Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map
datastories.shopify.com
datastories.shopify.com
It might take a few seconds to tell apart the painting from the Black Friday store. ;-)
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[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death
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We where one the first webshop in the country to have a Black Friday campaign, mostly as an aftertought. The entire thing was just one guy in marketing, me, who hacked together a quick way to add the discounts and then our fantastic team of buyers who used to occasion to clean out old stock and mistaken purchases. We ran with anything from 20 - 90% discounts. As stuff sold out everyone just kept digging into old stock and adding insane discounts. It was so much fun to see items that normally didn't move just sell out in minutes.
The next year everything was more or less normalize, planned and just boring and stressful as expectations from customers where much higher and it became more a quest to keep the servers from crashing.
Wizard: valient knight, I have a quest worthy of honor
You, feeling proud: I AM WORTHY OF SUCH A QUEST
Wizard: Configure a chron job to reboot this server every 24 hours. There is a memory leak that we can't solve and our customers want to buy our stuff
Also that is a ton of data polled like every second. 68 deep array of objects. impressive would be cool to read about their backend
I always like to check out cool things like this try to learn something / see what they did!
Makes me feel very Hackers I'm going to hack the planet as I copy paste view source. But hey, that's how Mr Robot learned ;)
So curious how the internal conversations go when these are proposed, and why they are all so similar.
Makes me think it might not be too late to figure out a sensible valuation for NYSE:SHOP and invest.
Having said that, I don’t know anything about this and I only invest for fun/to keep an eye on these things.
As someone who is on merchant side related to Shopify, SHOP is greatly overvalued
So a product - it is crap, although stock price will most likely go up.
Then I looked at revenue was only ~4 billion. Something doesn't add up. Turns out they have ~$3B from Gain on Sale of Security.
Our mainstream culture generally says growing the GDP helps everyone, that "a rising tide lifts all boats." Some of us see the evidence pointing the other way and avoiding needless shopping helping people more.
on serious note, pretty cool visualization!
Didn’t Google use to have an “inhtml:” operator or something that let you search for matches in the html of pages? Shopify powered websites have commonalities in their html that can give away very quickly the fact to a crawler that it is powered by Shopify, just by looking at the html of the main landing page of the shop.
Also, the DNS entry for a Shopify hosted site, even if using a custom domain, will be either a CNAME pointing to shops.myshopify.com, or an A record pointing to an IP address owned by Shopify, like 23.227.38.65. https://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/23.227.38.65
We still have a long ways to go, but you can search for items and filter based on things like category and distance (if you are trying to shop locally). We're doing things on a very tight budget at the moment, so sometimes the site goes down, but we're working on it :)
If you have any feedback, we would love to hear it.
Store scams someone and Shopify takes the hit.
Probably hands-down the most irritating metadata issue with Amazon is when sellers don't include quantity information properly - or even include quantity in the title when selling just one size - which I'm sure they do on purpose to make price per unit shopping more difficult.
Sometimes the way the items are listed will be different between one product and another made by the same company, or between Amazon's listing and a third party's listing for the same general product...and they each have different types of the item available. Say, Amazon will sell Ken's Socks in purple and blue, all sizes in purple but only small in blue...while Blankenship E
Things seem to get especially messy when you have a matrix of two 'flavors' (such as a sub-model and color, or unit size), and not all combinations were manufactured or available.
Even the UI isn't consistent. Sometimes it's a drop-down list, sometimes it's the rectangles.
Oh, and often the model/part number isn't entered...
Upside of an aggregator is discovery/distribution. Downside is you rely on the aggregator for that discovery/distribution.
Rare for billion dollar businesses to be built on aggregators, not so rare for them to be built on platforms.
It bugs me the Shopify engineering team are spending their time making gimmicks like this rather than improving their platform. (Which is lacking features, buggy and requires you to install about 15 different addons just to function…
I'd argue that doing marketing is part of improving the platform too.
Heck, some British retailers are even co-opting the 4th of July as a sales holiday for local businesses: "Independents' Day."
Never underestimate the inexorable march of capitalism.
Plus you don't say when this was. Looking at social media profiles in job applications was a bit of a (silly) trend 5 or 6 years ago.
It's a very cool visualization in any case.
I think it’s much better to pick a unit that makes the most sense for the bulk of your readings and abuse it instead of changing units on me. Imagine if it went from 999mg to 1g, now imagine it trying to settle between them. Or you are weighing a dozen items that are all expected to have a weight of about 1g and need to log the results - think of the unnecessary cognitive overhead the changing units would cause.
I just cooked a recipe where it asked me for 100 grams of a paste, 90 grams of a liquid, 70 grams of a powder, 30 grams of a spice, 15 grams of another liquid. Do people in other countries have measuring spoons in gram size? And do you always tell people whether you meant by volume or weight? Tablespoons, teaspoons, cups and ounces just seems easier than having to measure a fraction of some large number.
Grams are a mass measure. A recipe calling for X grams of Y requires a scale to be accurately followed. Volumetric measurements, e.g. teaspoons and ounces, are easier to follow, but they're less accurate. (Canonical example is salt. Ask for a mass measurement of salt, and you'll always get the same amount of it. Ask for a volumetric quantity, and your mileage [hehe] will vary based on what type of salt is used.)
Our current system is basically the social consensus of what is easiest.
I have literally never heard the term “megameter” used in conversation and I’m pretty sure if you said it in any metric country you would get blank stares.
All road signs, the distance indicator on the entertainment system in planes, etc. are always set out like that (e.g. 1617 km to Cairns, or 11,980 km to Dubai).
From my point of view (whole life in a country that is exclusively metric), it would be really strange to see this kind of distance written in millions of metres or megametres. Would feel totally unintuitive.