Shopify Freelancer in the Philippines: What to Expect
Considering a Shopify freelancer from the Philippines? Understand the costs, benefits, and how to find the right developer for your project.
I Own TheOutcome.
I Own The
Outcome.
I build Shopify stores, web apps and AI systems for businesses that need someone to own the problem, not just close the ticket. I built and sold my own product to 7,000 users, so I think about revenue and retention too.
- 7,000+ users
- 400% daily sales lift
- 3,000+ studying weekly
I Own TheOutcome.
I Own The
Outcome.
I build Shopify stores, web apps and AI systems for businesses that need someone to own the problem, not just close the ticket. I built and sold my own product to 7,000 users, so I think about revenue and retention too.
- 7,000+ users
- 400% daily sales lift
- 3,000+ studying weekly
Case study / letpass.phLive · 7,000+ users
I had my paywall backwards.
AI review platform for the Philippine teacher licensure exam. Around 200,000 people sit it every year. I built it, priced it, and sell it. Solo.
Pick a step to see it in the product
0
early 2026
2,100+
mid Jul
3,000+
late Jul
7,000+
Aug 2026
Registered users at four milestones, not a continuous series.
Paying users and partners fund premium access for teachers who cannot afford it. I take no income from LETPass.
See the LETPass case study →I don't start with the code. I start with the problem.
The same five questions, in the same order, whether it is your storefront or my own product. Each one below is answered by the case study above it.
01
Problem
What is actually broken. Usually not the thing you were told to build.
On LETPass the diagnosis was pricing, not features.
02
Users
Where people get confused, hesitate, or quietly leave.
Nobody paid for a coach they had never been allowed to try.
03
Solution
The smallest thing worth building to test the answer.
I moved the paywall. The product itself did not change.
04
Measurement
Deciding what number would tell us it worked, before shipping.
Daily sales, tracked against the month before.
05
Iteration
What the real usage says to fix next, once it is live.
Still my main build, still changing every week.
What I Can
Fix For You
Three kinds of problem people hand me. Open the one that sounds like yours.
Storefronts built to convert, not just to launch. I find where buyers hesitate, fix the product page and checkout friction causing it, and make the whole thing fast enough on a phone that nobody leaves waiting. Custom themes and app integrations where they earn their keep.
ShopifyLiquidHydrogenCustom ThemesApp Integrations
Improve my Shopify store →You describe the problem, I own it end to end: data model, build, deploy, monitoring, and the decisions in between. No handoffs, no waiting on a second contractor, and no discovering at launch that nobody owned the boring half.
Full-StackAPI IntegrationsCI/CDState Management
Build my product →Automation for the repetitive work eating your week, and AI features your customers actually use. Scoped around one real business problem, shipped with guardrails, and measured against what it was supposed to save. Not a demo.
Claude APIOpenAIRAGVercel AI SDK
Add AI to my business →Frontend DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentPerformance & OptimizationReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLCore Web Vitals
Client work
A lot of it isn't public.
For the last three years I have built Shopify storefronts, web applications and AI features for clients. Most of that work sits behind an NDA, so I cannot publish it here.
What I can do is walk you through the relevant parts privately, on a call, in as much detail as you need.
I also automated my own Shopify delivery workflow with AI and cut my time on it by roughly 60%. That is my own efficiency, not a client dashboard.
- Problem
- What was actually broken, and how we found out.
- Role
- What I owned, and what I pushed back on.
- Architecture
- The stack and data decisions, and their trade-offs.
- CRO decisions
- What we changed to move the number, and why.
- Outcome
- What shipped, what moved, what I would redo.
CraftedWith Purpose
A curated selection of projects that blend technical rigor with thoughtful design, built to solve real problems and scale.
ABOUT ME
I'm Kyle, a full-stack developer from the Philippines. For the last three years I've shipped Shopify storefronts, web apps, and AI features for clients worldwide.
I went in on a civic thesis rather than a market one: better teachers produce better citizens.
I turned down a full-time offer from a big company as a fresh grad to keep building it.
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Have a problem
worth solving?
Tell me what you are building, what is not working, or where you are stuck. I will help you figure out what should happen next.
What are you building?