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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]

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Post by chx »

beAbU wrote: post #136
Zanni wrote: post #63

I came across the Kickstarter [1] for this as a Facebook ad and passed over it for all the reasons folks are citing below. Folding hanger? What's the use case? But watching the video, she's really put a lot of thought into this. The system with the paired rod is pretty slick. I love the notches for keeping the hangers spaced. This solves a problem not everyone has (not me, for instance--I have full-size closets), but…

Worth noting this is Simone Giertz, she's a very popular maker on the internet, and her youtube channel has over 2M subscribers. A lot of her funding on KS is porbably based on that alone. It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time. Ultimately the volume taken up by the clothes is the same, you either have a shallow but wide closet, or deep but narrow. If you are not worrie…

> If you are not worried about the crease this might cause down the middle,

There is a claim this won't happen.

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by gibolt »

Reason077 wrote: post #80
amanzi wrote: post #16

Looks 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.

> ”it will almost certainly be cloned and sold en masse pretty quickly” Wouldn’t it be worth taking out a design patent on a product like this? It might not stop people making similar designs, but it would give you protection against outright clones.

I think you underestimate Aliexpress, Wish, Temu, ...

The sheer quantity of goods being shipped in, one-by-one on a daily basis make it impossible to block in any effective manner.

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by dale_glass »

beAbU wrote: post #136
Zanni wrote: post #63

I came across the Kickstarter [1] for this as a Facebook ad and passed over it for all the reasons folks are citing below. Folding hanger? What's the use case? But watching the video, she's really put a lot of thought into this. The system with the paired rod is pretty slick. I love the notches for keeping the hangers spaced. This solves a problem not everyone has (not me, for instance--I have full-size closets), but…

Worth noting this is Simone Giertz, she's a very popular maker on the internet, and her youtube channel has over 2M subscribers. A lot of her funding on KS is porbably based on that alone. It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time. Ultimately the volume taken up by the clothes is the same, you either have a shallow but wide closet, or deep but narrow. If you are not worrie…

> It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time.

She also had multiple treatments for brain cancer. Though I think that was before this project I imagine such a thing takes a considerable toll.

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by 6stringmerc »

I live in North Texas what the fuck is a coat hangar gonna do for me compared to the back of a chair for a couple months?

If you think I'm being crass, I got this perspective from here. A rural Chinese student went to the big City. One classmate gave a pitch about a startup for family name / style napkins to sell. He couldn't help himself but show how most of the people in the country used napkins.

He wiped his mouth on his sleeve and they were offended.

Congratulations on your accomplishment, and as a creative person who constantly feels the wrath of rejection due to people not seeing the inherent utility of music as a pathway to happiness...this will go on my wall next to the toilet that encourages kids to poop in it by talking to them.

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by irjustin »

pengaru wrote: post #90
irjustin wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

ehhhhhhh i'm not so sure about it.

I think the details matter. Curtain rods are typically 1-4" from the wall. This product looks like it works best Finding curtain rods that are that close is uncommon and limited in styles/options (I didn't see one on a quick amazon/aliexpress search). That's not to say you're wrong, but I don't think it's as simple as you believe it to be.

[0] https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/043/060/840/f8e1ace8b30ae8b...

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by phreeza »

My great-grandfather had a factory making light furniture and coat hangers, and had several patents for types of adjustable coat hangers. He was expropriated by the soviets after the second world war, in eastern Germany and fled to the west. It's fun to imagine an alternative universe where I am the heir of an adjustable coat hanger empire.

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by neontomo »

6stringmerc wrote: post #145

I live in North Texas what the fuck is a coat hangar gonna do for me compared to the back of a chair for a couple months? If you think I'm being crass, I got this perspective from here. A rural Chinese student went to the big City. One classmate gave a pitch about a startup for family name / style napkins to sell. He couldn't help himself but show how most of the people in the country used napkins. He wiped his mouth…

It sounds like you’re stringing a couple of anecdotes together to make a point that this is useless, which it isn’t. Lots of people live in tiny apartments, where sections of your house need to serve more than one purpose (kitchen inside a cupboard for example). If I was in this situation I would consider buying this product.

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by morsch »

Zanni wrote: post #63

I came across the Kickstarter [1] for this as a Facebook ad and passed over it for all the reasons folks are citing below. Folding hanger? What's the use case? But watching the video, she's really put a lot of thought into this. The system with the paired rod is pretty slick. I love the notches for keeping the hangers spaced. This solves a problem not everyone has (not me, for instance--I have full-size closets), but…

The notched rod looks neat, but isn't rifling through the clothes on the rack kind of an essential part of the experience? Can't do that with a notched rod.

First time I'm illustrating a comment with stock footage: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/studio-shot-of-hand...

Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

yunohn wrote: post #98
corethree wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>All of China/Asia/Africa are free manufacturing for the West… Not free. But extremely cheap. >Of course, the view that they don’t innovate and only knockoff the West is also hilariously false. Of course not. I never made this claim. But in China, the incentive to innovate is much lower due to lack of enforcement of intellectual property rights. So of course in terms of cost/benefit ratio every individual in China is…

> Of course not. I never made this claim. I’m aware you left yourself a bit of wriggle room versus the absolute claim. Doesn’t change how it sounds. > When China steals ideas You know how they say the execution matters, not just the idea? > and manufacturing from the US US companies bring the plan, but the Chinese factories have unparalleled skills in actually manufacturing the product into reality. Not sure how you…

>the Western lifestyle

Is that a placeholder for 'over consumption perpetuated through mass brain-washing (advertising)'? Or is there more to it?

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