Chanakya Ramdev

Founder & CEO of @sweatfreedotco (featured in CBC, CTV, Bloomberg, etc.) | UWaterloo Engineering, Environment, Varsity Rowing | Ex: BlackBerry, Bombardier | Veg

[Jessica Hertz @jessicarhertz]

Black Friday scoreboard: @Shopify merchants hit a new record of $6.2B in sales (up 25% YoY; 22% constant currency), peaking at $5.1M / minute.

Watching our merchants run up the score year after year never gets old.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

$6.2 billion on Black Friday, up 25% from last year (22% on a constant currency basis). A new record for @Shopify merchants.

Peak: $5.1 million in sales per minute at 12:01 PM EST.

Black Friday isn’t local anymore. It’s global. And it belongs to the entrepreneurs building on Shopify.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Crushed it

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Congratulations to our merchants on another record breaking Black Friday. LFG

→ Merchants total Black Friday sales were $6.2 billion, up 25% YoY
→ Edge peaked at 489 million requests per minute. App servers handled a peak of 117 million requests per minute, up 40% from last year
→ Shopify’s egress processed 237 billion requests
→ Peak database queries reached over 53 million per second and writes reached over 2 million per second
→ API processed over 31 million requests per minute at peak

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

developers today:

[Shopify @Shopify]

no one:

entrepreneurs today:

[Shopify @Shopify]

merchants hit new milestones every day

take a look at a few who accomplished 10K, 100K, or 1M lifetime orders this holiday season

congratulations

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

What an incredible Black Friday.

@Shopify merchants hit a high of $5.1 million in sales per minute and more than 30 million shoppers have purchased from a Shopify merchant today.

Entrepreneurs: we see you. We see all of you. Those who are built different.

[DHH @dhh]

This is so ridiculously over-the-top! An OS sim with dragable windows, a pinball game that's really playable, and the bonkers sales globe already showing more than 32,000 orders per minute running through Rails. Shopify's BFCM celebration is next level. https://t.co/jc3iE6WiAF

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Peak sales hit $5.1 (!) million per minute right around noon today across the Shopify platform.

https://t.co/M5xfYjG7KA

[Nasdaq Exchange @NasdaqExchange]

Welcoming @Shopify and Shopify merchant guests to the @NasdaqExchange Opening Bell to kick off Black Friday https://t.co/3dV9AMA1dO

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Every 26 seconds, a new merchant makes their first sale on @Shopify. Welcome to the club.

[David Cameron @dave_cameron]

9 years at @Shopify today 🎉

Leading work on Shopify Functions and Polaris. Watching millions of merchants rely on these tools during BFCM never gets old.

The best part? Still learning something new every week, still building alongside an incredible @ShopifyDevs community.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

The Live Globe is back on @SphereVegas

100% live data, rendered in real-time, built with threejs, React, and a lot of shaders

3…2…1…

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Good luck to every @Shopify merchant gearing up for tomorrow. You’re built different. This weekend, let’s prove it. 🚀

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

The Shopify Live Globe is back this Black Friday!

And we built a pinball game out of it.

It runs at 120fps in a browser with a full 3d environment, physics engine, VR support and more. 👀

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

S O O O O F U U U U N

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Hint: one code is the four letters everyone is saying this weekend

https://t.co/8VPlNAbekU

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

The @Shopify Live Globe is NOW live 🌎

This year, it’s not just something you watch — it’s something you play.

Introducing the Live Globe pinball machine:

A retro, interactive experience inspired by the ‘80s and ‘90s, celebrating every merchant win in real time.

1️⃣ Hidden cheat codes that unlock secret game modes and effects
2️⃣ Real-time merchant milestones that trigger confetti and multipliers
3️⃣ A full pinball experience wrapped around global shopping data

The biggest weekend in commerce just leveled up.

[Shopify @Shopify]

Shopify Live Globe 2025 https://t.co/2bTVaPM9PT