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where do you see that they are Russian? they seem to have a bunch of US Patents, a Delaware postal HQ, and an office in the UK
Most of the staff looks to be Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipper-devices/people/
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#12I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
Seems like quite a bit of hardware engineering went into the design. But if you are hacker and don't care too much about the aesthetics you could probably get 90% of the functionality with an ESP32, a GPIO extender, an LED array, an OLED display and a 3D printed case for like $30.
The Ulanzi TC001 devices are kind of near (without the double screen and all the buttons and stuff) for around $50. IIRC they have an ESP32 and have at least 1 or 2 alternative opensource firmwares.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
where do you see that they are Russian? they seem to have a bunch of US Patents, a Delaware postal HQ, and an office in the UK
Most of the staff looks to be Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipper-devices/people/
The top "Where they live" is UK.
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where do you see that they are Russian? they seem to have a bunch of US Patents, a Delaware postal HQ, and an office in the UK
the original team is Russian, but they downplay that a lot now (until you buy one and the promo stickers are in Russian). yes, they're registered in Delaware, almost every company that operates in the US is, including foreign companies.
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#15I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
Seems like quite a bit of hardware engineering went into the design. But if you are hacker and don't care too much about the aesthetics you could probably get 90% of the functionality with an ESP32, a GPIO extender, an LED array, an OLED display and a 3D printed case for like $30.
A few years ago, I built a simpler version of that device myself.
As you said: A 90% solution is easy to hack together. I had mine displaying Skype for Business status so my colleagues would know if I was in a call or just listening to music.
The harder part or much rather the time consuming part is getting a good status message from the installed apps. It looks like there is plenty of software and APIs available.
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#16I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
It is a bit pricey, but probably not overpriced. This kind of niche product is not going to get good economies of scale, those custom molded plastic parts are going to get pretty expensive when not being produced by the million.
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#17Looks slick - the backside of the device does look a little "busy" and distracting if I had to stare at it on the top of my monitor.
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#18Why is everyone complaining on the price tag? It is a product that someone made for profit just like everyone else here is trying to do.
Did Hacker News turn into Daily Deals?
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#19I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
Maybe I’m not the target audience but I wouldn’t pay more than $20 for something like this, because I don’t have a burning need for it.
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#20Good but expensive, also does not solve for people behind or side of you.