Product Notes (inspired by NYT "Cooking Notes")

Shopify Apps
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Topic summary

Goal: Find a Shopify app to add customer-written “Planting Notes” on plant species pages, modeled after NYT Cooking Notes (short, experience-based tips), focused on gardening experiences rather than product reviews.

Requested capabilities:

  • Moderation to remove inaccurate/inappropriate comments.
  • Voting (like/useful/not useful) and sorting by helpfulness.
  • Notes tied to each plant species, emphasizing general cultivation tips over product ratings.

Latest update:

  • A respondent is not aware of an existing Shopify App Store solution and offers custom development, providing contact details.

Status and next steps:

  • No off‑the‑shelf app identified; no decision made.
  • Options: continue searching for a reviews/notes app supporting helpfulness voting, or pursue custom development.
  • Open question: Whether any third‑party app can be configured to replicate a “Cooking Notes”-style feature set.
Summarized with AI on December 27. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello! We’re looking for an app that will allow our customers to write “Planting Notes” on the plant species we sell. We would need the ability to easily delete comments that are inaccurate/inappropriate and we’d like there to be an option for other folks to either “like” or indicate if the comment was/wasn’t useful - then the comments would get listed based on how liked/helpful they are.

So, this would be similar to product reviews - but they wouldn’t be judging our product, but rather commenting on their experience gardening with the plant species in general (basically a creative way to crowdsource and showcase lots of valuable plant knowledge/experience). It would be similar to the New York Times “Cooking Notes” where folks write about their experience with the recipe - but in our case, folks would be writing about their experience with each plant species.

2

Sounds like a really cool idea! Don’t think the App Store has a solution for you. Would love to custom develop an app for you. Drop an email at trivi.madhu@gmail.com . Let’s talk more :slightly_smiling_face: