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FranLab is getting evicted
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: floobydust on May 31, 2023, 03:37:57 am ---If you offer merch, don't bungle it like Elliot over at Hackaday did. Tee shirts - he ran out of the popular sizes, then put only women's tees on sale etc. How hard is it to have a few tee shirts in stock? Too hard apparently and then he killed off the merch store entirely. Dave is the only person who has one of their t-shirts lol.
As a revenue model, now he pimps out maker's projects on hackaday.io and he's not making money off the projects that I can see. I'd say he's doing it wrong, I sorta dislike the site and can't see it being sustainable especially with Autodesk et. al meddling in there as well.
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Didn't Hackaday get sold to SupplyFrame?
floobydust:
I forgot about SupplyFrame and see he's still there as Editor in Chief, an author doing articles.
Can't see how the site makes money.
I mention it because there are some electronics sites that really seem to be on life support from the parent corp. AutoDesk included.
It seems to distort what constitutes a successful venture.
sokoloff:
--- Quote from: floobydust on May 31, 2023, 03:37:57 am ---If you offer merch, don't bungle it like Elliot over at Hackaday did. Tee shirts - he ran out of the popular sizes, then put only women's tees on sale etc. How hard is it to have a few tee shirts in stock? Too hard apparently and then he killed off the merch store entirely.
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Running out of popular sizes and putting the slower-running combinations on sale is 100% normal.
I work on the fulfillment software (manufacturing and logistics) side of a company that sells mass customized products, including apparel. The reason a lot of the T-shirt industry has gone to print-on-demand, direct-to-garment for merch sales is that it is hard to simultaneously not ever run out of some sizes of some designs and make merch profitable overall without tying up a huge amount of capital in slow-turning inventory.
You're going to sell a fair number of M and lot of L and XL unfitted ("mens") shirts in ash, dark blue, and black. If you sell those regularly, you'll get to know how to order them to keep them in stock. How many pink 4XLs are you going to sell a month? How many orange XSs? Even without going to odd colors, the combinatoric of size, color, design, fitted/unfitted gets to be pretty large. Eventually, when you discontinue the product or start winding it down to get warehouse shelf space back, you're going to run sales on the shirts you have to get rid of them.
There's a reason Amazon can offer such a huge selection of T-shirts and designs while rarely running out: https://www.asicentral.com/news/web-exclusive/september-2020/amazon-expands-print-on-demand-with-kornit-deal/ (Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Amazon's capability here [other than sometimes buying shirts from them]; I work for a competitor in this space, but it's easier to cite an Amazon-related press release.)
MK14:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 30, 2023, 11:28:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: MK14 on May 30, 2023, 10:41:31 pm ---She seems to be indicating, that this may end up slowly ending Youtubes hold, on videos, especially creators who are currently using Youtube as their outlet, except for the very rich channels, who get very large sponsorship money, so they can pay Youtube, to promote their videos.
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I have started a small scale test to find out:
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My worry, from the consumer (Youtube watcher), point of view. Is that when I search for relatively essential videos, for specific reasons.
These days, after watching the searched for video (which stands a too high probability of having significant paid for promotions within the video, anyway). Instead of seeing a pile of optional, scrollable thumbnail videos, very strongly related to the original searched item(s).
These is a huge selection of Youtube's special list of favoured/promoted what Youtube want to present to you videos.
I find that VERY annoying. Because I want to just concentrate on the very directly related subject area, because I'm doing stuff and need to know. E.g. What is the best/favourite/recommended PCB autorouter, in use today, and why. If you must use them, as many recommend against using them, especially for doing the complete design.
Instead it seems to shows video links for a pile of other stuff, which (at other times, I admit is stuff I would watch), but I specifically did the direct search, because I just want to know more about modern day PCB autorouters (hypothetically, not other/leisure stuff etc).
I do seem to have noticed that if you are using a relatively anonymous browser situation. E.g. A brand new fresh OS install. It does seem to give, considerably better, much more directly related results. But I shouldn't need to do that.
E.g. They should have a control at the top, that says something like 'Only show very closely related videos in this suggestion box column' or 'It's ok to show less well related videos' or 'show me anything that you think I may like'.
I suppose in summary. It (Youtube), is heading to be much more like TV channels, with their mass advertising, product placements in some programmes kind of thing.
Rather than a very useful, specific tool, for researching very specific information. Such as the best scope probes to buy, etc.
I.e. They are centring Youtube around their own desires to make as much money as possible, and don't really care about the consumers at all.
In my case, I try and concentrate on finding the Youtube video links myself, e.g. via google or Youtube websites, search features and/or keep a list of liked channels as bookmarks, which I periodically trawl through, rather than relying on Youtubes own methods, which seem to be extremely biased, because of 'the Youtubes Algorithm' reasons, which Fran seems to rather often, talk about.
.RC.:
--- Quote from: MK14 on May 31, 2023, 11:55:12 am ---
My worry, from the consumer (Youtube watcher), point of view. Is that when I search for relatively essential videos, for specific reasons.
These days, after watching the searched for video (which stands a too high probability of having significant paid for promotions within the video, anyway). Instead of seeing a pile of optional, scrollable thumbnail videos, very strongly related to the original searched item(s).
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While I do not see youtube ads on my PC, on the tablet I actually get to see youtube showing you an ad every 30 seconds. Before the video, during and after it is all watch such and such a movie, buy such and such at JBHifi, vote yes for the voice, and all this shit like that I have no interest in.
So now youtube not only bore their watchers with annoying useless ads about something you are not interested in, they are going to take money from the creators so the watchers get an even less usable experience as they get blasted in the face with all these useless search results based on who pays the most to youtube.
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