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Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

#31
Gosh I've really enjoyed using the Shop Pay checkout experience on an increasingly large number of ecommerce sites this past few months. It didn't really click until recently that this was all Shopify backed!

Makes me think it might not be too late to figure out a sensible valuation for NYSE:SHOP and invest.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

#32

Slightly off topic but I am always surprised Shopify hasn't every created something akin to the amazon homepage that allows you to browse and find items at shopify stores more seamlessly.

Despite using the same platform, no two companies setup their product catalogs the same way, from how multiple products/colorways are grouped together to metafields are used to communicate more nuanced product features. There's simply no way Shopify could hope to present a unified catalog given those implementation nuances.

Yep, this is pretty much it. Amazon has the advantage that they are able to force their sellers to specify metadata about their products in very specific ways, which allows them to build on top of that consistency. With Shopify, as tomnipotent said, its all over the place, and it only gets worse as you cross languages.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

#33

Slightly off topic but I am always surprised Shopify hasn't every created something akin to the amazon homepage that allows you to browse and find items at shopify stores more seamlessly.

Despite using the same platform, no two companies setup their product catalogs the same way, from how multiple products/colorways are grouped together to metafields are used to communicate more nuanced product features. There's simply no way Shopify could hope to present a unified catalog given those implementation nuances.

Maybe it could be opt-in. Specify your metadata in a certain way and you can get in a central homepage.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite using the same platform, no two companies setup their product catalogs the same way, from how multiple products/colorways are grouped together to metafields are used to communicate more nuanced product features. There's simply no way Shopify could hope to present a unified catalog given those implementation nuances.

Maybe it could be opt-in. Specify your metadata in a certain way and you can get in a central homepage.

This feels like the right answer. Everyone already does this already for product feeds to Facebook/Google.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

#35
post #31

Gosh I've really enjoyed using the Shop Pay checkout experience on an increasingly large number of ecommerce sites this past few months. It didn't really click until recently that this was all Shopify backed! Makes me think it might not be too late to figure out a sensible valuation for NYSE:SHOP and invest.

They seem like they’ll be a steady climber. I’m not sure who has the inertia or a compelling enough product to knock them down any time soon.

Having said that, I don’t know anything about this and I only invest for fun/to keep an eye on these things.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

#38

Check out your console some easter eggs. Pretty cool!!! 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 don't see anything impressive TBH. Looks like a simple list of order events from their message bus or something.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

#39

Perhaps this is off topic, but it's always strange to see writing thousands of kilometers. If we're gonna use the meric system let's commit to it: either write megameters or millions of meters. It's a very cool visualization in any case.

Why should there be consistency/commitment? Other than for the sake of itself? Genuinely curious where this desire for things being the way they 'should' be comes from
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