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55 points

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

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Because it is made redundant by literally everything else that is already in your kitchen. You can’t name one thing this appliance does that a pressure cooker, stove/oven and crock pot don’t already do.

It also doesn’t replace any of those other devices so unless you’re a college dorm resident it’s just another massive thing on your counter for basically no value or reason

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3 points

I’m glad you have all that in your kitchen.

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13 points

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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32 points

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

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

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41 points

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

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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.

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21 points

Someone needs to destroy private equity.

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8 points

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

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

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