Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2024

57 points · mooritzvc · 8 days ago

Someone asked this at the beginning of last year [0] and the year before [1] and I got a lot of great ideas from the comments.

Thought I'd continue the tradition especially as its getting harder and harder to filter signal from noise using traditional search.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585109 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687

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serjester · 8 days ago

High quality casters for your office chair - they all come with generic, cheap plastic casters no matter how nice the actual chair. You can pick up, top quality rubber casters for $20 off amazon [1]. Makes rolling around 10X better.

[1] https://a.co/d/dqXmP4F

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solardev · 8 days ago

Also, my Jetbrains IDEs (mostly use Webstorm and RubyMine). As an individual, I pay $173/year for their all products pack after a 40%loyalty discount. It's an incredible productivity boost over VScode and I'm quite happy to pay for it.

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ravenstine · 8 days ago

A Levoit air purifier for my apartment.

It turns out my respiratory and sleep issues came down to indoor air pollution. Within two hours of receiving the purifier and turning it on full blast, my sinuses cleared, even when laying down for bed. That night I had intense dreams and have been dreaming much more ever since.

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opwieurposiu · 8 days ago

I got a cable tie gun (aka zip tie gun) and it it does it's job perfectly. Pulls the cable tie to the correct tension and then cuts of the excess perfectly flush. Very satisfying to use. The one I got is made by panduit, but there are many brands that work more or less the same way.

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folknor · 8 days ago

I upgraded my bed linens from standard cheapest cotton to satin.

It's such a huge difference I can't quite put it into words. It's completely different. I love it - some people might not though.

It feels cool and smooth. I sleep wearing only boxer briefs, and did previously as well.

One downside is you have to wash and dry them separately - but I already did that anyway because of the load.

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