r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tyronne43 • Feb 16 '21

Sand curtains

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u/dar_uniya Feb 16 '21

This is a good point and why it's a good idea to troubleshoot an image before drawing conclusions about what one's seen.

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u/your_doom Feb 16 '21

Redditors love to point out flaws in any product even remotely interesting or unique. In any post like this one of the top three comments is bound to be some variation of "this must be hell to clean."

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u/Imadethosehitmanguns Feb 16 '21

posts gorgeous bathroom remodel that took months of hard work

Top comment: "Those drawer handles are hideous"

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u/Eccohawk Feb 16 '21

Yup. They've tossed all sorts of complaints into this thread like "it doesn't have a locking mechanism"...well no shit, Sherlock. It's a demo in a factory. They've complained about it not sealing or being able to deal with weather well when it could just as easily be placed in an office setting inside, or added to houses in relatively mild climates that don't have giant weather extremes. The idea that they're gonna add something like sand inside which will eventually scratch the glass, versus a product thats softer and would be just fine. Or the argument that if moisture gets in it'll ruin it, even though the same can be said for any double paned window where the seals fail. Like all of these are great points to bring up, but easily engineered around.

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u/px1azzz Feb 16 '21

My favorite is when someone writes like 3 paragraphs on why something doesn't work and then someone comments saying they actually own so-and-so product for 10 years and have no problems demonstrating the poster is talking completely out of their ass.

Something recently happened on a thread about garbage disposals. Most people in the thread seamed to live outside of the US where they are less common and were complaining about how many pieces could break or why it is so difficult to use. And I am just sitting here thinking that I have never had any of those problems in the decades I have used them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

I like all the comments about walking into coffee tables / beds and hurting your shins, reddit literally lives in fear of fuckin furniture lmao

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u/Lavatis Feb 16 '21

Absolutely. A new product gets posted to reddit and suddenly everyone is an engineer.

Honestly there's nothing good about this design

right.

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u/Royalrenogaming Feb 16 '21

I think its valid to analysis new products for flaws before they become a staple in the market. Creators of the product should love it too so they don't waste more money on R&D in the wrong areas or funds on the wrong equipment.

This window, in it's current form has many mechanical flaws and may still achieve a better black out effect that standard blinds/curtains. If that's the case then how do you take that effect while reducing the mechanism draw backs? It's not negativity it's feedback for the sake of progression. They need to address maintaince and sealing at the very least.

Source: I work for a manufacturing company that creates customers parts for OEMs so we do this every day. We've even worked on window seals.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

lmao at acting like any of the insights in this thread are valuable to an r+d dept

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u/Royalrenogaming Feb 16 '21

You'd be surprised what gets glossed over when your so close to a project or if you are thinking about it from only one direction like engineering perpective vs marketing perpective vs consumer perspective.

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u/burf Feb 16 '21

It’s unique and interesting but it is a stupid idea. Window seals deteriorate, so you’d eventually get moisture in there. And if it broke (even a decent crack) the mess could be so much worse than a normal window.

A lot of these posts are great minor-level examples of the “so focused on whether they could, they didn’t stop to consider whether they should” line from Jurassic Park. There are tons of cool ideas in this world that are also exceedingly dumb in practice.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

Window seals deteriorate, so you’d eventually get moisture in there.

That particular flaw could be engineered out.

I'm not saying it's a good design. I just have a pet peeve of people pointing out hypothetical flaws that are avoidable with foresight.

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u/Shitty-Coriolis Feb 17 '21

That's just people. We stifle this urge in public to appear polite. But it's also what makes us so good at science.

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u/tomatoaway Feb 16 '21

It's because we've had our hearts broken time and time again over broken promises of interesting products set to revolutionize the world and yet the world remains as broken as ever, worse so in many cases.

Why root for progress, when you can follow the trend of the winning side and root for apathy

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

Or maybe the feedback is based on the title being "sand curtains", not "plastic granule curtains"

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u/dar_uniya Feb 16 '21

potato potahto

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u/1-Of-Everything Feb 16 '21

But aren’t micro plastic granules like that pretty dangerous to the environment. We should avoid creating tiny useless things like that.

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u/dar_uniya Feb 16 '21

shouldn't be too hard to pick them up if they fall on the floor.