Black Friday and Cyber Monday Live Map
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Live Map
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#2I think Ali also has one for 11/11? Maybe I am mistaken...
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#3Open the dev console for some fun... debugShopify()
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#4As someone who spent a bit too much time on designing and developing live Pi powered dashboards for his home office I can truly appreciate a visualization like this.
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#5> Normal users
Yay it's Black Friday / Cyber Monday! lets keep shopping!
> HN Crowd
Oooh another lava lamp, look at all those live payments! That's cool!
> Tinfoilers
Is it me or is it scary that Shopify can see my live payments in real time?
> Me
Meh. It's a Friday, I'm going to party tonight.
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#7> Normal users Yay it's Black Friday / Cyber Monday! lets keep shopping! > HN Crowd Oooh another lava lamp, look at all those live payments! That's cool! > Tinfoilers Is it me or is it scary that Shopify can see my live payments in real time? > Me Meh. It's a Friday, I'm going to party tonight.
I'm in for partying
Re: Black Friday and Cyber Monday Live Map
#8China seems way too quiet. There's ~8k orders per minute, and only ~200 per minute (~2.5%) come from China?
I feel like it is likely the "corporate" end is the HQ in America. But then we're using these lines to calculate shipping distances.
Or, IDK, maybe everything is already in a warehouse on the mainland.
Re: Black Friday and Cyber Monday Live Map
#9China seems way too quiet. There's ~8k orders per minute, and only ~200 per minute (~2.5%) come from China? I feel like it is likely the "corporate" end is the HQ in America. But then we're using these lines to calculate shipping distances. Or, IDK, maybe everything is already in a warehouse on the mainland.
AFAIK China doesn't do much black Friday stuff. Iirc they have singles day which just crushes BF in sales
https://america.cgtn.com/2019/11/29/black-friday-how-us-reta...
Re: Black Friday and Cyber Monday Live Map
#10We've had a live sales map for every Black Friday over the last 10 years. Somewhat refined it every year with the web becoming better and better.
The first ones were a bunch of divs over a png of the world, then canvas with SVG arcs, now webgl. It's a ridiculously busy time at Shopify each year and an event we take very seriously to get right.