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Post by critical_banjo »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #35
mherdeg wrote: 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.

WooCommerce is growing at a steady pace, with a YoY growth of 50%-100%

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Post by Dave3of5 »

dillondoyle wrote: post #15

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

It's funny how it links to their jobs. I've applied to companies like this in the past the likelihood of you even receiving a reply is close to zero.

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Post by callahad »

bathtub365 wrote: post #46
salmiak wrote: post #40

This is a very clear illustration of the inequalities between the northern and southern hemisphere’s.

One of the biggest inequalities being that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are American inventions aligned with a holiday that doesn’t exist in other countries.

Black Friday seems to be pretty widespread: many German retailers like https://www.galeria.de/ or https://www.mueller.de/ advertise "Black Shopping" today, and it seems common enough in the UK as well.

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.

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Post by adflux »

This reminds me of the time I worked for an ecommerce firm, and one of our customers used the same backend for physical and online shopping. Systems went down due to some bug causing cpu load. People in the store couldnt pay for their goods. Many angry phone calls were had, whilst I frantically searched through the logs to find the bug.

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Post by ksec »

mherdeg wrote: 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.

Every time I checked I thought they were over valued. $200B! But P/E is only 60, and they are still growing. This makes Tobi net worth higher than Jack Dorsey.

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.

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Post by t0bia_s »

mrweasel wrote: post #77
t0bia_s wrote: post #69

When envrionmanetal alarmist cancel Black Friday?

Some stores already have and it was a debate on Danish radio yesterday.

I'm sceptical about cancel culture and overall environmental alarming, but this should be debated more. It is pure consumerism.

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Post by postedthis »

As Retailer on Shopify I want to say:

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…

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