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If you want to save space why hang your clothes? Stacking them is easy and does not require another object to be used.
In stacking case, it is "expensive" to Read, I mean choose and pick and put the stack back so it aligns nicely.
Plus folding the shirt in the first place takes more effort.
Pull out retractable closet rod. https://www.amazon.ca/Retractable-Adjustable-Wardrobe-Clothi... Mount under shelf. Use high quality hanger that doesn't damage or crease. No extra folding action. Put nice article of clothing in front and looks very nice. Turning storage 90 degrees for shallow storage solves more problems than folding clothes in half. Having seen tons of these in show rooms, I dare say it's a long sol…
Or also just coat hangers that have a rotating top (most with a wooden body and a metal top have that). There were also some really viable solutions displayed on the Google image search that were just glossed over. The way it's presented in the video it does look really nice, but having to pair it with one of their rods is kind of limiting.
If she's going ditch purity of wood or steel wire, with bits of plastic, go all the way and have nice little molded end for shoulders. Or coat the wire in velvet which is life changing upgrade in terms of anti slip (she has muh silicon stoppers). Also would be nice if she extended horizontal neck of hanger out with a stop to keep fabric away from the back/wall so the crease is not rubbing against a surface. Just little ideas which I feel like she must have considered with 100+ iterations and the result is functionally subpar. Granted aestehtically simply and pleasing to some.
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the very first sentence she says in her video is "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger". is there something about the title that bothers you? I get when someone complains that a title is misleading, but I don't understand the commentary when the meaning is basically the same and the person commenting didn't even seem to have watched the first 3 seconds of the video.
I am not related to her in any way other than being her subscriber on YouTube, yet my nickname is attached to the HackerNews submission, and with current title I expect that somebody will eventually think that I am she, or that I pretend to be her.
For example, I think I need to go lie down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38288130 was on the front page for 20 hours yesterday, but it wasn't the submitter who thought they needed to go lie down.
In terms of taking out the person's name, we do that a lot in titles—especially when it wasn't that way in the original—because HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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> 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.
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…
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 worried about the crease this might cause down the middle, then you might as well fold the garment and put it on a shelf?
Also, where are trousers supposed to go now?
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the very first sentence she says in her video is "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger". is there something about the title that bothers you? I get when someone complains that a title is misleading, but I don't understand the commentary when the meaning is basically the same and the person commenting didn't even seem to have watched the first 3 seconds of the video.
I am not related to her in any way other than being her subscriber on YouTube, yet my nickname is attached to the HackerNews submission, and with current title I expect that somebody will eventually think that I am she, or that I pretend to be her.
HN has a thing against questions in titles because a lot of them are clickbait. I don't care about this rule but that's why it was changed.
Original submission title was "Why Simone Giertz spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", moderators changed it to "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", the title of the video is "Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger".
I have more questions about the enormously high bed stand in the opening shot. It immediately makes tons of sense (so much otherwise wasted vertical space in a room), but I have never seen such a thing.
She has a video on that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c
If you want to save space why hang your clothes? Stacking them is easy and does not require another object to be used.
Read vs Write optimization. In stacking case, it is "expensive" to Read, I mean choose and pick and put the stack back so it aligns nicely. Plus folding the shirt in the first place takes more effort.
It's not a stack data structure. You can pull out items from the middle of a stack.
>Plus folding the shirt in the first place takes more effort.
This is a skill which can be optimized to be very quick to do.