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Robleh Jama

Shopify Black Friday Live Map - Real-time stream of Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend sales

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The Black Friday Live Map is a real-time look at Shopify merchant sales throughout the most important shopping weekend in North America.

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Steven Michael Thomas
Maker
Hi everyone! 🌎 🌍 🌏 At Shopify, we rally around the Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend because it’s a significant moment for our 600,000+ merchants. Black Friday Cyber Monday is no longer the exclusive domain of big box retailers - in 2017, Shopify merchants generated $1 billion in sales over the four days. To show this phenomenon in real time, we’ve revamped our annual live sales map. The map provides a one-of-a-kind view into events as they unfold throughout BFCM, from granular details to global trends. Explore the live map to see everything from the distance far-flung international shipments have traveled, the rate of sales per minute across Shopify, or, even a flash sale in progress. This map was built using WebGL and three.js to create something that is interactive and able to handle all of the data flowing through it. We hope you enjoy it! Steve
Evan Farrell
@stevenwhatevr Hey! Was Jacky Chiu involved with this at all? I know he helped build 'live view' for merchants, is this similar?
Steven Michael Thomas
Maker
@evan_farrell Similar! The Live View exists inside a merchant's shop so they can view sales for their business in real time. We are big fans of real time!
Rishiraj Purohit
@evan_farrell @stevenwhatevr Do you use sockets for real time?
Steven Michael Thomas
Maker
@evan_farrell @ri5hiraj We didn't! We used long-polling with chunked encoding. Easier to debug and monitor, and more resilient to reconnections, etc.
Cristan Brown
This is so cool!
kozen
We're also running a Black Friday promotion on @skydroneaero with our shop. Check it out.
Tim J. Elliott
Time to get the popcorn and watch how much money Shopify can pull in today. #TrumpEconomics
James Gill
Absolutely love this! So cool to see what's happening across the Shopify network. We did something similar at GoSquared a few years back if you like your 3D Globes 🌎 https://www.gosquared.com/labs/g...
Nitesh Manav
Happy to see this interactive BF Shopify Map. In fact, This is the only featured ProductHunt launch this year which has "Black Friday" in it's title. :) Like many others I had also launched Black Friday Linkbox today on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/post... after contacting many SaaS founders and collecting multiple amazing deals through this launch : https://www.producthunt.com/post... But none of them got featured on ProductHunt. :( We later contacted PH and they told us that No black friday related curated lists have every got or will ever get featured on PH except the last year when they were experimenting by allowing it .. but probably they didn't receive good feedback from community and hence dropped featured this kind of lists. Anyways, if you want to go through 100+ Black Friday deals within 2 minutes, do check out this amazing list here. https://dealsup.date/producthunt Thank you.
Aydin Mirzaee

Encouraging to see how you can sell globally and that real people are doing it.

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Looks really cool!

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Wish it existed everyday!

Joshua Dance
Why doesn't Shopify make a global search that all its merchants could opt into? Feels like something like that could rival certain parts of Amazon.
John Dohertson
@joshdance this is a part of corporate policy and the only way to survive in the complicated competitive market. I am an admin of a https://www.moviesjoy.net web site and we also don't give any statistics by the similar way. Additional info for the competitors and tomorrow you are on the second place.
Joshua Dance
@john_dohertson you misunderstood me. Shopify could be add a search bar for all their merchants. Globally search products so people could find and buy awesome stuff easier.