Theres something so refreshing about these videos by makers (also adam savage, mark rober, lots of others) where they just emphasize how many failed attempts it takes before they end up with something "less terrible". Makes everyone seem so... human :)
I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
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Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#82Original submission title was "Why Simone Giertz spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", moderators changed it to "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", the title of the video is "Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger".
the very first sentence she says in her video is "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger". is there something about the title that bothers you? I get when someone complains that a title is misleading, but I don't understand the commentary when the meaning is basically the same and the person commenting didn't even seem to have watched the first 3 seconds of the video.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#83I could see this working really nicely for those clothes in the liminal space between clean and dirty that I inevitably toss on my chair right now.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#84I found https://www.kangaroohanger.com/ to be a more practical and viable "actually better" clothes hanger.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#85Love the iteration story, but like, what about pants? And thick winter coats? And stuff I don't want a weird potential fold line slightly to the left/right of centre? Her example rack only contains the clothes that would be perfect for this. My rack and hangers accommodate all my needs with one simple cheap design.
You can have more than one storage location for clothes; put items that wouldn’t fit on this rack in a closet.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#86Love the iteration story, but like, what about pants? And thick winter coats? And stuff I don't want a weird potential fold line slightly to the left/right of centre? Her example rack only contains the clothes that would be perfect for this. My rack and hangers accommodate all my needs with one simple cheap design.
I think pants would work, if you put them in legs first.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#87Original submission title was "Why Simone Giertz spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", moderators changed it to "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", the title of the video is "Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger".
the very first sentence she says in her video is "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger". is there something about the title that bothers you? I get when someone complains that a title is misleading, but I don't understand the commentary when the meaning is basically the same and the person commenting didn't even seem to have watched the first 3 seconds of the video.
I am not related to her in any way other than being her subscriber on YouTube, yet my nickname is attached to the HackerNews submission, and with current title I expect that somebody will eventually think that I am she, or that I pretend to be her.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#88I have more questions about the enormously high bed stand in the opening shot. It immediately makes tons of sense (so much otherwise wasted vertical space in a room), but I have never seen such a thing.
She has a video on that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#89I have more questions about the enormously high bed stand in the opening shot. It immediately makes tons of sense (so much otherwise wasted vertical space in a room), but I have never seen such a thing.
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Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#90Looks so simple, but I guess that's a sign of good design. I was also surprised something like this didn't exist already. But my first thought was that it will almost certainly be cloned and sold en masse pretty quickly, so I hope she gets enough revenue from it to pay for her time.
> But my first thought was that it will almost certainly be cloned and sold en masse pretty quickly, so I hope she gets enough revenue from it to pay for her time. The reason why this isn't a thing yet is a few reasons - from my humble perspective: First, it's actually a 2 part system. You need the coat hanger but you also need the coat rack, more specifically - the dowel, to be really close to the wall. So you would…
> You need the coat hanger but you also need the coat rack, more specifically - the dowel, to be really close to the wall.
Curtain rods are a solved problem with widespread availability across the quality spectrum, this is a total non-issue.