I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one

Ai article or not. Today I decided to look at the good side of life. Product solves a niche problem. Thumbs up.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094460 from 11 months ago.

Pun notwithstanding, what a fun itch to scratch! A clever single-user solution becomes it's own industry. I'd love to repeat this sort of growth myself, and find such clever solutions to real world problems.

Canine discoid lupus erythematosus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_discoid_lupus_erythemat...

I wouldn't attach it to the neck, when the head moves with respect to the neck the nose guard pushes, slides, pulls on the sensitive area.

Better to have some part hook at the back of the head or any bony protrusions on the sides or back of the head, perhaps in the vicinity of the ears.

I wonder if microplastics ingestion is a thing to be wary of.

The idea is good and cute (the AI writing is a slog to read though). But I wince a bit at seeing a pit with something looking like a mouth guard at a glance, as if they're not scary enough already.

You sold 500 at $20 a piece? That's $10K. Not a whole lot of moonies these days.

Can you build a viable business against such low sales?

DLE, I had never heard of it. Something like lupus and it needs protection from the sun. One smart guy to come up with a simple solution.. Very good use of 3D printer.

I love writing that uses acronyms and never defines them.

I would be concerned about the lead in 3d prints. They are not food safe.

I think there will be a market for video game styles armour for dogs

Hmmm, something made to sit in direct sunlight shouldn’t be black or very dark.

Did they really have to sensor the photos of a few stitches on a snout ?

Like, why ?

Author here. Thanks everyone for being mean, I mean that in the best way :)

Fair points. I’m a designer, not a writer, so I used an LLM to help write it. The story and the dogs are real. After reading the comments I removed the parts that felt off and defined DLE (discoid lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune skin condition made worse by sun).

My dog Billie has it, and that’s what started all this. I made the cover for her, shared it free, and it grew from there.

> I want to be honest about what happened next, because it matters

I like the project but using Claude sure didn't improve this article.

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