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Ask HN: Which Terrible Products/Services Have Succeeded?
As in, which poorly made, poorly thought out products or services have ended up becoming wildly successful because of either good marketing, brand recognition or simple ability to understand their target audience?
Any examples? Cause if we've discussed great products that failed and better ones that failed due to a lack of marketing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19625319), we may as well discuss the opposite too.
- howard941 8y agoThe Discovery Networks and ESPN. These are successful because they understand their target audience are a handful of cable companies and have managed to avoid the unbundling of their undesirable overpriced offerings from all but the literally means-tested "basic" cable packages.
- verdverm 8y agoAtlassian products ️
- highhedgehog 8y agoUh, why do you think they are horrible?
- return0 8y agolinkedin
- masonic 8y agoLunchables and other nonbiodegradable-packaging-heavy, minimal-content products.