While you guys are reinventing mattresses, can you do me a favor and invent the "square king" mattress that can be rotated and flipped in a bunch of different ways for even wear?
If you make it, I promise I'll buy one.
Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com
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#122While you guys are reinventing mattresses, can you do me a favor and invent the "square king" mattress that can be rotated and flipped in a bunch of different ways for even wear? If you make it, I promise I'll buy one.
I, too, will buy one of these. And three sets of sheets.
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#123>> Technical: We take a pragmatic approach with everything Genuinely curious why pragmatism didn't include a SAAS for the website (like Shopify) or the use of something like Wordpress with eCommerce plugin?
Well we started with a landing page with a simple form. We thought this would be even simpler than using a Shopify. Once we saw some traction I built the v1 shopping cart in about a day. One of the challenges we had was the software interfacing with our suppliers. We weren't sure if a 3rd party service would do that for us so we just built it quickly ourselves. Daehee and I are both developers.
Don't ever think you need to apologize for writing your own code.
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#124While you guys are reinventing mattresses, can you do me a favor and invent the "square king" mattress that can be rotated and flipped in a bunch of different ways for even wear? If you make it, I promise I'll buy one.
That's an awesome idea. It would make sense to test that market once we come out with our own bedframes. We'll discuss it with the team. Thank you!
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#125Deahee,
Congrats!
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#126While you guys are reinventing mattresses, can you do me a favor and invent the "square king" mattress that can be rotated and flipped in a bunch of different ways for even wear? If you make it, I promise I'll buy one.
I, too, will buy one of these. And three sets of sheets.
Seems like someone should try a Kickstarter for this to see if there's enough demand.
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#127Well... Tuft and Needle is rediculous name for a mattress company. But congrats to your success. Also, please switch up your renders for actual photos. The renders are quite obvious and feel deceptive.
> Tuft and Needle is rediculous name for a mattress company
I like it. It's classy, rustic, gives the impression of hand-made, and everybody likes seeing an ampersand in a nice typeface. Compare "Crate & Barrel".
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#128Love the website, good job!
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#129The title of this article sounded to me like one of those statistically generated ones that were on here a little while ago!
We did pass it around the team to make sure it sound right. That generator must be pretty good.
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#130Being someone that considers himself literate in the mattress industry, as my wife runs a humble mattress storage and distribution firm I totally agree that the prices I could see visiting on the US are way over the top. If I lived there, well, making/selling mattresses must be a profitable business from the retail pricing I could see. Mind you I was on Silicon Valley which I imagine must be very pricy. The website i…
There are some fair points here. The product is more of a futon than a true mattress. It would be interesting if they offered a higher end latex model.
What does that matter if it provides a great night's sleep?