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I wonder why a startup doesn't popup to eat the lunch of all these shitty products.
by devoply 8y ago
I wonder why a startup doesn't popup to eat the lunch of all these shitty products.
- function_seven 8y agoWater saving stuff has gotten better and better, but there's only so much you can do with less water. I don't know that a startup would be able to find efficiencies that haven't already been wrung out by established players. And they can't just produce toilets/showerheads/etc. that just use more water. Regulations won't allow it.
- Scoundreller 8y agoNothing a drill bit and some patience can't fix for the showerheads, or just remove any flow restrictors. The toilets can be adjusted, but the new tech works pretty well.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI used to work in a place where the toilet-flush levers went two ways: down gets you a low-water flush for #1, up gets you a high-power one for #2. I thought that was interesting. Dunno the regulatory situation around it, though.
- bradknowles 8y agoDual-flush toilets have been used in Europe for many years. When we moved there in 1998, we had an apartment that was kitted out with one that looked to be more than a decade old at the time, and it worked fine. I can confirm that modern Toto toilets are also a wonder of engineering. My wife and I are planning on replacing all the old toilets in the house, now that we have a Toto downstairs. Not only does it use much less water, it can also handle way more ... material ... than anything else I have ever seen. Worth the money at ten times the price. And yes, you can get Toto toilets that also do the dual-flush.
- Aloha 8y agoBecause building a physical object is several orders of magnitude than building an app, with a much lower rate of return.