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I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, how I just want a basic bitch electric car. No centre console, no futuristic screens, no sensors, no cameras. Give me a normal fucking car with dials, a speedo, some padles on the steering wheel to adjust power output to replace gears and no driver assist. Sell it to me for cheap and let me drive my car. That’s all I want.
The problem is that you think that would make the ‘just’ products cheaper. The reality is that the data and advertising subsidize the costs of the existing options and make them cheaper then what ‘just’ could sell for.
Id buy their stuff, some of it at least
Probably better than my idea of just starting to wash my clothes in a bucket
He’d get unalivened within a month.
It would be more feasible to de-fang modern appliances.
That’s a legit great idea. Create a new firmware for smart TVs too.
There might be some liability concerns if you run a open source firmware on your washing machine and it decides to never shut off the water inlet…
Yes, the new company would be providing a new warranty based on that. Same as usual.
The Sims did it first, except the brand was called “Justa”. Justa dishwasher. Justa fridge.
Ahead of their time.
He’ll be out of business in a years time!
Seriously a great idea though. I’d buy all their stuff.
If you want this today, SpeedQueen has decent models that last forever and are very simple.
The reason is that they will be so durable that you buy one and it’ll be an heirloom for multiple generations.
Since it would make small quantities (at least at the start) and with better materials, I bet it would be also more expensive so maybe it evens out.
I would also buy it, I’m tired of household items that randomly break and the manufacturer doesn’t care.
Like No Name does for groceries.
Does ordinary skincare count too?
Deshittification
That’s like Ali G saying he invented the PlayStation 2 because he thought about it when the playstation came out.
I was annoyed as a kid when I independently came up with the idea of a flying car then found out that the world beat me to it.
That happened to me a few years back, a friend just had his clutch fail in his car. I started thinking how to make a better way to transfer power from motor to wheels.
Turns out I just reinvented the fluid coupling used in automatic transmissions…needless to say my idea wasn’t that impressive after that.
Haha, you ran into the mechanically inclined adult version!
My million dollar idea is a teleporter.
You walk in and get teleported.
Gibe moneeis nao plz
My million dollar idea is an add-on for your device that kicks every billionaire on the planet in the nut sack every time someone teleports.
OKAY YOU HAB MANIES SO YOU GIBE IMMDITLEE
Find identical twins, dress em the same, have one walk into a cardboard box with “teleporter” written on it by a child, and have the other twin come out another similar cardboard box.
NO TALK YES MONEE GIBE NAO ME
I can teleport you some crypto quantumcoins?
YOU GOBE YOU GEEVING NAO
What you have made there, sir, is a horrific copy and kill device!
NO MOR TOK YOU GIBE MONIE NAO
Similar to my idea called to make a clothing brand called “brandless”
No logo, no graphics, no distinguished designs
Just plain basic clothes in basic colors, using fabrics that last.
No itchy washing label either. All product information in detail available on site. At most a product number printed or sown on the inside.
Muji does this. The name basically means no brand in Japanese. Check them out
There’s the unbrandedbrand.com that does this for denim.
There already was a company called Brandless that tried to do the same thing with basic groceries like ketchup and paper towels. Looks like they’re in the process of getting back to market, but seems like they had the same mindset.
Would be really nice to have something similar for clothes.
I mean Uniqlo is kinda like this. No brand (at least in most of their basic stuff, I‘m not counting their new shit), long lasting and not expensive
Their new shit isn’t long lasting either.
50/50 chance it sells at a premium compared to other models, making the entire idea useless
Source: Like every project that pretended to do this with their respective market
Why the hell is a light phone more expensive than a mid to high range model smartphone. I’d rather just buy that and swap the ROM if I want to remove google.
Economies of scale and not capturing data as part of your profit model
Yeah I know my sample size is pretty useless, but this was just a dumb excuse to complain about light phone because even SMB manufacturing cost wise, it should be almost comically cheap to produce.
There are lots of other hardware accessories in the same range that cost much less to buy as a consumer, that are produced by more expensive vendors.
Yeah but what is the volume they are selling and are they profiting from user data both of those things have a significant impact on price.
I’ve been pondering if one could make open source controllers to replace the “smarts” in these with something that actually just does the job, and even customizable. With different sensor addons/adapters for different makes and models.
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