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Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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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.

I've wanted this exact same thing. I've used `site:myshopify.com item` to search via Shopify URL pattern in Google

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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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.

Communication is information transfer that makes a difference. Your comment is noise.

Everyone knows what thousands of kilometres means.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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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.

My lab scale shows me grams to the thousandth (the accuracy is only to the hundredths). Would you have it show me 7000mg instead? What about 17000mg?

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.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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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.

We were surprised by this as well, but since one didn't exist, we started to create one!

https://vendazzo.com/

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.

Re: Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map

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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.

You can do this with the Shop mobile app (it's an official Shopify product). I think stores are defaulted to showing up but they have are able to opt out.
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