#843 - Chemical Engineer Zips Up Solution for Baggy Shirts
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When an engineer receives a ridiculously baggy work shirt, he grabs it by the collar and designs a DIY tailoring device. Four years later, he’s sold $150,000 of them.
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| 0:29.8 | Have you ever had a shirt or a jacket or dress or other clothing item that you really liked |
| 0:44.7 | except for one small detail? |
| 0:47.1 | It doesn't fit or at least it doesn't fit in one particular area. |
| 0:50.8 | It looks great, otherwise it feels great, otherwise, but at least in that one significant |
| 0:55.0 | area it's too baggy. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, if so, you're not the only one. |
| 0:58.6 | In today's story, an engineer receives a ridiculously baggy work shirt. |
| 1:02.2 | And he likes this shirt, but he's got that problem, it's too baggy. |
| 1:05.6 | So he grabs it by the collar and designs a zippy DIY tailoring device. |
| 1:10.4 | Four years later, he sold $150,000 of them. |
| 1:13.9 | Yet he also makes a major mistake in failing to consider the kickstarter effect, where he |
| 1:18.0 | goes from receiving lots of attention, getting lots of backers, having lots of sales, to |
| 1:22.1 | a substantial drop-off in Allmetrics, act the campaign, and it. |
| 1:26.2 | Welcome to Side Hustle School. |
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