At exactly 8am yesterday (Thursday) the nicegear web store reached quite a neat milestone, order #10000 was placed. Matt from Christchurch ordered a Raspberry Pi. Like most orders this was shipped out the same day, unlike most orders and because it was such a special number we gave it away for free.

I was contemplating how fast we've progressed to that number and what the interval timing of it was so I jumped into the database to have a look with this command;

SELECT id, created FROM orders WHERE id % 1000 = 0 ORDER BY id;

After pasting the results into LibreOffice Calc (a spreadsheet app) I was given the following graph;

I'm really stoked with the performance of our little operation run out of good old Timaru, New Zealand.

Needless to say I'm quite proud of what we've achieved over the years (which seem to have just flown past!) but I mostly wanted to put this in writing to say a huge thanks to all of you, our customers. We don't advertise, pretty much the only way we get the amount of business we do is through fantastic folks such as yourselves who tell a friend or family member about us.

Thank you all very much.

- Hadley Rich