Live
Merchant Migrate
Audit and guided fix tooling for WooCommerce stores moving through Google Merchant API migration pressure.
Products with hard boundaries.
SideLabs builds software for specific ecosystem problems: migrations, diagnostics, workflow bottlenecks, and operational gaps that already have demand. The root domain is the studio surface. Each real product gets its own sharper subdomain.
Product index
Product lanes and subdomains.
No featured darling on the studio homepage. This is a portfolio surface: what is live, what is under research, and what kind of software SideLabs is actually willing to build.
Research
Feed Auditor
Diagnostics and prioritization tooling for catalog health after migration, when native merchant tooling is too broad and too noisy.
Research
Deal Analyzer
Narrow underwriting and decision support tooling for buyers who need a faster go / no-go workflow, not a giant operating system.
Later
Host Tools
Possible host-side workflow software, but only if the product can stay structurally stable and avoid the maintenance trap of fragile UI automation.
Operating rules
Studio principles.
The constraints should be visible. SideLabs is not trying to look broad. It is trying to be selective enough that each product earns its own surface.
Deadlines beat vague “productivity”.
Deprecations, broken migrations, compliance pressure, and operational bottlenecks are better demand sources than abstract efficiency claims.
Products should live where buyers already look.
Plugin directories, app stores, ecosystem search, and workflow-level surfaces matter more than broad audience-building.
If it is fragile by nature, it is expensive by nature.
SideLabs drops ideas that require permanent babysitting just to remain functional after somebody else changes a UI or policy.
Every product needs a clean reason to exist.
If the sentence gets muddy, the surface is too broad or the underlying pain is not strong enough.
Studio method
The SideLabs system.
Research the pressure point, validate the architecture early, then earn a dedicated subdomain. The root site stays studio-level on purpose.
Find a break.
Start with ecosystem pain that already has urgency and language around it.
Ship the wedge.
Build the smallest version that can still be sold honestly and survive direct usage.
Earn the subdomain.
Give products their own site only when they have clear buyers, stable scope, and economics.