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Shopify live dashboard
- trizoza 3y agoLove the city facts. Well executed.
- ewpratten 3y agoAccording to my rough math, they've charged $100M worth of transaction fees at this point
- mparnisari 3y agoLove this. Cool to see how the west coast is still mostly asleep :D
- aquova 3y agoWhat is their basis for the "Carbon Removed" stat?
- olivier_martel 3y agoHilarious, should be carbon added by all this unnecessary consumption made easy by them.
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- toomuchtodo 3y agoDefine necessary consumption. You cannot, because everyone's wants, needs, and desires are different. People will consume. If they do, behaviorally nudge them in ways to offset the harm (verified carbon offsets; not junk ones of course). Similarly to how certain cohorts loudly complain that EVs are not a component of a climate change mitigation plan. Almost 90M cars a year are sold globally; no one cares if they don't think they're the answer, they're going to get sold, so make sure the units that move are EVs. TLDR Provide solutions not opinions, opinions are like startup ideas without executive behind them: worthless. Direct air capture is the gold standard for carbon offsets. It is expensive, hopefully it will get cheaper, but we must start somewhere until the entire supply chain electrifies.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y agoWell you dismissed the idea of defining it before the commenter had a chance, so are you really making an honest argument here? If a policymaker wanted to ban “unnecessary consumption” they would come up with a list of what that is and whether your purchase would be banned or not would depend on whether you’re buying something from that list, which they can also incrementally grow over time.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoI encourage someone to try it to speed run their political career to provide us the natural experiment we can observe. Constituents will accept taxes and other disincentives (see alcohol), they will not tolerate some political rep telling them what is unnecessary consumption and banning their desired products (broadly speaking, there are always exceptions and nuance). Walk the pavement like you would for a day running for office, ask your potential voters if they would like this policy. I’ve canvassed multiple times for US political reps, so I have an idea what this looks like. A small amount of fiat to offset harm is far more palatable. Look at this dashboard spin. Don’t yell at humanity, provide it better options.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y agoThe politician’s career is irrelevant. We’re just talking about whether it is possible to define and you’ve been given a rational response suggesting it might be. Heck, it might be possible to ask AI to generate a list of items or criteria.
- Symbiote 3y agoMany EU governments and the UK have defined lists of untaxed goods, mostly staple foods. The UK: > Food and drink for human consumption is usually zero-rated but some items are always standard-rated. These include catering, alcoholic drinks, confectionery, crisps and savoury snacks, hot food, sports drinks, hot takeaways, ice cream, soft drinks and mineral water. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-and-services https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-...
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThe site needs to be hosted without TLS at the very least.
- nosefurhairdo 3y agoBlaming a reduction in transaction costs for increased consumption is seriously missing the mark. I don't know if there's data for this, but I can imagine that by improving the online shopping experience Shopify could have reduced the amount of unnecessary physical shopping trips thereby indirectly reducing carbon emissions. This analysis out of MIT would support that theory: https://ctl.mit.edu/pub/thesis/environmental-analysis-us-online-shopping https://ctl.mit.edu/pub/thesis/environmental-analysis-us-onl... Fortunately, you are not the dictator of "necessary" consumption.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoLooking at Fig 2 in the Executive Summary pdf, most of the CO2e emissions for physical shopping is from customer transportation to store - between 50-80% for the various scenarios they considered. For online shopping about 50% of the emissions are from packaging. The main lessons I see are - If you drive, then switching to online will reduce emissions by about 30%. - If you don't drive, and instead bus or walk to shopping stores, then your emissions will be about 10-20% of the car-drivers or online shoppers.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.shopify.com/climate/bfcm https://www.shopify.com/climate/bfcm (From the link on the dashboard when you click that stat) > All orders made through our platform over the Black Friday Cyber Monday shopping weekend will ship carbon neutral. > Here's how it works: A rigorous formula built by Shopify data scientists calculates the estimated carbon emissions for each Black Friday Cyber Monday shipment. We then team up with Shopify Sustainability Fund partners to remove CO2 emissions equal to the BFCM shipping footprint. > The result? You can ensure carbon-neutral shipping on all of your BFCM orders.
- tallanvor 3y agoWhich is BS, of course. There's no way to really measure this.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoWould you mind sharing your credentials and domain expertise on the topic?
- tacker2000 3y agoWell you can somewhat calculate the CO2 emitted by a parcel shipped from X to Y. Of course it will depend on loads of factors, like did they use a plane, a truck, a barge with one guy sitting inside rowing gently down the stream, etc… so im not sure how exact their numbers will be. Basically it means nothing anyway, but companies love to tout how “green” they are, dont they?
- theduder99 3y agoI get that its virtue signaling but who is the intended audience who would actually believe it and appreciate it?
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- lebean 3y agoIt's a cool thing to add to your company website.
- tacker2000 3y agoThey basically pay someone else to “remove carbon” and can the throw this magic number in there. So yea…
- fijiaarone 3y agoWhy pay someone else when you have your own “carbon removal” program and just pocket the profits? Of course, you’ll still need to purchase the Certified Genuine Carbon Credit Approved Organic Green Sticker (R) (TM) (501c3) (NGO) (LLC) to prove you are worthy to sequester other people’s consumption sins.
- gravitronic 3y agoI see lots of criticism in this thread and elsewhere about that carbon removed stat. I would love to see more productive criticism, where people make suggestions on how they could do it better, instead of just criticizing a company of this scale at least doing something. Or examples of companies that are doing a better job of it. Personally I'd prefer if they didn't call it carbon removed unless they were actually doubling the shipping carbon removal, and they should call it offsets unless it's all coming from some of their direct capture partners (which iirc Shopify does buy from).
- xkekjrktllss 3y ago>I would love to see more productive criticism, where people make suggestions on how they could do it better Not do it at all, because it's obviously bullshit. Even in the best of cases, it's a speculative con. The only purpose is to make people feel good about consuming more, which they do to distract from their miserable and alienated existence in late-capitalist society.
- nozzlegear 3y ago> which they do to distract from their miserable and alienated existence in late-capitalist society. Is that so?
- oritsnile 3y agoWow, these customizations are crazy. Flying in airplane mode makes it look like a war zone.
- rossdavidh 3y agoI like it, but a comparison to last year's Black Friday (at this time of day) is what I would really like to see. But, still, cool.
- vachina 3y agoAll I see is all your base belongs to me (Shopify)
- 59nadir 3y agoThis somehow crashed my browser. Cool interface, though. I liked the Stripe one a bit more in terms of actual stats and overall I would've liked to see more stats from both. Maybe they'll do reports after.
- 1970-01-01 3y agoThe airplanes are doing .001c
- _joel 3y agoPlane or I.S.S.?
- 1970-01-01 3y agoPlanes on this map.
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- jorams 3y agoThis is really cool, and (unlike the Stripe one) doesn't crash my browser nor does it lag on my devices. The city facts are a nice addition, but most of the cities I search for don't have enough data despite showing up in the suggestions, which is annoying. The customization options are fun to play around with though, and especially airplane mode is a nice touch.
- obiefernandez 3y agoBut, but... Rails doesn't scale!!!!!
- hschne 3y agoYou beat me to it. In all seriousness though, I'd love to know more about Shopify's infrastructure. Pretty marvelous how they handle such an enormous influx of load.
- ndriscoll 3y agoThe dashboard shows 25k orders per minute right now (~400/s). A modern server shouldn't even be close to 1% utilization to handle that.
- qiller 3y agoWhile 400 TPS might not be huge, there is still a lot of processing that goes into placing each order, and it's easy to underestimate the necessary capacity. Latencies add up (a call to a tax service, a call to a shipping service, etc), state adds up, and suddenly it's way over 1%.
- ndriscoll 3y agoLatency doesn't affect throughput. As soon as you fire off a call to an external vendor, your server can work on processing the next request. It doesn't matter if that call takes 10 ms or 5 seconds. Even if it took 30 seconds, that means you need to be able to handle 12k concurrent requests (almost all of which are asleep), which is nothing.
- ZephyrBlu 3y agoCreating an order isn't a stateless process.
- onion2k 3y agoAre you assuming that 1 order is one inbound request, one database transaction, and one outbound response? Because it isn't that. You need to integrate with address verification services, fraud detection, payment services, stock management, communications like email and alerting, telemetry, and more. It's all manageable and a lot of it can be queued, but it's still hard.
- 0xDEF 3y agoShopify has been able to scale to this using a Ruby on Rails monolith and a few Go/Rust services. Impressive.
- xal 3y agoWe have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like you might see fireworks when a store has their first ever sale, and there are lots of fun city stats which are part generated by GPT4. On desktop you can also open the nerd menu and play around with the settings and share the link to your creation.
- cloudking 3y agoAwesome work! You should break down the development in a blog post
- JLCarveth 3y ago+1, it's especially cool how it breaks down different statistics by city. Really great work.
- rickitan 3y agoThere's some interesting tech details on this thread: https://twitter.com/gilgNYC/status/1728066825013866543 https://twitter.com/gilgNYC/status/1728066825013866543
- adhi01 3y agoFound this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL https://youtu.be/T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL
- purple_ferret 3y agowhy is looking up Jerusalem, Israel blocked?
- JLCarveth 3y agoIt doesn't seem blocked, it says "Not enough data" when you select it.
- tiberriver256 3y agoAmazing how concentrated the wealth of the world is.
- iforgotpassword 3y agoI think first and foremost it shows in which countries Shopify is the most present.
- andsoitis 3y agoOther measures indicate similar concentration in roughly the same places (excl. maybe China), such as a light pollution (indicator of energy usage): https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/
- iforgotpassword 3y agoChina obviously, there's not much they wouldn't just buy on domestic platforms using domestic payment services, but almost all of Asia is pretty dark on Shopify, compared to your map. I guess they're just not a thing there, plus maybe black friday itself. Also, the UK is disproportionately brighter on the Shopify map compared to the rest of Europe. Interestingly, light pollution seems pretty low in Germany compared to the Netherlands, but in Shopify it seems to almost be the inverse.
- Symbiote 3y agoIt was either night or very late evening in most of Asia when you wrote that comment.
- iforgotpassword 3y agoDefinitely a factor, but Japan and Hong Kong were going pretty strong compared to the rest, so there's at least that. Would've expected Taiwan to show up in a similar fashion, but also almost nothing there.
- who-shot-jr 3y agoStunning! I wonder how they did the globe animation with real time data.
- Omnipresent 3y agoWhat library is used to make the frontend globe rendering? Its pretty fast and not laggy on my chrome browser.
- romainsimon 3y agothree.js Probably something like that https://github.com/vasturiano/three-globe https://github.com/vasturiano/three-globe
- pushmatrix 3y agoWe built it from scratch with React Three Fiber, a React library on top of three.js. Super powerful framework. We'll be doing a full technical breakdown in a few weeks :)
- entropie 3y agoAre the obvious reasons that there is so much more activity in GB and RU than other parts in europe others than one can assume (brexit, sanctions)? I would love to read about changing patterns because of real life events. (Like the rumour that american water plants have problems during superbowl commercials because of toilet flushing but in a larger scale)
- polyterative 3y ago2 fps on my machine
- FredPret 3y agoThe US economy is something else. Look at all that activity!
- xkekjrktllss 3y agoThe 'carbon removed' figure is so extremely cringe
- JLCarveth 3y agoDo you have any better criticism than that something is "cringe"? Otherwise this reads like something a teenager would write.
- xkekjrktllss 3y agoIt's obviously utter nonsense. No serious and/or somewhat intelligent person could interpret said figure to have any useful meaning or need this explained to them. It's just plain bullshit.
- JLCarveth 3y agoSo I take it you're not a serious or intelligent person if you can't describe what you find "cringe" about a "carbon removed" statistic. Perhaps you should ask yourself why such a simple statistic bothers you so much.
- xkekjrktllss 3y agoNo carbon has been removed from anywhere. It's just made up. It's as simple as that.
- nozzlegear 3y agoShopify will quite literally remove the carbon from the air via the Direct Air Capture plants that they've purchased [1]. They're not saying "hey buy from us and we won't knock down a tree," they're literally pulling carbon from the air via DACs. It's as simple as that. [1] https://news.shopify.com/shopify-purchases-more-direct-air-capture-dac-carbon-removal-than-any-other-company https://news.shopify.com/shopify-purchases-more-direct-air-c...
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- wkjagt 3y agoApart from the actual thing being impressive, I think I’m even more impressed that this runs smoothly on my 2016 iPhone SE.
- slavoingilizov 3y agoGBP and EUR volumes are pretty similar (just north of 500K atm). I find this interesting. How can one country equal sales of the whole Eurozone? Is that more showing of commerce activity or the popularity of Black Friday in those countries?
- SSLy 3y agoI'd guess a lot of shops in the Eurozone don't use shopify but locally-supplied competition.
- gardenhedge 3y agoHow do you find shopify shops?
- adhi01 3y agoSome insight on this by one of the devs: https://youtu.be/T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL https://youtu.be/T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL
- KhunKaungSan 3y ago[flagged]
- zestyping 3y agoAside from the globe itself, most of the movement in this animation is the frenetic ticking of digits as the "sales per minute", "unique shoppers", "orders per minute" and "carbon removed" numbers change. All of these numbers are actually updated only once every 10 seconds, but the animation makes all the digits scramble for 8 out of those 10 seconds for no reason other than to look busy. Don't do that. Don't distort the information. Don't make it harder to read the information. Don't waste the user's visual attention on things that don't matter. Spend it on things that are meaningful.