Yesterday we sent out invitation tokens to everyone who signed up to the shopify announcement list.

The responses we got so far were fantastic. I cannot even describe how incredible it feels to see so many people excited about the product of 2 years labor. High five to everyone in the team and thanks to all the people who have been rooting for us!

About 1.500 stores signed up for the sneak preview yesterday. At times we were pushing 1mb per second in traffic and went to just shy of 100 hits per second. Everything worked as intended. The Database shrugged it off and Liquid was happily compiling templates as it should.

Shift+control said:

For something as ubiquitous as e-commerce, it’s been too expensive for regular people to get into for too long – hopefully Shopify can change that the same way Blogger and LiveUpdate did for personal websites a few years ago.

and Daniel McClelland noted:

The admin side of the site looks very impressive with a nice feel to the interface, everything is neatly organised and the features are impressively simple to use. Along with the admin section is a Look and Feel section, which allows you to choose from the many pre-designed themes. Each one look as good as the last which could easily pass as a professionally designed £5000 design.

We will open up Shopify to the general public within the week.