up Gadget, connect to a model and apply your logic. We’re definitely going to use Gadget in the future.”
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