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It was a bomb speaker: https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speaker-2bh15 https://hellottec.com/product/bomb-portable-bluetooth-speake...

• JLO64 5mo ago
  What kind of company doesn’t want to pay $5 per month for a paid workers plan for their website?
  • ValentineC 5mo ago
    A lot of non-software businesses probably outsource their websites to some bottom barrel consultant in LCOL countries. That, or they're such a small business that they never expected one of their random products to be HN hugged to death.
  • jlarocco 5mo ago
    It probably worked fine until today, and will be back to working fine in a few days.
  • cryptoegorophy 5mo ago
    Companies that focus on product and not “investor value” through nice looking working websites
  • dghlsakjg 5mo ago
    The kind of company that normally is well within the free tier for years until their product is unexpectedly part of a news cycle. In all likelihood the site being down right now is actually a PR win.
• raverbashing 5mo ago
  Website already HN'd into oblivion it seems
  • sikozu 5mo ago
    Reddit got there first.
    • xeonmc 5mo ago
      The two are indistinguishable for all intents and purposes.
      • fsckboy 5mo ago
        hn has much less traffic than reddit
  • cmurf 5mo ago
    I prefer the term "hugged to death" which I only ever have seen used on HN.
    • arnavpraneet 5mo ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
• firesteelrain 5mo ago
  Oh man, talk about unfortunate set of circumstances. It looks like a cartoon-like bomb too.
  • echoangle 5mo ago
    I'm assuming that's where the name comes from
    • firesteelrain 5mo ago
      Yep, I found the product listing via Google. It says Bomb
• opengrass 5mo ago
  https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/tesancdn/hellottec/2_BH_15_S_Bomb_Kilavuz_210425_CNVRT_e4892c5701.pdf https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/tesancdn/hellottec/2_BH_...
  • neilv 5mo ago
    https://web.archive.org/web/20260531033828/https://tesancdn.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/hellottec/2_BH_15_1_c0813d7c92.webp https://web.archive.org/web/20260531033828/https://tesancdn....
• deleted 5mo ago
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• dabinat 5mo ago
  Calling their speaker Bomb was asking for trouble and I’m surprised this hasn’t occurred before now. It reminds me of when RED released a camera called Weapon, and I heard of people putting tape over the name when going through the airport.
  • basilikum 5mo ago
    They did not calculate with the stupidity of some people. I don't blame them. There are just too many mind blowing ways of stupidity to be able to account for all of them. Also it's not their fault other people decide to ground a plane for no reason.