[newhotelowner]

I want something that cleans my bathroom and toilet. I will buy it for my business and will pay 20-30k/year.

Also, something to Clean my dishes (Load in the dishwasher, turn it on, and put it away).

Doing my laundry - load, wash and fold. Mow the lawn.

[sgt]

Pretty sure you can get a domestic service to pop by at much lower than that. Biologics are still king.

[CPLX]

I just want a machine that will produce a cup of something that is almost, but not completely, unlike tea.

[rrr_oh_man]

Thank you for reminding me of this fabulous book.

[exe34]

You can get shitty vending machines for that!

[huytersd]

Automated lawn mowing is relatively mature at this point and works well, assuming you have a relatively flat lawn.

A one time purchase price of 20k would be acceptable. $20-30k per year is ridiculous. For that price you can hire a person to come and clean your toilet for 5 hours a day, every single day.

[sgt]

So... I have a gardener. He works two days a week doing all kinds of stuff.

The mowing itself (and trimming) takes 5% of his time, or even less.

Funny how people enjoy automating the part that you easily could do yourself without a massive time impact.

[huytersd]

It depends. My backyard lawn is about 2 acres in size. It takes me 1.5 hours to manually mow it with a small 21 inch powered push mower. I just let the auto mower do its thing continuously and it charges itself. Costs almost nothing since I sharpen the blades about once a month myself. It’s also nice because the grass is always trimmed. You don’t have to go through the let it get tall and the landscaper mows it down every two weeks cycle.

[newhotelowner]

What kind of auto mower?

[huytersd]

Husqvarna

[sgt]

Oh yeah, I my lawn isn't that large. But I try to have less lawn and more plants and interesting flora. I also feel that is better for the environment somehow, although <citation needed>.

[bartonfink]

That's part of why tech products disappoint. The MO is to reduce a complex problem to a simple base case (our robot can vacuum an entire house provided you have no stairs or furniture), half ass solving the complexities, and market your product as if they don't matter.

I'll continue doing stuff myself or paying humans. My time is too valuable to waste on empty promises that tech will save me time.

[lunfardl]

says the guy paying someone else to do it

[sgt]

You created an account on HN just to say that?

[newhotelowner]

I own a hotel. 20k per year robot that cleans bathroom will save me 20k.

[guhidalg]

I would pay like $5000 for a laundry folding robot. I just want a big washing-machine sized box where I dump my laundry at the top and slowly everything gets folded. That's 1 hour / week freed up.

[rrr_oh_man]

You could get yourself a drying cabinet (basically a closet with an A/C inside).

[guhidalg]

That could handle items on hangers, but I'm talking about folding underwear, shorts, T-shirts, pants, etc... That requires careful manipulation.

[rrr_oh_man]

I used to think so, too, but solved this the following:

Hanging EVERYTHING. Not only shirts and jackets, but also t-shirts, pants, shorts.

This leaves one drawer each for socks and underwear, which both is not horrible from a laundry management perspetive.

[canthonytucci]

If you replace enough of your cabinets with dishwashers you never need to put dishes away again.

[hapticmonkey]

Tech companies: best we can do is an AI that reads your kids bedtime stories. You know, the moments we actually cherish. The manual labor is all we'll humans have left to do.

[tmpz22]

Oops you left Storyteller.ai running on autoplay and its been reading Mein Kamp for two hours

[bombcar]

Make your bathroom entirely waterproof and add a drain and high pressure sprinklers. Done.