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Comment by hendzen | Hacker News Reader

Did you guys talk to your legal department before going live with this? As Shopify is a public company, showing sales/revenue stats like this in real time might be in violation of SEC regulation FD if you did not alert all your investors.

EDIT: Actually, since they are a Canadian company they are exempt [0] from regulation FD. Interesting!

[0] - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515...

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So it turns out the SEC lets you use even things like Twitter to give out information, as long as it can go to every shareholder at the same time [I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER, IGNORE ME].

see: https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/13...

You still have to formally tell your investors that you will be using Twitter (or some other internet platform) to disseminate said information.

This Shopify data could definitely be used to gain an edge in trading their stock. You basically compute projected earnings based on the sales per-second rate reported on the site and compare against their earnings guidance from the previous quarter (or analyst predictions). If the projected earnings go below the projection, you sell, otherwise you buy.

This is on their website. Therefore it's already an accepted source of information for stock related material. Since it is public and went out to everyone at the same time, it should be fine.

Looks like it’s been up for at least a year[1], so I expect they’ve thought about that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637715

You'd think it'd perform better, on my i5 with 16GB of ram its laggy as can be.

Edit: Keep the downvotes up, but having this site eat a full core is a bit ridiculous. Similar sites are much more performant.

Any examples of similar sites? It smashes a core of my laptop (i7 / 16GB) as well, but every site I've been to that looks like this (3D realtime) does the same thing, so I'm used to it.

Works smoothly enough on a MacBook Air 1.6GHz with 4GB RAM and Windows 10.

Works smoothly for me - i5 and 16 gigs of RAM.

Doesn't for me. i5 and 24 gigs of RAM.

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