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It's the Juicero of whatever market this is.
I work from home and this would be cool to communicate with my kids when I'm on a call before they barge in asking questions. HOWEVER, the price is WAY too high. This is at most a $50 dollar thing.
Worked great with my kids for 2 months. Then they got used to it and barged in anyway. The same would happen with this gadget.
Does it work without a subscription?
That hand... it's totally in the uncanny valley of hand motion.
That's pretty neat, although $250 feels like a lot for that at first glance. I get it has a lot of features but it's hard to get past the "it's a $250 busy indicator". Not that I'd spend $250, but even something like that sold more as an open device to be used for a lot of different things changes (for the better) the value proposition in my mind a little than just sold as a busy sign with lots of integrations. Grant…
I'd pay for a cheaper app version of this that I could run on an old no-SIM phone.
Though, mind you, said app doesn't perform exactly the same function as the bar itself; "Busy App" seems to be more of a distraction-blocking pomodoro timer for your own phone, rather than a digital "busy sign" for you to point at the rest of the room.
IMHO, presuming a desk implies a PC (or laptop dock) with at least one spare USB port — the simplest thing here wouldn't even be an old phone; it'd just be a red USB light (think a red siren, but without the moving/flashing) that you could set on top of your desk/monitor/cubicle wall, and control with a little menu bar widget (perhaps automatically, by heuristic.)
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I hate it. Total revulsion of that hand. Makes me want to vomit. Single handedly turns me off from the product.
The way it moves makes me think it’s ai-generated..
https://cdn.flipperzero.one/BusyBar_First_Block_Video_Deskto...
Back in my day the arrogant devs just used printer paper and a hand drawn sign saying "GO AWAY!" taped to the back of their chair.
Mine was updated to "Go away, or I will replace you with a small shell script". I wish I could remember where I read that from for proper attribution.
$249! Too much for something that can be an app.
It's the Juicero of whatever market this is.
I work from home and this would be cool to communicate with my kids when I'm on a call before they barge in asking questions. HOWEVER, the price is WAY too high. This is at most a $50 dollar thing.
and when I say "designer" I use the word like it's used in the term "designer clothing"