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I want a tour of your dorms and factories. Can you post pics of a bunch of the buffet meals, please?

bobjordan 11y ago
Welcome to check up for a blog post in coming weeks at blog.asianops.com. We're also redoing the websites listed in my bio that will have tons more pics (live 4-6 weeks from now).
maneesh 11y ago
Here's a tour of a few factories in Shenzhen that I made when I began doing my factory search for my company, http://pavlok.com http://pavlok.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_blmix2IU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_blmix2IU
- hifromsz 11y ago
  Note that these are fairly high end (large, equipment heavy) factories and not necessarily representative of the many smaller factories in the area. Edit: Guess I got banned, stay ignorant HN.
- markbao 11y ago
  That was really cool, thanks for sharing that (also the music was awesome). Crazy how much custom machinery is there, like the circular railing for the Lego-like arms.
- marincounty 11y ago
  Really impressed with that factory! I am a part-time Horologist, and the gears in a mechanical watch always amazed me. I wondered how they were made in large quantities. I now know. For years, I wanted to do business(small quantities at first) in China, but always chicken out when I start to think about the risk of fraud. Do you know of any service that vets these factories, and is not subject to payoffs? I guess you need to travel there if a big order is on the table.
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    An important anti-fraud measure is escrow, another is QA on the sending site before your stuff goes into the container.
- tarr11 11y ago
  I'm really curious how you do qa on an electric shock device? Do you have extra standards for medical devices that you have to meet for this product?
  - maneesh 11y ago
    We use the jolt on ourselves, we test with a voltimeter, etc. No, we meet low voltage standards and need no certification.
- tempodox 11y ago
  That site (pavlok) asks for my email and doesn't even say what the price of the product is supposed to be, nor any other details. They really expect people to donate their email address to don't-know-who for don't-know-what? I wonder how well that works.
  - maneesh 11y ago
    We have a 23% conversion rate on that email form. That said, we are currently A/B testing the buy button on the front page, so 50% of people see the buy button right now. Also, you can see the full shopping cart page at http://buy.pavlok.com http://buy.pavlok.com
- hnhamdani 11y ago
  your product reminds me of Quitter's Inc story by Stephen King. Don't know if that is a merely coincidence or you actually inspired by it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc.
  - maneesh 11y ago
    I read that story afterwards! Very interesting.

Welcome to check up for a blog post in coming weeks at blog.asianops.com. We're also redoing the websites listed in my bio that will have tons more pics (live 4-6 weeks from now).

maneesh 11y ago

Here's a tour of a few factories in Shenzhen that I made when I began doing my factory search for my company, http://pavlok.com http://pavlok.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_blmix2IU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_blmix2IU

hifromsz 11y ago
Note that these are fairly high end (large, equipment heavy) factories and not necessarily representative of the many smaller factories in the area. Edit: Guess I got banned, stay ignorant HN.
markbao 11y ago
That was really cool, thanks for sharing that (also the music was awesome). Crazy how much custom machinery is there, like the circular railing for the Lego-like arms.
marincounty 11y ago
Really impressed with that factory! I am a part-time Horologist, and the gears in a mechanical watch always amazed me. I wondered how they were made in large quantities. I now know. For years, I wanted to do business(small quantities at first) in China, but always chicken out when I start to think about the risk of fraud. Do you know of any service that vets these factories, and is not subject to payoffs? I guess you need to travel there if a big order is on the table.
- jacquesm 11y ago
  An important anti-fraud measure is escrow, another is QA on the sending site before your stuff goes into the container.
tarr11 11y ago
I'm really curious how you do qa on an electric shock device? Do you have extra standards for medical devices that you have to meet for this product?
- maneesh 11y ago
  We use the jolt on ourselves, we test with a voltimeter, etc. No, we meet low voltage standards and need no certification.
tempodox 11y ago
That site (pavlok) asks for my email and doesn't even say what the price of the product is supposed to be, nor any other details. They really expect people to donate their email address to don't-know-who for don't-know-what? I wonder how well that works.
- maneesh 11y ago
  We have a 23% conversion rate on that email form. That said, we are currently A/B testing the buy button on the front page, so 50% of people see the buy button right now. Also, you can see the full shopping cart page at http://buy.pavlok.com http://buy.pavlok.com
hnhamdani 11y ago
your product reminds me of Quitter's Inc story by Stephen King. Don't know if that is a merely coincidence or you actually inspired by it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitters,_Inc.
- maneesh 11y ago
  I read that story afterwards! Very interesting.