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It also depends on what you are doing. If they are single-use, they can be made food-safe pretty easily, even with the nooks and crannies. With 3d printing, it can be pretty cheap to do single-use stuff. You can also electro-plate them with silver and have a pretty sanitary part.
> You can also electro-plate them You can electro-plate thermoplastic?
The GIF on the kickstarter is a nice TLDR: https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/043/049/335/c230c7314b0668e... Why doesn't it fold in the opposite direction, so that the fold faces out rather than in? Seems to me that orientation would be better for organization and finding what you're looking for at a glance in the closet. If the hook part could be rotated (as is in common design of other hangers), such orientation coul…
I'm having a hard time imagining this. How would you get it to lie flush against the wall?
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Project-Source-1-5-16-in-Flange-Set...
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Funnily you can see some coat hingers prototype at the end of the video :).
And while showing that, she says "I promise the next video won't take 3 months to make". 3 Years late: > I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger
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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.
Getting anything done with custom PCBs is the same sorta design, order, wait, assemble, test, repeat process. So while it may take 50~250 hours of work to make just the electrical portion of a DEF CON badge, that 50~250 hours may take place over 6 months.
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The margins are likely not that great. Small run hardware manufacturing is extremely expensive. It's not until you are doing volumes in the millions, the factory has invested in custom tooling, and you're buying material by the truckload straight from the manufacturer that prices really start to collapse. Right now she is probably getting the steel off the shelf, the plastic pieces from a small shop, the forming from…
Wooden hangers retail for around €1 here, and it's ~2.5x cheaper if you look at AliExpress. Note that both are retail, the wholesale prices are probably half of that. €19 for a hanger is ridiculously expensive, even if they're individually hand made. Granted it includes shipping, but even if shipping is 50% of the cost, it's still absurdly expensive. She mentions in the video that the plastic pieces are injection mou…
They also aren't paying western salaries for R&D.
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You cannot patent a foldable coat hanger. The only thing she could patent is the specific mechanism she used to enable folding, but I doubt the copycats would use exactly the same design.
Sure you can patent a folding coat hanger, in fact someone did recently in granted US patent US1139964B2 [0]. If you look at the claim, which defines the scope of the monopoly, you'll see it is very long. That is because folding coat hangers were already invented and reinvented many times over. Some example published applications would be US4997115A [1], US5632422A. I've not looked at the OP yet, but I'd be surprised…
I do not know how will she prevent people from copying it?
Amazon is terrible, if something works, many will copy it for half the price. And it's not fare.
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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 $10k plus ad spend i…
Making a product, certifying it and making sure it’s safe is also hard. But marketing is extremely important and it’s just a very different skill than tech. I make these epaper calendar displays. https://shop.invisible-computers.com I have invested thousands of hours into making them as good as possible. You couldn’t tell from my website :D I would probably profit much more if I just stopped improving them and focuse…
And lastly, did you know that you can contact your local IHK and they will report about you in their membership magazine? You probably already pay for the IHK and you probably already get their magazine. A calender seems like something that other CEOs would want to hear about, so this might actually be great content for their magazine. And just like you, every other company owner is also a mandatory IHK magazine subscriber ;)
This is a solved problem. Solved by making the hook rotatable so you can hang the clothes at an angle and thus save the same amount of room as with the discussed method, without all the downsides. I wonder if that inventor was also showered in cash and attention. I wonder if it also took them 3 years.
I think there is more to it and should not be dismissed out of hand. Upload a photo of this proposed system in action. Prove it doesn't look like a mess. See if the wastage at start and end of rack is problematic. Then upload a video of putting a random clothing item in and also removing one. There is a reason people don't do this, try it and see.
I just love the maker's mind. > I want something that does not exist, I will make it. Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there. 3d printers are 200$, 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…
If all you have is a hammer...
I have an opposing view. The current popularity of those particular crafting items has resulted in a plethora of crumbling and misshapen plastic widgets with barely-functional networking features that required limited creativity or novel ideas to create. This is to the detriment of the many other skills and crafts used to create physical objects.