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This is three.js running on the Exosphere. 🤯
Rendering in realtime from a browser at 8K / 60fps.
Here’s how Shopify just pulled it off 👇
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Daniel Beauchamp
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Daniel Beauchamp
@pushmatrix
Distinguished Engineer @ Shopify. Building random experiments in my spare time.
Ottawa, Ontario Katılım Kasım 2009
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@seekingprotein Quick was built and is maintained by two people! @xaptronic and myself.
And the maintenance now is very part time. Thing runs smooth due to so few moving parts
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@pushmatrix super cool! How many people built this / work on it full time?
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Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML.
But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc?
We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work.
We call it Quick 👇🧵
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No special thanks to meeeeee and @xaptronic for building the OG version? 😛
Jk. This is so cool. Love to see it
We had cloudrun at first but switched to vm. Became way more stable, especially with websocket connections.
We provide git based deploys, but also sometimes you just want to put something up right away without going through all the git hoops.
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Saw this Wednesday and immediately knew we needed our own. So we built it: an internal Quick for everyone at @Courtyard_io to ship and share sites just as fast - but git-backed, behind SSO, in our own style. Live 24 hours later, built with @cognition's @DevinAI.
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Since Quick launched in July 2025, we’ve collectively built more than 50,000 sites. Over 50% of employees have at least one Quick site. When you remove the barriers to build & share, it’s incredible what happens. More examples of how we’re using Quick : shopify.engineering/quick
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@jacobmparis At $20/mth per seat x 7000+ employees, I’ll take my $200 VM any day
Anyway, I’m not throwing shade at Vercel. Love you guys and your platform.
Quick is simple yet powerful, has 0 setup, and works great for us.
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@pushmatrix it's basically free
Fluid Compute reuses existing machines and densely packs all active CPU into idle slots before spinning up new ones
end users only pay for active cpu milliseconds which matches our underlying costs pretty well
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watch me create and deploy an internal app in 2 mins
- All deployments are guarded by SSO automatically
- I don't have to care about my DB, v0 handles it for me
but if I DID care I could match our prod stack exactly
we don't need a different tech stack for "internal"
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@jacobmparis Not quite The true beauty of Quick is in its constraints. People don’t have the choice to install a custom backend, or pick a database, or do any other setup. It’s the ultimate convention over configuration, and it’s really freeing.
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@QChuret @ChatGPTapp There is none. All quick sites open to everyone internally. There’s not even the concept of a site owner. Anyone can overwrite anything. And it works perfectly
Permissions are a rats nest of complexity.
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@pushmatrix That is so awesome ! A bit like Sites of @ChatGPTapp but internal.
I love the idea too of the "Quick" API, built-in connectors to your internal tools - but how does it handle RBAC ? It's fully intregrated into your Google Sign-in / groups ?
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@topmass Neat! Comparing the costs is not quite accurate. The $200/mth is running this on a single VM for a company over 7k+ people with tens of thousands of requests per minute.
You could run quick locally for a small team for almost nothing in comparison
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@pushmatrix I built this fully into a cli called "OpenQuick" it only requires a free cloudflare account and every quick page runs on a single durable object - if assets are above 25mb it creates a folder for the assets in an R2 bucket, super configurable CLI too :) github.com/topmass/openqu…
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@austinhutchison Great question!
There’s a “quick serve” command that runs your site off localhost for testing, and provides shims for all the APIs
Ex: the database and file uploads just saves to local storage, websockets use broadcast channel API, etc…
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@pushmatrix really interested in doing this internally as well - how do you use the apis while prototyping before "deploying" to Quick? my static html doesn't have IAP
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@itsTimYim @jacobmparis Ding ding. You are correct. The web used to be simpler. Somewhere between then and now things got overrun by frameworks, endless config files, build pipelines etc…
This is a return to the basics. FTP like deploys
But it’s pairing that with a built in api that is the big unlock
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@pushmatrix @jacobmparis mod_rewrite and wildcard DNS
This was standard in 2005 so I’m struggling to see the epic innovation that is being claimed here????
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We have this at Vercel, it’s called Vercel
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Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML. But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc? We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work. We call it Quick 👇🧵
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@notjazii Ask it to recalculate normals per frame and use it for shading the geo. Otherwise it looks too flat
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you can tear it here: jazii.dev
inspired by @pushmatrix, he really cooked with his tearable site
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I asked Claude Fable 5 to make me something cool
so it made this in just a few minutes
it’s for my personal site, which i’m working on right now
guess how many tokens it used?
J A Z I I@notjazii
Pov: me and claude fable 30 mins before hitting the 100% limit
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@lionelrudaz More info on the “why” here shopify.engineering/quick
It’s demos over memos. People now share prototypes and demos of their ideas vs just writing about them in docs
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@pushmatrix Fantastic work 🤩
Can you elaborate on the pain point it’s solving? What’s the goal for Shopify to create 50k websites internally? How do you reference them?
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@pushmatrix Pretty cool - and amazingly close to what I've been building recently for our own purposes. Single binary. jot.skorfmann.com/jot/
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@sharbeltabet Well that’s one half of it. Nginx serving static sites stored on a gcs bucket
The other half is a small node server providing a lightweight api
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@pushmatrix Isn’t this a static assets server?
Couldn’t it be a wrapper around s3? Maybe I am missing something.
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@JoshDance Reduce as much friction as possible to building. With online services people need accounts, there’s permissions, configuration, setup, etc etc
This setup is custom to us and it’s as simple as possible, and boy is it liberating
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@pushmatrix Seems really cool! Why build your own instead of using something like Replit or other vibe coding tools? Customization?
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@mib0x You might get a kick out of this shopify.com/news/unserious…
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Really good job here honestly.
Still shocked at having an internal jam making video games haha
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Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML. But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc? We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work. We call it Quick 👇🧵
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@royalicing That’s the benefit about it being internal only. People are using this at work and it’s not anonymous like the public web.
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@pushmatrix How do you handle moderation of illegal or disturbing content?
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@1_missthesun This post barely scratches the surface of what we’re doing with Quick. But I can’t spoil all the secrets 😉
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@yakkomajuri No sql, firebase style. Treat it like a big persisted json store namespace per site
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@pushmatrix what's the data saving setup? no-sql? else how are you handling migrations etc
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