Anyone know how are the folks behind this and VC? This is a way too polish product and 'production' for a startup...
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#292First the Nintendo alarm clock and now a sign that says "busy" - But it's hackable! You nerds will buy anything
Yes! What are you gonna make?
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their CEO? :)
No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)
Funnily, the way I used to check Keybase profiles is to check Twitter because a blue checkmark there was usually a good indication of them being "the famous person" but thanks to Twitter Blue that feature is no longer usable.
I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.
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#294This is at least the 3rd version of this product idea that I’ve seen in the past decade. Certainly the nicest design! The first time I saw this was some friends of friends who were trying to make it into a startup. They quickly discovered that their users liked the idea of a busy light for the office, but didn’t like to update it on or off throughout the day. So after the first few days people just defaulted to leavi…
That seems like an easy fix: Tell visitors to look at the light.
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#295This is at least the 3rd version of this product idea that I’ve seen in the past decade. Certainly the nicest design! The first time I saw this was some friends of friends who were trying to make it into a startup. They quickly discovered that their users liked the idea of a busy light for the office, but didn’t like to update it on or off throughout the day. So after the first few days people just defaulted to leavi…
That seems like an easy fix: Tell visitors to look at the light.
That’s the problem: If the light is always on, or almost always on, then it quickly loses meaning.
Unless the user actually adds green available time at regular intervals throughout the day, people learn that they have to ignore the red busy light and ask.
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#296This is at least the 3rd version of this product idea that I’ve seen in the past decade. Certainly the nicest design! The first time I saw this was some friends of friends who were trying to make it into a startup. They quickly discovered that their users liked the idea of a busy light for the office, but didn’t like to update it on or off throughout the day. So after the first few days people just defaulted to leavi…
That seems like an easy fix: Tell visitors to look at the light.
Sounds like a fast to way to get nicknamed “Larry” around the office.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Put a CO2 + temp/humidity sensor in there and it's a no-brainer. The sensors could be nice to hack on too.
Ahh, the inevitable slippery slope of feature requests. Making hardware for geeks is a tough business because they’ll always say they’d buy it if it had just one or two more features, but by the time you add all of the feature requests they complain that it’s too expensive.
> but by the time you add all of the feature requests they complain that it’s too expensive.
Or that it’s too complicated. Then another startup comes along to “simplify” the product and the cycle begins anew.
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)
Funnily, the way I used to check Keybase profiles is to check Twitter because a blue checkmark there was usually a good indication of them being "the famous person" but thanks to Twitter Blue that feature is no longer usable. I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.
> but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately
At least a GitHub profile link can usually be used to validate that this account actually has write access to a GitHub organization, so you can somewhat see it's the right person. Requires them to have pushed any public commits to within that organization though.
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#299This seems like something I have been looking to add to my home office.
I would love to have a companion device that I can stick to the outside of a closed office door
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a coworker who felt free to interrupt me at any time. Even if I were frowning and leaning in to read some code word for word, he’d stop by to talk about nothing. I started wearing headphones when I was in concentration mode and that didn’t help. Then I wrote “DO NOT DISTURB” on a post-it note, stuck it to my headphones, and dug in for some thought-intensive hacking. He came to my desk, pulled the note off the h…
There's always that person. The only solution is renting your own office (not even home office unless one lives alone).
Murder is always an option. If you can get one thought worker on the jury, you'd never be convicted.