I have the MZOO sleep mask as well and it’s the best I’ve found after trying a bunch of different brands. I bought a second as a backup and would rebuy in the future if needed.
This thread of comments seems like very nice example of "The exception that proves the rule".
Both are satisfied to have found good products, and somewhat surprised, at least tacitly acknowledging by even finding it worth commenting, that the productscape overall is basically a sea of lemons.
Yeah that is nice, but ironically we can only have this discussion because Hacker News itself is not full of lemons
I can click on the profiles, and see "created 2009 or 2014", and think "OK this is probably a real person"
Whereas if this were Reddit or Instagram, and the account was created recently, I might think "that's AI spam".
So yeah someone has to do real work to create spaces that are not lemon markets. I guess people who have experienced that have coined "Dead Internet Theory"
(Although ironically, I would trust HN more on non-tech stuff like sleep masks, than I do on tech stuff. The tech stuff does have a bias towards what CEOs/investors think, although plenty of opposing opinions get voiced as well)
When I research Reddit recommendations I always click into people's accounts to see old posts. If they have non brand safe posts (nswf, politics, profanity), I view them as more likely to be real.
Unless things have changed, if you don't go to a top school, you'll see lots of CS majors who can't really code, struggle through projects, and get degrees.
This is a really good analogy (gas station customers) that I haven’t heard before. I’ve often tried to describe this ‘low intent’ group but never had a good way to make it relatable.
it gets the point across, but it raises other interesting questions.
sure, most customers at an interstate gas station will only visit once or twice, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are less important to the business than the truck drivers that fill up every day. maybe the bulk of revenue actually comes from one-time customers. this could be a case where attracting new customers is more important than retaining the current ones.
The linked article only looks at the time period of the last 50 years. If you believe in big cycles (like covered in Ray Dalio’s “The Changing World Order”), expand that perspective to several hundred years and market returns don’t look quite as guaranteed over a given 20 year period. I’m still formulating my own thesis but it’s a good read if you are into such things.
I forward emails for custom domains from my registrars (Namecheap and GoDaddy) to Gmail. Then you can use a free Zoho account that lets you send email from your custom domain from within you Gmail account (sent via Zoho's email servers). It's a bit of work to set up but then you can do everything from within Gmail seamlessly.
Yes, agreed. Evernote's strength seems to be its crystal-clear cohesion and focus on helping people remember things, but then it sells things like socks and wallets. I don't quite get it.
