I really want to do this with a pi zero w, but with a larger screen. 7.5” is barely larger than a door placard.
The best displays seem to be reserved for ebook vendors. I’m using a boox device with a PWA (webpage that works as an app).
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#32I don’t really understand how it is still trendy to pretend that everyone uses Google for email and calendar. I get that the SF crowd was all about it, but if the last few years have taught us anything it is that there’s more to the techie world than VC free money startups. I reckon there are far more people who need this and who might buy this who are using Outlook/Office 365 either alone or in some combination than…
I'd wager that far more individuals use GMail and Google calendar and a majority of business users use O365/Outlook. This looks more like a home device than a business device.
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#33I was looking for something like this. But the API looks not so good. I always dreamed of something like this that has an API where I can send html to render and completely locally.
How about an android ebook?
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#34I can’t believe the price on e-Ink displays still. Unbelievable that they’re more expensive than IPS OLED screens of similar size.
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#35Pictures are deceitful, screen is only 7.5", fair price I'm not sure, no details on SDK.
It certainly appears like 15".
Wow, sorry, that was not my intention.
I am going to have new pictures taken anyways, I will try to make sure to add some size references.
There are a bunch of photos here. Which ones would you say are the most suggestive of a bigger screen size? I can maybe re-sort the images to prevent confusion.
Last thing I want is a customer ordering something, them being unhappy and me having to process a return. That's always a loss for me.
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#36A lot of little projects like this that end up going bust because of the cost of running the business. Still cool that projects like this are launched.
Not OP here, but I saw a bunch of traffic coming to my website, so I checked and found this post ;)
I try to keep things lean. Reduce fixed costs, especially server costs, since I want to keep this running 10 years AFTER I sell the last display.
I outsource some stuff but I make sure everything can be scaled down when I the business is slow.
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#37I was looking for something like this. But the API looks not so good. I always dreamed of something like this that has an API where I can send html to render and completely locally.
Creator here. I plan to support HTML rendering but I can't promise anything.
You can already point it to an image url with an image in the right resolution on the internet, and it will render that.
But for pointing it to an HTML page, you need a headless browser and that comes with a bunch of practical issues.
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#38I don’t really understand how it is still trendy to pretend that everyone uses Google for email and calendar. I get that the SF crowd was all about it, but if the last few years have taught us anything it is that there’s more to the techie world than VC free money startups. I reckon there are far more people who need this and who might buy this who are using Outlook/Office 365 either alone or in some combination than…
I use Google for email and calendar still. Never really found a way to transition off of it. :(
For email, it's straightforward but a bit tedious. There are a number of ways to break it into smaller steps. Any approach should include getting your own domain name.
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#39I don’t really understand how it is still trendy to pretend that everyone uses Google for email and calendar. I get that the SF crowd was all about it, but if the last few years have taught us anything it is that there’s more to the techie world than VC free money startups. I reckon there are far more people who need this and who might buy this who are using Outlook/Office 365 either alone or in some combination than…
I’d imagine the creator uses Google calendar, made it for themself, and then decided others might like to have a pre-built version. “Trendy” probably doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Creator here. That's exactly what happened.