How many of us Kickstarters are left after 9 years?

@Thumperchick how did you do that? They didn’t hire me but I I also dont live in Texas

@Thumperchick I’ve tricked them into not hiring me

@haydesigner probably the smarter move.

@speediedelivery I still think the decor was a really cool idea for how you get your fans involved in your site

@speediedelivery I’ll bite; how do you find your number?

@speediedelivery @stinks

My number is stored away somewhere and an email from mediocre.com probably in 2013 or similar

@speediedelivery @stinks Find your Mediocre Labs email from 2013. Search your email for Seligman

@Cerridwyn that was me too… The place was already a few months old when I found it. I would have gladly joined the kickstarter had I known about it.

@Cerridwyn I was a long time woot’er but somehow missed out on the new adventure after it was sold off. I would have definitely joined the kickstarter if I knew about it.

@Cerridwyn @scilynt created an account less than a week after meh opened. Was on the site 2 or 3 times prior to that. Found it totally by accident though.

@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz I’m curious how everyone knew… I don’t remember how I finally learned about meh but likely from some random comment on the woot forums lol.

@scilynt snapster would hang out on Deals.Woot quite a bit and so he had quite a few followers there even after he left. One day someone announced that he was starting a new venture, so what else was there to do but follow him?

mediocre.com was created maybe about a year before the Kickstarter was announced, or at least they opened it up to us followers then. We just hung out there talking and speculating what was going to happen and maybe even IF it was ever going to happen.

@Cerridwyn @scilynt I was looking through kickstarter looking for a startup to use in a business class I was teaching and found meh that way. I had been unaware he had started woot, although I didn’t know much about that other than having bought a couple of things from there, but I found the history interesting and thought the class would too. So I went to the forum and hung out and then signed on initially for class purposes and then stayed because I enjoyed it here.

@Barney @scilynt I was following Snapstreak on Twitter when I found out about the new venture and signed up immediately.

@scilynt I think I found out about meh through Slickdeals. When I found out it was the “new woot” without Amazon shenanigans going on I immediately became a regular. I had been using woot for years before that.

I was on Woot for a long time, not sure how I found out about Meh – been here 7 years. I was still on Woot for a while after that, but only Shirt.Woot. Only left entirely because they forcibly removed my subscription to the shirt emails and replaced it with the general daily junk.

@OnionSoup hmm, that could also be how I eventually learned as well, now that your mention it. I assumed it was seeing some mention on woot forums but I didn’t spend a lot of time in there and even less after the Amazon takeover. But I did spend a ton of time on slickdeals so maybe a random deal posted there, or a comment, tipped me off lol.

I don’t think I used Twitter much back then so doubt it was seeing a snapster tweet, otherwise I likely would have known much sooner.

@OnionSoup @scilynt

I found woot from Slickdeals.

Was late to the party.

And this is kind of weird given that I may well have bought techie stuff from @snapster, in the dark early one Saturday morning or other, under highway 75 in the old days

@joelmw
Did you ever go shopping at First Saturday’s?

How about others from DFW? Did any of you ever have the flashlight habit there?

@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @scilynt @f00l I don’t know how much is appropriate to say about other people’s lives. I never know. But my wife was working as a nanny for one of the e-suites (a great guy, the mediocre exec whereof I speak). He told her that he was working with Snapster on a new thing called mediocre. I checked it out. The community seemed very “in crowd” in a way that I admire but didn’t feel comfortable wedging into. So I very much stayed at a distance, didn’t even check in very much and I don’t recall that I ever commented in those early days (though I had created an account). I’d bought a thing or two from Woot!, but didn’t know it well and hadn’t been part of that crowd.

But I was tuned in enough to know about the Kickstarter and really liked the vibe, so I bought in (and have been a VMP continually from way back; no, I don’t have all my stats and I’m not gonna fucking look it up ). Even from launch, it all felt a little cliquey, so many ex-wooters who all seemed to know each other and had the inside jokes and shit. Again, not hating, but I’m accustomed to being an outsider and being told about it even. I admit to having baggage. But eventually I weaseled my way in, feeling a lot like the freaky kid for a long time (fuck, still, if I’m honest), never quite knowing if I’d modulated my voice right and whatnot. I’m prone to enthusiasms and, if given the chance, rants of every sort (both happy and un). Eventually I found my peeps here. I’ve still never felt part of the beautiful people, but I love my meh nerds.

Fun fact: I’ve been to a child’s birthday party where Snapster was in attendance, and otherwise seen him in the wild. He seems a likable fellow irl. I think he and our original contact are a lot of why I like this place. I’m not much a fan of capitalist bullshit. Which is quite ironic, because I am quite the consumer and this place is all capitalist bullshit, but in a sufficiently self-deprecating way I can appreciate.

@f00l @OnionSoup @scilynt @snapster I have indeed been to several First Saturdays. Had no idea Snapster hung out there. That (specifically, my attendance, ca 2008-2009) was during my lonely widowhood. Talk about an odd collection of mostly useless, often sketchy shit. You ever been to one of those places that sells fire damaged shit? Or a garage sale that looks like someone jacked a semi full of random, for some reason mostly used or low-rent electronics? That was very much First Saturday. And a lot of folks clearly for whatever reason on the fringes. And I bought some of it. I’m hindsight, probably what primed me for meh. I work downtown and in those days what better was I doing with my time than staying late on a Friday.

Wish I’d met you irl, @f00l. If you’re ever in the neighborhood, we should grab coffee.

@joelmw @OnionSoup @scilynt @snapster

@snapster used to be a vendor.

He would pick up remainder items and off lease items and stuff like that and sell it under Hwy 75 at First Saturday

I was there during the early 90s

After that, either friends to source stuff for me, or we got it from Amazon or we went to Fry’s

I was there in the old old days before I had ever used a non-lynx browser

So that puts me before 1995 by a good bit

@joelmw @OnionSoup @scilynt @snapster

I’m on the Big D side of things at least a few times a month.

@Cerridwyn
maybe consider a run at being GOAT. The dead goat will trump your poop icon at that point.

@f00l

Ouch.
Way wrong image for “lair” and no time left to edit.

ZERO POLITICAL COMMENTS PLEASE

{VMod edit: Refreshed the Giphy.}

@f00l
Thanks, MOD!

@f00l okay I’m curious.

/giphy lair

@f00l @stinks
evidently giphy can’t tell lair from liar which would seem to be the point of that gif!

@Macoland I have my socks as well.

@Fodder650 @Macoland Me, too.

@Macoland those meh socks were really nice socks. I don’t know what happened to mine though. They were for a while my favourite socks.

@Macoland I still have my socks. They’re amazing. And bordering on transparent in places because of how much I’ve worn them.

@shahnm

Maybe if you keep yourself in the refrigerator

Actually, I think the first Woot, which I think was in 2004 was a really fancy cool MP3 player which I lost it after and didn’t realize it was selling

I didn’t discover work for at least five years after that I think

What does MP3 player was back in the days of hard drive MP3 players?

And this one incorporated, a flash drive where you could put a little music or a hard drive or you could put a lot of music

So you could either have something really lightweight or you could have something with your music library on it

Depending on the size of your music library

I forgotten the brand because bigger brands sort of eight the business app, and then along came the iPhone

But that original woot if I’m correct, was a wonderful thing and I wish I’d gotten one

I think the company cooperated with Woot for a splashy product launched on that way

But I may have it all wrong. Maybe that device was offered later

@f00l Believe it or not, it was the robot lawn mower (though the mp3 player sounds cool too!)…

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/matt-rutledge-woot-has-a-new-deal-mediocre-corporation/#:~:text=The first item that Woot,consumer electronics and other categories.

@f00l @shahnm
ROBOT LAWN MOWER?!?
Geez … I’m jealous.

@f00l @Kyeh I still remember the discussion thread on Fatwallet (RIP…). The price was ridiculously cheap, and $5 shipping?? Was it a legit crazy good deal or was it a scam?!?

Well, after years of Woot, and even more years of Meh, the answer has certainly become clear. It was a scam…

@f00l @shahnm I’d pay good money to have a push lawnmower with a C-3PO clone walking behind it.

@f00l @phendrick What kinda dollars you talkin’? I know a guy…

@fuzzmanmatt Oooh the AOC 28" 4K FreeSync from Myriad of Monitors? I wish mine had VESA but otherwise one of the better meh purchases I’ve made.

You IRKed that? Wow.

@stinks I wish it was that good! It’s a monoprice monitor that I’m assuming came out of someone’s cubicle when they got an upgrade. It’s limited to 30FPS, but that’s good enough for the radar display and Teams calls I use it for. The stand was busted when I got it, so it’s hanging on a VESA mount on the wall.

@fuzzmanmatt
way to turn lemons into lemonade!

Ahhhh the memories. This is from the email on October 4th that 2013! I’m getting old.

24 days ago you signed up to be a lab rat at Mediocre Laboratories. Remember that great time? Well you can brag about being Fearless Leader Rat #134 to your mediocre rat friends (and enemies) someday. We can hardly wait to see if you can survive our experimental ecommerce ideas, but right now we’re swamped interviewing and building infrastructure.

In the meantime, as one of the first doomed lab rats to sign up, we want to see if you will help decorate our labs!

Project ID: #Seligman
Theory: Learned Helplessness in Office Decoration

In this experiment, you will receive a deliverable and a request. What will you do? That’s the test. The deliverable is a $20 Amazon gift card. The request is “Please help us decorate our now barren Headquarters.”

@anchovi
what happened to your K badge?

@f00l ok. Found an email

I seem to be #499.

The subject line of the email is

Our first experiment, of sorts…

In case someone is searching the email and could use that

@f00l

This is the email I didn’t bother to read because I hate email

And therefore, I’m not a Kickstarter person

/giphy “poor sad me”

@cbilyak this thread sent me down a Kickstarter rabbit hole, almost backed a few more projects but really should not spend the money. Had to step away.

@joelmw Well since your a goat… yeah things feel like they’ve gone to hell. So yeah probably YOUR fault

@Enigma

Quite true. I’d argue not even “probably”.

/giphy touche

@joelmw Hi sweetie! Miss you.

@Barney

As I do you.

/giphy purple love

@joelmw So why not come back more often to fuck things up?

@joelmw

@Enigma @joelmw

/image much confuse

@earlyre VMP 4 Life

@james those were the days.

@f00l thanks for this info. I’m lab rat #1,465. If I recall correctly I sent a Kramer poster (in smoking jacket w/pipe), a George poster (seductively in boxer shorts) and a cool mug with rhinestones that says “PIMP”.

@haydesigner

Got to woot v late.

About the time deals.woot started up.

I suppose if I logged in the woot it might kill me how long I’ve been around