by GardenKitchenHome
The first plastic shower caddy I bought lasted six months. The second one — the "premium" stainless steel one with the suction cups — fell off the wall while I was in the shower and dropped a half-full Costco shampoo bottle on my foot. I replaced both within a year. Both ended up in a landfill.
It is a small object. It also represents, in miniature, almost everything wrong with how we make and buy things now. A category dominated by single-digit-dollar plastic items engineered to fail. The "upgrade" tier is the same product with marketing on top. The genuinely durable option doesn't exist in any retailer most people shop at.
So we made it. Solid brass frame. Marine-grade stainless steel hardware. A mount that uses gravity and friction the way physics intended, not adhesive strips and prayers. Designed to fit the bottles you actually own, not the photoshop renders in the product listing.
This is the first product in what we hope is a long line of objects that work. Considered things for the bath, the kitchen, and the home. We'll move slowly, we'll get a lot of it wrong the first time, and we'll fix it when we do. Thanks for being here at the start.