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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.



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/


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


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.


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

https://www.justdashes.com


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.


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




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