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A model S based Yute would sell like hotcakes in Australia :D
Ute, short for utility vehicle: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ute
Ah, the Australian pronunciation is throwing me off, TIL :)
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]
#282I had a good friend who studied industrial design, and they told me that these kind of improvements are the most impressive. Fixing things we all use and didn’t realize needed fixing.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#283If the author of the video wanted to solve just her particular case, she would make a diagonal cutouts on her dresser beam and hang the clothes at an angle using standard hangers. She has enough room for that, plus it would look stylish. Over time I came to appreciate solutions like that, you don't want to always solve a general problem.
oh my god you solved the problem, quick make a yt and kickstarter
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#284I just love the maker's mind. > I want something that does not exist, I will make it. Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there. 3d printers are 200$, esp32 is the same cost as arduino nano. Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it. I…
To me, this really shows that marketing is now the most crucial skill. It has become easy and affordable to design products, the process is now almost fully commodified with all those OEM and production services. The only thing that now stands between your idea and financial success is your ability to reach the target market, i.e. marketing. Also, such a slick KickStarter campaign typically costs $10k plus ad spend i…
> To me, this really shows that marketing is now the most crucial skill. It has become easy and affordable to design products,
Um, did you see how many prototypes she went through? And also, 3 years - it's in the title.
Designing products that kinda-sorta work might be easy and affordable.
Designing products that work well and don't have annoying edge cases is still hard.
Unless you think that Simone Giertz is unusually bad at this sort of thing?
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
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ehhhhhhh i'm not so sure about it. I think the details matter. Curtain rods are typically 1-4" from the wall. This product looks like it works best Finding curtain rods that are that close is uncommon and limited in styles/options (I didn't see one on a quick amazon/aliexpress search). That's not to say you're wrong, but I don't think it's as simple as you believe it to be. [0] https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/043/06…
Are you misunderstanding something? Clothes Railings are "normally" fixed on the ends (to the wall of the cupboard) or from above and can thus, be positioned any distance from the rear wall. Do an Image Search for "Clothes Railing U Bracket" for example.
Having two sidewalls available such that u brackets work is probably not a good use case for this hanger. Usually it means you're inside a closet?
But I agree you could build/attach small sidewalls or simply blocks and use this u bracket. But we've entered DIY space since it's not a common package and "readily available" as a solved problem.
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#286I just love the maker's mind. > I want something that does not exist, I will make it. Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there. 3d printers are 200$, esp32 is the same cost as arduino nano. Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it. I…
I think the best ideas come when you make something that you really want for yourself. In 2020, I really wanted an eink calendar to hang on my wall. Still, many people built one for themselves and never turned it into a commercial product. It’s a lot of work and some of it is boring. And you have to pay for certification and worry about all that paperwork that comes with a business. It took me 3 years: https://shop.i…
That's a pretty great price for an eink based display. Only setup thru iPhone atm? When is Android coming? Is there a webui for setup as an alternative?
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I think the best ideas come when you make something that you really want for yourself. In 2020, I really wanted an eink calendar to hang on my wall. Still, many people built one for themselves and never turned it into a commercial product. It’s a lot of work and some of it is boring. And you have to pay for certification and worry about all that paperwork that comes with a business. It took me 3 years: https://shop.i…
That's a pretty great price for an eink based display. Only setup thru iPhone atm? When is Android coming? Is there a webui for setup as an alternative?
> iCalendar setup is only possibly through the iPhone app at the moment.
From what I gather, only iCalendar can be setup just through iPhone.
> It can display calendars from Google Calendar and any iCalendar link* (ical, ics, ...).
> You need your phone (iOS or Android) only for the initial configuration.
You can setup Google Calendar through Android
Re: I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
#288Why is this not a thing?
Clothes hangers are designed to keep the structure of the clothing, if this design is used you might as well fold your shirts and use less storage space.
Seems obvious if you’ve had to wear a perfect military uniform you pressed.
Three years and no one mentioned this, is this real content or is this fake TV?
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#289This is a solved problem. Solved by making the hook rotatable so you can hang the clothes at an angle and thus save the same amount of room as with the discussed method, without all the downsides. I wonder if that inventor was also showered in cash and attention. I wonder if it also took them 3 years.
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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.
She did not have brain cancer. She had a benign tumor that was surgically removed.