<story><title>I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREokZa4dNU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amanzi</author><text>Looks so simple, but I guess that&amp;#x27;s a sign of good design. I was also surprised something like this didn&amp;#x27;t exist already.&lt;p&gt;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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>&amp;gt; Looks so simple, but I guess that&amp;#x27;s a sign of good design.&lt;p&gt;I find that this is tends to be the rule, not the exception and it&amp;#x27;s really reworked how I view things. I&amp;#x27;ve started to almost (more jokingly than seriously) believe that the less novel something appears the more it actually is. The real mark for a good work seems to be &amp;quot;wow, how did you spend so much time on that? It&amp;#x27;s so fucking obvious&amp;quot; combined with &amp;quot;why has no one else done this?&amp;quot; But it is also easy to post hoc attribute something to being &amp;quot;well that&amp;#x27;s just x and y, so not really novel.&amp;quot; But far too many things can be trivialized that way.&lt;p&gt;I wanted to say this because I think especially in engineering circles we have this wild novelty paradox. Where we can understand how our work, despite all outward appearances, is exceptionally nuanced and has minor details that are critical but when we judge others&amp;#x27; works we don&amp;#x27;t consider such details. I think this is because most details are baked in when you learn of the new thing. But we got a good litmus test: is anyone else making&amp;#x2F;producing&amp;#x2F;doing this &amp;quot;super simple blatantly obvious&amp;quot; thing. If no? It&amp;#x27;s probably deceptively complex. (It&amp;#x27;s also why you should laugh at anyone who starts a sentence with &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s so simple, you just...&amp;quot;)</text></comment>
<story><title>I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREokZa4dNU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amanzi</author><text>Looks so simple, but I guess that&amp;#x27;s a sign of good design. I was also surprised something like this didn&amp;#x27;t exist already.&lt;p&gt;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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImageXav</author><text>This is an extremely useful design. I never thought I&amp;#x27;d get excited about something like this but I recently moved to an old house with chimney flues running through every room, resulting in shallow alcoves that are of differing sizes.&lt;p&gt;A fitted wardrobe would be pricey (~$4000), barely fit depthwise and half of the space would just be covering the flue if we wanted it wall to wall.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I can just buy 3&amp;#x2F;4 of these for each wall and still come out ahead. The grooves in the rods are well thought out and mean that I can saw them to size myself, as can anyone.&lt;p&gt;The only drawback I can think of is having clothes up directly against a wall. This could obstruct airflow and be an incentive for mould to grow.&lt;p&gt;Might be time for my first ever pledge.</text></comment>