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Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
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A good starting point would be our Nanny State's Australian Competition and Consumer Commission list of banned toys:
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#102Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#103Beautiful execution but I find the purpose misguided. I am a parent too so maybe that's a cultural difference (EU vs US?) but if my kid choked on a toy I would pay closer attention to toys going forward rather than look for toy vendors to do my parenting for me.
Part of the expense of products is to ensure a good, safe design. I could use common sense and research toxicity of materials, off-gasing, tensile strength, resistance to hot/cold/UV, shapes that are vulnerable to choking, strangulation, puncture wounds, etc. If every parent had to go through this for each purchase it would be a massive, unnecessary duplication of effort. This would take considerable time just for childrens toys, not to mention food, cars, and office buildings. I'm glad that cars have recalls driven by real engineers that drivers are proactively contacted about rather than relying on the average person's "common sense" about vehicle safety.
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#104Hey, DEV here just a quick question about stripe integration.
Your website is http, so does for instance supplying my credit card details over http not have some security risk?
edit: oh I just saw you have https. So why is this not enforced?
Re: Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this
#105Congrats on building this. One thing that struck me (and possibly others) as odd is this sentence: "Did you know that in 2013 alone one toy was recalled every three days?".
It doesn't seem to make sense, either you say "Did you know that in 2013 alone 121 toys were recalled?" or "Did you know that in 2013 one toy was recalled every three days?".
The world "alone" to me only makes sense when talking about totals, not avg. per day/month/etc.