Why are the buttons are printed to be readable from the large sign side of the device and not the management side?
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#22Why 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?
It's honestly not even that expensive considering all the functionality you get and the tech included (which is something HN should understand)
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#23Does this really beat a printed BUSY clipart taped to my screen? It's far from the first product I see like this and the question is always the same.
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#25Does this really beat a printed BUSY clipart taped to my screen? It's far from the first product I see like this and the question is always the same.
It does cover people interrupting you to ask “ok but how long will you be busy?” :) unless you want to replace your taped clip art every minute or so.
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#26I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
How much do you think it should cost?
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#27I might buy this to use as follows.
I want a work-time tracker that lights a bright LED every 5 minutes or so, and as long as I'm there and working I smash a button and the light goes off for another 5 minutes. Some algorithm tracks the times I have hit the button and displays how long I have been working on said task.
I'm picturing something fairly cheap, like a stop watch or 3 button kitchen timer. A LED, a few buttons, a LCD display, a AAA battery slot, and an internal timing circuit is all that's needed (and a case to hold it together).
This would basically be a stop watch that stops on its own if neglected, and I can imagine a few uses for it.
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#28I'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.
They do if you insist on molding them, but for small runs 3D printing ought to provide a baseline maximum cost.
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#29Why 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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#30I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
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