[TAForObvReasons]

A specialty business like PlanBags doesn't survive 50 years without building deep decades-long relationships with some customers. It's easy to forget that in tech when the biggest players shut down services with no lead time.

[dawnerd]

It's amazing how many companies out there that specialize in one thing and do that one thing very well.

Example: https://www.ballchain.com/about-us/

[unwind]

Wow, what a cool company! Makes me itch to order hundreds of feet of ball chain and make a huge chain fountain [1] to entertain the kids!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_fountain

[c0nsumer]

When I was buying a bunch of N95 masks I came across "Bona Fide Masks" and was initially taken aback that it was the same company as "ballchain.com". My first thought was "Oh great, some shady thing...".

Then I got looking into ballchain.com and was quite impressed for exactly what you say: they do something really well.

[thechao]

This company restores dash boards for cars (anything from ~1960–~2000):

https://www.justdashes.com

[sokoloff]

There’s a company specializing in restoring lighted panels for aircraft: https://aircapitoldial.com/

I’ve got a few friends/acquaintances running nice single-digit million revenue companies doing some of the strangest things.

One of them turned a quite niche idea (“ice as a service”) into a successful 8-figures ARR company and sold it.

[Aeolun]

Sweet! You get free shipping if you order 2000ft of ball chain.