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Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

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Re: Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity

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Post by mikkergp »

xwowsersx wrote: post #28

Looks very slick. I'm not sure I understand why I'd want stock prices and social feeds on my desk though, but I guess that's configurable. I imagine this is a personal preference thing, but I've never really understood the appeal of having task lists and such in my face all the time, whether it be on a watch or a widget on my phone home screen or wherever. If I'm managing tasks, I'll open up my task list and then sho…

Slack would be interesting. I have two displays now, one for work, one for monitoring/slack/logs etc. Though I often use the second display for a web browser to read one thing while working on another. The second monitor always felt like overkill, but it is very functional. The only problem with this is the ergonomics. Would the keyboard get in the way? Do I have to stand up or like lift myself to read it? It seems like it would have to tilt up to be functional.

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Post by entropie »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #53

Congrats on the launch. Your website is super annoying to me. Gray on black prevents me to read much of the text without highlighting or zooming in. Those image swaps for scrolling is very distracting and disconcerting. Convince me that your desk is worth the money (which we do not know), compared to buying an Ikea door and set of sturdy electric stand/sit legs with memory ($600). The drawings on your website do look…

> Your website is super annoying to me.

I had the same feeling. The background images are just annoying.

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Post by dang »

You can't do a Show HN with just a signup page. There needs to be a way for people to try out the product. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

A physical product such as a desk obviously can't be tried out over the internet, but the product needs to physically exist and there needs to be some meaningful way to look it over.

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Post by ckluis »

As long as your taking input/feedback - look at smartdesk (integrated monitors) or at least integrated monitor stand(s).

Unrelated, Geminos (stacked monitor solution on kickstarter) is doing something interesting with monitors (which frankly have stagnated for a long time). Consider that general purpose monitors and/or pre-configured monitor set-ups specific to your desk solution might help people visualize their use case.

Monitor stand on the desk is a turn-off for me.

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

xwowsersx wrote: post #28

Looks very slick. I'm not sure I understand why I'd want stock prices and social feeds on my desk though, but I guess that's configurable. I imagine this is a personal preference thing, but I've never really understood the appeal of having task lists and such in my face all the time, whether it be on a watch or a widget on my phone home screen or wherever. If I'm managing tasks, I'll open up my task list and then sho…

I agree, seems like it would be very distracting to have something, doesn't matter what, constantly scrolling/updating on a non-primary display. I purposely put weather, stocks, news, social, etc. out of the way so I can focus on work. On Mac this is just the side-bar thingy with widgets for those things.

My todo lists are always pen/paper because digital ones do not work for me. I get that there are people that use digital task lists and work well with them. I like having a desktop I can write on or not worry about spilling drinks on too.

I just got a sit/stand desk and have been watching various youtube videos on desk accessories and there is a whole category of what I would call desk porn - amazing looking, beautiful setups, tidy wires, special lighting, etc. that are just impractical from a daily need to do work perspective. They seem staged for the sole purpose of taking fancy pictures of them. This desk looks geared for people that want to mimic those desk setups. I'll stick to my post-it notes here and there, notebooks, real books, toys, etc. littered across my desk.

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Post by bananaiina »

The screen feels like something that would ultimately end up detracting from my health and productivity as other comments have similarly mentioned already.

I love the power sockets and wireless charging aspects of this though, and I'd be super interested in a version without the embedded display.

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Post by jahewson »

pineconewarrior wrote: post #56
bdcravens wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a 2-leg Uplift desk, and I really have to lean into it to make it wobble

Do you have monitor arms? The tiny wobble is exaggerated by the monitor arms. Plus, when standing, I do often lean into the desk a bit.

Strap some weights to your monitor arm.
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