#knitting

bemusedlybespectacled:

themushroomtree:

amaltheametalweld:

once-a-polecat:

swords-n-spindles:

thedoctorknits:

once-a-polecat:

So, what’s new in the knitting community today Polecat? Well, I’m glad you asked because it’s these guys.

The fuck? You ask. Those sound like a couple of hustle culture, low level tech bros. Yes, yes they are. And they spent $80,000 on a knitting domain name thinking that they’re going to make millions.

Yes.

Really.

Do they knit? No.

Are they aware of Ravelry (the leading social media & marketplace site for knitters & crocheters)? Also, no.

Have they reached out to notable knitting pattern designers? Also, no.

Are they familiar with the culture of Local Yarn Stores? Also, no.

Does one of them at least have a 6 year old who learned to use a knitting loom? Yes!

Did they make a terrible podcast that insulted and talked down to their future clientele? You betcha.

Needless to say, Reddit&Twitter ripped them a new one. It has been very amusing.

………….

It’s two days later and I can find ZERO information on their blog about this project, except for the “knitting community response” post. I can, however, reconstruct from reddit and twitter how utterly and thoroughly they got eviscerated by the knitting community, and it’s a delight to watch.

I got you friend….

Courtesy of the Wayback Machine

(The podcast seems genuinely missing however.)

I listened to bits of the podcast bc I honestly just kept waiting for them to say something meaningful instead of throwing out buzzwords like that replaced having an actual plan…and let me tell you the techbros have no plan and even less respect.

They consider their only real competition to be box stores, China, and grannies who have run a blog for 20 years.

And the Chinese are apparently disadvantaged because they don’t list things properly, they don’t knit, and they can’t do videos because no one wants to see Asians in videos. Customers only want to see “western people” in their opinion.

It’s implied the old ladies are in the same category as small businesses?

So there’s all this good in-between market space that they can take advantage of to do… well they’re gonna sell stuff apparently using Amazon. They clearly don’t know what yet, but they’re gonna have innovative stuff. At least a dozen products maybe more!

Their business model:

Also they didn’t want to go with fishing as their new business because it’s so simple with its lures and poles. No room for innovation there.

Would you be surprised they mentioned coming up with their ideas over drinks multiple times? Also they talked about it while on a road trip? They looked up the metrics on the word knitting and thought the market was reasonably in the 41k range. You know not too saturated or something?

Basically they’re setting this up as a demonstration of look how I made my money and if you follow my capitalist recipe for just fucking around and hoping other people are stupid enough to click links on google, you too can make boatloads of money! type thing. So they didn’t really think the knitters would find out about it this soon and dogpile on them for their bs, because if you listen to them they don’t care about knitting. Their podcast wasn’t for knitters. It was for other folk interested in get rich quick stuff. I think one of them said something like website names were the first NFTs as if that was a good thing.

They basically deserve every incensed remark at their little venture.

Techbros and their bullshit are a pox on society.

They picked literally the worst fucking community to try to infiltrate and it’s FUNNY AS SHIT. Like, what other hobbies have people FAKE THEIR OWN DEATHS?

mikkeneko:

amaltheametalweld:

once-a-polecat:

swords-n-spindles:

thedoctorknits:

once-a-polecat:

So, what’s new in the knitting community today Polecat? Well, I’m glad you asked because it’s these guys.

The fuck? You ask. Those sound like a couple of hustle culture, low level tech bros. Yes, yes they are. And they spent $80,000 on a knitting domain name thinking that they’re going to make millions.

Yes.

Really.

Do they knit? No.

Are they aware of Ravelry (the leading social media & marketplace site for knitters & crocheters)? Also, no.

Have they reached out to notable knitting pattern designers? Also, no.

Are they familiar with the culture of Local Yarn Stores? Also, no.

Does one of them at least have a 6 year old who learned to use a knitting loom? Yes!

Did they make a terrible podcast that insulted and talked down to their future clientele? You betcha.

Needless to say, Reddit&Twitter ripped them a new one. It has been very amusing.

………….

It’s two days later and I can find ZERO information on their blog about this project, except for the “knitting community response” post. I can, however, reconstruct from reddit and twitter how utterly and thoroughly they got eviscerated by the knitting community, and it’s a delight to watch.

I got you friend….

Courtesy of the Wayback Machine

(The podcast seems genuinely missing however.)

I listened to bits of the podcast bc I honestly just kept waiting for them to say something meaningful instead of throwing out buzzwords like that replaced having an actual plan…and let me tell you the techbros have no plan and even less respect.

They consider their only real competition to be box stores, China, and grannies who have run a blog for 20 years.

And the Chinese are apparently disadvantaged because they don’t list things properly, they don’t knit, and they can’t do videos because no one wants to see Asians in videos. Customers only want to see “western people” in their opinion.

It’s implied the old ladies are in the same category as small businesses?

So there’s all this good in-between market space that they can take advantage of to do… well they’re gonna sell stuff apparently using Amazon. They clearly don’t know what yet, but they’re gonna have innovative stuff. At least a dozen products maybe more!

Their business model:

Also they didn’t want to go with fishing as their new business because it’s so simple with its lures and poles. No room for innovation there.

Would you be surprised they mentioned coming up with their ideas over drinks multiple times? Also they talked about it while on a road trip? They looked up the metrics on the word knitting and thought the market was reasonably in the 41k range. You know not too saturated or something?

Basically they’re setting this up as a demonstration of look how I made my money and if you follow my capitalist recipe for just fucking around and hoping other people are stupid enough to click links on google, you too can make boatloads of money! type thing. So they didn’t really think the knitters would find out about it this soon and dogpile on them for their bs, because if you listen to them they don’t care about knitting. Their podcast wasn’t for knitters. It was for other folk interested in get rich quick stuff. I think one of them said something like website names were the first NFTs as if that was a good thing.

They basically deserve every incensed remark at their little venture.

I did a little poking around on the subreddit about these guys, and stumbled upon this adjacent thread:

I poked around a little in the WHOIS info on their (allegedly) previously successful domain flip, tacticaldotcom. (Don’t give them the hit by checking it out - it’s an SEO factory capitalizing on doomsday paranoia and filled with Amazon affiliate links, literally nothing more to it. The same model they’re proposing for knittingdotcom.) The domain has WHOIS privacy enabled, but the current domain registered agent is Terran Marketing, LLC in Nevada. According to open corporate, Terran Marketing, LCC is a defunct entity with Michael Jackness (one of these two assholes) listed as the primary agent.

So… they apparently DID NOT sell it for a profit, and they’ve been lying about that to try to get people to sign up for their course.

And this reply:

They managed to fail selling emergency supplies during a pandemic?

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roach-works:

space-stegosaurus:

I’m watching it from a safe distance but the online knitting community got their hands on a couple of tech bros who decided they should buy “knitting.com” for a ton of money and disrupt a marketplace they’ve done zero research on and are basically now just crowdsourcing advice from people who hate them, it’s like watching a bumbling overconfident predator wander into dangerous territory on a documentary

i’ve been sitting in my little safari van with binoculars watching the whole thing unfold in sheer delight, it’s been a hell of a show. they did market research by going to joanne’s fabrics. they spelled purling as pearling when they tried to pretend like they were one of the gang. they explicitly dismissed the existing online community of knitters as ‘grannies with blogs’.

they are not doing so well, is what i am saying.