Act 04Mino Bowls case study
A finished design, now with a real checkout
A Delhi bowl-kit brand had a finished design and no way to take an order. We put it on Shopify's headless stack, with a checkout nobody can tamper with.
- Brand
- Mino Bowls
- Industry
- D2C food, pre-portioned bowl kits
- Live
- minobowls.com
- Built
- 4 to 5 Oct 2026, 16 commits
- Stack
- Shopify Hydrogen, React Router, Oxygen
Recorded on minobowls.com, 20 Oct 2026.
01
The brief
Mino Bowls sells pre-portioned dry bowl kits made from pantry staples, cooked at home from a recipe card. Five bowls (protein, fibre, energy, satiety, balanced) at ₹101 to ₹182 a pack, plus four flavour kits.
The design, imagery, nutrition calculator and animation were done, and so were the rules: 10, 15 and 20 percent off at 10, 15 and 20 packs, only the best discount applies, a ₹500 minimum, free delivery in India. The job was to make it sell without redesigning a pixel.
02
What we made
The v4 design running inside Shopify Hydrogen exactly as it was drawn, with real Shopify checkout behind it.
The ingredient builder kept as a "coming soon" playground, so nobody can buy a recipe the brand has not approved.
Legal pages, branded share previews and a 64-frame hero animation.
A redirect theme on the old Shopify domain, so the old store address lands on the new one.
A GitHub pipeline that runs the tests, then deploys a public site and a private preview.
- Shopify Hydrogen
- React Router
- Oxygen
03
The hard part
Anything a browser sends can be edited, so the checkout trusts none of it. The server accepts only a bowl and a quantity, picks the approved product itself, then re-checks availability, price, currency, subtotal and discount against Shopify before it hands back a checkout link. Edited prices, unknown products and custom recipes are turned away. We also switched off old carts and the original design's sample order-confirmation screens, so no customer ever sees an order that does not exist.
04
Proof, with sources.
41 automated checks (21 flow checks, 20 unit tests) run before every deploy.
SourceTest suite in the mino-bowls repo, run in the deploy pipeline.