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[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

My instant pot is amazing. Everyone i know has one. How did they fail??

[-] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago

I have a theory that shitty products fundamentaly out-compete good products today because its way cheaper to market your product as good than to actually develop it well. I call it the craptocracy

[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

I want to see craptocracy trend so hard that it makes it into spellcheckers.

[-] tararity@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

When everyone already has one, no one needs to buy it anymore

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

The George Foreman machine is still my "peak design". And yet nobody owns one after everyone burned out on it from oversaturation.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

They still sell panini press grills. It's generally a bachelor pad thing though.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to create a business that bails out/buys excellent quality products and produces them in a small enough scale that only new owners will need.

Consider it an excellent achievement for a product to make it here. Only the best buy it for life products.

[-] Omodi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to destroy private equity.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

And the concept of infinite growth.

Financially, if your company is not expanding an increasing amount quarter on quarter on quarter, it's considered to be failing.

And yet, nothing can grow forever. At some point, all things must come to an end. It's an unrealistic pipe dream.

Say that the Instant Pot is so good that everyone has ten of them. Where would they grow from there?

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

FTFA:

A few years and one pandemic later, the company filed for bankruptcy on Monday,

It's also in a bunch of comments already

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