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The Shopify App Store added 1,318 new apps in the last 14 days. The two weeks before that: 940. Launch volume is up about 40%, and it's been climbing for months. A few numbers that stuck with me:

May 8 saw 233 new apps go live in a single day. Back in March the whole store averaged around 159 a week. One busy Friday in May now beats a full week from two months ago.

Zoom out and it's wilder. About 2,300 apps launched in the last 30 days, against roughly 22,900 in the catalog total. So about 1 in 10 apps in the store today is less than a month old.

If you track this, the dips are just weekends. Weekdays run 90 to 230 launches a day, then it falls to single digits Saturday and Sunday. So most "drops" on the chart are just the weekend, worth checking before you read into them.