alzymologist

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm trying the store idea, looking into collab with a bar or a restoraunt, or a brewery. No luck so far, maybe I'll just open my own bar someday.

Thanks for suggestions!

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 8 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah, I've been promoting stuff in Fediverse and through local brewers stores (which are not exactly doing well themselves). I can't just go ahead and advertise something related to alcohol, apparently it's one of the most popular downfalls of new hipster breweries - illegal advertising. And I do not want to promote stuff through Meta and X and Linkedin. Thus I expected some network effect - but so far clearly things are quite bad.

If you are still looking for yeast, please welcome to my webstore store.zymologia.fi or DM, I have more under the bench.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago

These guys had more than that. I shopped there about once a year, the shirts did last - on children, this is unusual - and they just look awesome, he wears those to competition music concerts, just kid's t-shirts, and they look totally appropriately stylish.

I'm not even talking here about why my stuff in unique and best lol.

 

My favorite children clothes store https://www.maammekauppa.fi/ is shutting down (I'm not affiliated, but where will I buy those pretty and durable shirts now?), reason - people are not buying local, one of two local manufacturers who was their suppliers went down last fall for the same reason. This fanatically local and very personal shop just didn't make it. And as small local business owner, I see my reflection in their shutdown.

This is just sad.

And they are right. I'm (affiliated here) trying to sell local brewing yeast for a year now, and almost nobody buys it. I offered gardening chemicals to supermarket networks to be marketed as local - they say there is no demand, they end up with unsold surplus of this (and they know their numbers). I want to believe and praise "buy European" story, but right now the opposite is happening.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

You were right! They do indeed make filters in EU from EU produced fabric! And they were kind enough to offer me a roll to buy, but by that time I ran out of cash. I hope I'll recover soon and go ahead and give it a test.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

And, furthermore, large potential market for less-than-masterpiece artisanal is in DIY. But kitchen knives are occupational hazard if they are crappy. Needless to say, there is an artisan smith in my village, so who cares for brands.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Fiskars still makes knives in Finland, their chinese chef is something like 30 Eur, Finnish chef is 250 Eur, versus japanese or swiss at 150 Eur. Duh. Such is the cost of labor here.

And all steel stock for abovementioned blades (except for chinese) just comes from Japan anyway lol.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

No, it's mostly "what else can we do with a good forge (and guys who keep smiths operational)?"

And then, sadly, "how do we improve sales performance for things where customer would not notice it's unethical shit"

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

They have a brewery too!

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Also Sorsakoski is my neighbour village just across the lake, yay, mom, look, we are on TV!

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Fiskars things are good as long as they are actually made in Finland. Pity that many of their products are just chinese junk and you've got to read the labels even though you know the brand.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Print me something

 

Hello!

I own and run a small technology company in Finland. I've been reluctant to advertise here for some time, even after asking in Matrix channel of this group some months ago, but now I've finally made my mind. It's more of introduction post, I guess, because I'm really bad at marketing.

I'm also make this as a statement: don't just buy European. Sell European! We are blessed with social security systems the rest of the world could not dream about, trying for business opportunities never results in uncertain future - if all fails, we stand for each other. So please, try the new things, be entrepreneurs, and be small if you have to, for it's small businesses and their humble people who really make the Europe economy run!

Anyway, we've been bold enough to actually manufacture things that are commonly thought to be made in Asia (or sometimes USA) here, in EU, better and sometimes (not always) cheaper. And we are just a few friends doing this weird thing for fun and to stay afloat financially.

Here is a webstore link: https://store.zymologia.fi/

It's not pretty, but I suppose there is no European alternative for most of this stuff, and people who need it (as far as I can tell) do not really care for pretty webstores.

We make plant cell culture chemicals. For example, root growth hormone gel, dip a plant cutting in it and it will grow roots much more reliably than normally. Just today I discovered that not only regular plants regrow roots, but also so did this piece of grape my neighbor sliced from his plant erroneously without any buds on it, last leaves it had were in October, still growing roots (not sure it will survive)

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Another product is BAP-6, hormone that stimulates shoot formation. We've just finished rolling out it's production last week, so I'll try some on these leafless grapes to save them. We'll make a gel with this soon and place it in store as well, but anyone can already just make a gel from this powder.

And we make microcloning supplies, that allow propagating plants from a single stem cell (plants have plenty of these) in a jar, without light or any watering. Good way to grow plenty of, say, berry bushes, or rare plants.

We also have bee monitoring wireless sensors that we've developed here and assemble here to order: http://apiologia.zymologia.fi/ These are useful for beekeepers, the data they collect could predict swarming several days in advance (it's a bold statement as most other products could at most do it within 30 minutes or so when you don't really need a sensor to see what is about to happen; but we've found some know-how in old soviet research and made it work).

We also make really good liquid brewers yeast strains through pure culture technology, fed with all-grain pilsner malt, lively and ready to action.

All is handmade with love, we use our products ourselves (more than we sell, unfortunately). So if you, or some of your friends, are into some of these or similar weird hobbies and in need of supplies, or need something new developed and made locally, please contact me!

 

Does anyone know if any quality meltblown tissue is made here and if so where can I buy a roll?

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