[HN Gopher] Busy Status Bar
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Busy Status Bar
Author : aleksi
Score : 735 points
Date : 2024-10-14 15:19 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| robertlagrant wrote:
| I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
| puzzlingcaptcha wrote:
| Seems like quite a bit of hardware engineering went into the
| design.
|
| But if you are hacker and don't care too much about the
| aesthetics you could probably get 90% of the functionality with
| an ESP32, a GPIO extender, an LED array, an OLED display and a
| 3D printed case for like $30.
| tecleandor wrote:
| The Ulanzi TC001 devices are kind of near (without the double
| screen and all the buttons and stuff) for around $50. IIRC
| they have an ESP32 and have at least 1 or 2 alternative
| opensource firmwares.
| zeroflow wrote:
| A few years ago, I built a simpler version of that device
| myself.
|
| As you said: A 90% solution is easy to hack together. I had
| mine displaying Skype for Business status so my colleagues
| would know if I was in a call or just listening to music.
|
| The harder part or much rather the time consuming part is
| getting a good status message from the installed apps. It
| looks like there is plenty of software and APIs available.
| whitehexagon wrote:
| or maybe a repurposed eWaste phone/tablet, or at this price
| probably a new phone.
| echoangle wrote:
| Can confirm, here's a small BOM:
|
| 8x 8x8 WS2812 Matrix $2 each = $16
|
| ESP32 $3
|
| 1x some acrylic to laser-cut a case in a makerspace $5
|
| So $24 total. The screen would be much larger than the Busy
| Bar version, which could be a pro or a con, depending on what
| you want.
|
| If you need the smaller back screen (I don't see the use
| because I would control it from a computer anyways), that
| would add another $3 or so. The buttons are basically free
| but if we assume $3, that's $30 like you said in total.
| shadowpho wrote:
| no, that's not how much that costs at all lol
| echoangle wrote:
| Ever been on Aliexpress? I was roughly converting prices
| from EUR to $ and adding some spare for tolerance, here's
| what I actually paid:
|
| LED Matrix: 5 for 6,33EUR (that is 1,27EUR each)
|
| ESP32 C3 Supermini: 3 for 3,56EUR (1,19EUR each)
|
| There's scrap acrylic at my makerspace so I was guessing,
| make it 10EUR and I'm at 23EUR or so.
|
| What numbers do you not believe?
| t-3 wrote:
| 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.
| Filligree wrote:
| They do if you insist on molding them, but for small runs 3D
| printing ought to provide a baseline maximum cost.
| enraged_camel wrote:
| Maybe I'm not the target audience but I wouldn't pay more than
| $20 for something like this, because I don't have a burning
| need for it.
| mplewis wrote:
| How much do you think it should cost?
| foz wrote:
| This seems like an item that business would buy in bulk. $180
| for single dev version, $90 each in packs of 10. Customized
| with your company branding maybe.
| madeofpalk wrote:
| This seems like exactly the price I thought it would be. Maybe
| a bit cheaper to be honest.
|
| Those generic "led pixel clock" tend to be about $50-$80 ish,
| and this looks like a 'nicer' (in some aspects) fancier, more
| niche version of that.
| Justin_K wrote:
| Go build your own for cheaper and see if you can make a living.
| mannyv wrote:
| My guess was $150. Producing things costs a surprisingly large
| amount of money because moqs.
| gffrd wrote:
| Price is high ... but the right price is the price people are
| willing to pay.
|
| ... and people will pay a lot for anything that tickles their
| idea of self-identity, allows them to project an image they
| find favorable, but taps in to some core utility that allows
| you to provide cover for the prior. See: Apple devices,
| fitness, business conferences, this device.
| LeafItAlone wrote:
| I love this idea.
|
| If it was $100 instead of $189, I would order two (one for me,
| one for partner) as soon as they were available.
| darrelld wrote:
| This is cool, I've thought of building something like this for
| years now.
|
| The price is a bit high, but glad to see it in the real world.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| Yeah - I feel like everyone who would _want_ one of these would
| rather build one than pay $189 for it : /
| rpgraham84 wrote:
| "hey what's that flashing box on your monitor?"
|
| "that's my pomodoro timer, it's from a Russian company that
| specializes in devices that enable various forms of cybercrime.
| you may have heard of the widespread wave of fraud circa 2019"
|
| "oh neat, no I haven't heard of that"
|
| "hey what's the wifi password again?"
| dingnuts wrote:
| where do you see that they are Russian? they seem to have a
| bunch of US Patents, a Delaware postal HQ, and an office in the
| UK
| NicuCalcea wrote:
| Most of the staff looks to be Russian:
| https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipper-devices/people/
| hiatus wrote:
| The top "Where they live" is UK.
| rpgraham84 wrote:
| whew. that's a relief
| rpgraham84 wrote:
| the original team is Russian, but they downplay that a lot
| now (until you buy one and the promo stickers are in
| Russian). yes, they're registered in Delaware, almost every
| company that operates in the US is, including foreign
| companies.
| Nzen wrote:
| The company makes Flipper Zero as well. When they launched
| that product, the same topic came up [0]. The strongest
| argument given seems to hinge on the former
| nationality/residence of many of the original team.
| Obviously, different people will weight that above or below
| the UK address / USA incorporation.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168388
| wepple wrote:
| "Enable various forms of cybercrime" seems like a stretch.
|
| If flipper does, so does Nmap and metasploit and Linux and
| soldering irons.
| rpgraham84 wrote:
| They all do too to varying degrees. You can say "X enables
| cybercrime" and "Y enables more cybercrime than X" and both
| could be true for any given X and Y.
|
| For instance, someone buying a flipper is far more likely to
| do something illegal with it than someone buying a soldering
| iron. Both could be used only for legal purposes too, of
| course.
|
| For every news story you can find of someone doing a legal
| thing with a flipper I can find you at least 10 stories of
| someone doing something illegal with it. Same for metasploit,
| nmap is borderline, and soldering irons not so much.
| Keyframe wrote:
| too expensive to justify the purchase, otherwise cool and seems
| to be rather good build quality (at least from videos).
| turtlebits wrote:
| Looks slick - the backside of the device does look a little
| "busy" and distracting if I had to stare at it on the top of my
| monitor.
| euniceee3 wrote:
| Why 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?
| bradhe wrote:
| It's honestly not even that expensive considering all the
| functionality you get and the tech included (which is something
| HN should understand)
| hyperhopper wrote:
| The functionality is a small screen with a timer and a few
| API calls to set the timer for you sometimes. $189 for a
| timer is not a lot of functionality for more than 1% of the
| annual salary of a minimum wage worker. You can get a full
| android phone for that much which has 10000x the
| functionality.
| hyperhopper wrote:
| So because everyone wants to make profit, nobody can complain
| about any prices regardless of how insane they are? What kind
| of logic is that?
| Jayakumark wrote:
| Good but expensive, also does not solve for people behind or side
| of you.
| emmanueloga_ wrote:
| v2 should replace the matrix display with a Vegas Sphere [1]
| :-p
|
| --
|
| 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjg6-xT6rJg
| unixfg wrote:
| Why are the buttons are printed to be readable from the large
| sign side of the device and not the management side?
| foz wrote:
| yes this seems a strange choice. The operator is clearly
| controlling it from the side with the small screen.
| DHPersonal wrote:
| If I'm in an open office and can set my status clock on top of
| a monitor, then I don't need the manual controls because I will
| be changing it via the computer. If I'm not using a computer
| and setting the device down on my desk in a cubicle, then the
| primary screen is going to be turned towards me and I will need
| to use the manual controls. For that specific set of use cases,
| I see the logic behind the manual control label positions.
| chem83 wrote:
| Noticed that too -- makes no sense to me. Cool otherwise.
| sureIy wrote:
| Does 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.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| 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.
| qmarchi wrote:
| You can set your clipart to an end time rather than a count
| down. "Busy until 16:00"
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Clever! Thanks you just saved me 200 bucks :)
| echoangle wrote:
| At this price, you can get a second Monitor facing outward
| and display how long you'll be busy on that. In fact, you can
| get 2 monitors and another computer and have some change
| left. This is a cool product, especially design-wise, but
| there are much cheaper solution for this very small problem.
| felideon wrote:
| Good point. I finally know what to do with the old iPads my
| kids don't use anymore.
| michaelmior wrote:
| You can also have this update your status on Slack or whatever
| other relevant platforms support such updates.
| sureIy wrote:
| If you're frequently on call I guess it's a cool product, but
| then again nothing a red ON AIR light can't do for a fraction
| of the price.
| dailykoder wrote:
| For some people, maybe. For most people not.
|
| To me it looks like a very slick, hacker gadget built from a
| very enthusiastic person. Good finish and highly over-
| engineered. For me, as a user, it'd be too expensive, but my
| hacker soul could imagine building something like that too.
|
| Nice product, but at that price point probably not for a big
| audience
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| I recall seeing little USB lights on Amazon that accomplished
| the same thing for $30. Turn red when your calendar/webcam is
| active, green when free. Of course, I would be suspicious of
| the software integration privacy, but different problem.
| owlglass wrote:
| The 'Status' in the product name has two meanings, with the
| second being the standing conveyed by being able to shell out
| $189 for a pomodoro timer.
| Eric_WVGG wrote:
| can't things just be fun
| hyperhopper wrote:
| Not for $189
| danpalmer wrote:
| That's one of many features listed on this page, and they say
| there's an API for it suggesting that many more features are
| possible. I wouldn't expect every feature to be for everyone.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| I 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.
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law
| firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their
| day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate
| as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into
| their job.
| turblety wrote:
| > likely to be wildly inaccurate
|
| My gut reaction and prejudiced against all lawyers is it's
| probably in the law firms interest that these are inaccurate.
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| For sure that seems the intention. Create an "audit trail"
| for billing while simultaneously making it so onerous that
| the employees have to fudge the numbers.
| hobs wrote:
| In my experience it just means a lawyer marks each hour via
| charging you 10 increments, and that in some cases some
| forms of comms are generally charged at a sub-hourly
| charge.
|
| In most cases working with a lawyer is a fixed fee or going
| to be on a retainer basis where the hours pile up
| regardless, not so much about tracking every moment for
| every person.
| joshvm wrote:
| This is how Swiss medical appointments are billed. I forget
| exactly how granular, but it's pretty small - 5-10 minutes.
| As a result, you tend to be quite efficient when going to the
| GP, because it's a few Francs a minute
|
| If I retain a lawyer at $1k an hour, you bet I want 5 minute
| billing.
| mattkrause wrote:
| Sadly for you, I think 6 minute increments (i.e., 0.1 of an
| hour) might be more common.
| SoftTalker wrote:
| If your pay depends on it, you magically become very good at
| it.
|
| I hate time tracking and time sheets and all of that but at
| any job I had where I would not get paid without it, it got
| done.
| ac_15 wrote:
| Add an alarm to play VERY LOUD if the button is not pressed in
| a 5-7 minute window to keep you working. If you fail to do so
| the entire office/house has to hear your alarm going off
| felideon wrote:
| Make it a fidget toy and you're onto something.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| A big satisfying button to push is welcome.
| wepple wrote:
| I've got this, just some simple JS that flashes bgcolor when
| the time is up, and I click to extend. I just keep a tiny thin
| browser on my laptop display
|
| I set it to 15 minutes or it's too frequent.
|
| I've considered a hardware device (and have tried some) but I
| like to also track time in meetings, so I'd be lugging it
| around with me.
| leetbulb wrote:
| Oh my, this is something I've been wanting to create. Something
| simple like an illuminated on-air sign outside my office door.
| This is awesome, and awesomely over-engineered.
| burnte wrote:
| Check out BlyncLights from Embrava. Much simpler and cheaper.
| I've installed them in a few companies and have one at home so
| my wife knows when I'm in a meeting or free.
| wannacboatmovie wrote:
| Very Les Nessman-ish.
|
| Whenever I see someone with a busy light in the office, I view it
| as an over-the-top, attention-grabbing, awkward human interaction
| and an explicit invitation to bother him or her.
|
| It's "don't make me tap the sign" in electronic form.
| jacknews wrote:
| I hit the 'BUY' button while thinking 'how much is this worth, or
| would people be willing to pay' and settled on about $60-80.
|
| I'm obviously a cheapskate.
|
| Sure, some people will buy it even it was $2000, but I think most
| people will be put off by the ~$200 price.
| encom wrote:
| So this is a cloud connected LED sign that tells people to ~~fuck
| off~~ leave me alone. For 189 USD. This is the most Hacker News
| thing I've seen in 2024.
| wannacboatmovie wrote:
| In a way it's the perfect product if your target market is
| those responsible for the atrocities of the modern web: like
| why I need a cloud-connected smartphone app that requests full
| permissions to set up a $10 camera.
|
| Juicero, where are you?
| lwhsiao wrote:
| I can't seem to tell: is this run off a battery? If so, any specs
| on the battery? Or is it powered via cable?
| frereubu wrote:
| This reminds me of my first job in London looking after the
| network of a recruitment agency. The consultants got headsets for
| the first time and one got so annoyed about being interrupted
| when on a call - because you couldn't tell when people were
| wearing headsets the whole time - that she taped a big bit of
| card to the top of her headset saying "ON A CALL" that she could
| flip up and down depending on whether she was speaking to
| someone.
| vel0city wrote:
| Our old Plantronics phone headsets had a TRS jack which would
| connect to an optional status light. It would light up when the
| headset was on a call.
|
| https://www.headsetsdirect.com/product/poly-busy-light-strai...
| frereubu wrote:
| Man, Plantronics. That brings back some memories!
| RockRobotRock wrote:
| My old company used these more recently:
| https://busylight.com/
| kstrauser wrote:
| 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 headphones
| I wore, and tapped me on the shoulder, laughing. "Hah, look
| what someone taped to your head!"
|
| We both learned something about the limits of my patience that
| day.
| egeozcan wrote:
| There's always that person. The only solution is renting your
| own office (not even home office unless one lives alone).
| semi-extrinsic wrote:
| I can remember people using various USB "busy lights" since way
| back in the Skype for Business days. And one of our super old
| offices has an 80s style wired green/yellow/red light indicator
| outside of the door, that presumably used to connect to a
| switch on the desk.
| tristor wrote:
| > And one of our super old offices has an 80s style wired
| green/yellow/red light indicator outside of the door, that
| presumably used to connect to a switch on the desk.
|
| These light trees used to be (and probably still are in some
| places) used for the purpose of incident management when in
| operations centers like NOCs or similar. It is tied to
| internal status and incident management systems.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| That may be but they originated in manufacturing, long
| before NOCs were a thing.
| ndndjdjdn wrote:
| Easy fix. Call the person when tbey are on a call. If engaged
| tbey will be engaged. Then move that person to a house in the
| suburbs where their kids bappen to also live.
| weinzierl wrote:
| Where does it draw power from? Does it have to be permanently
| connected or does it have a battery?
|
| I have a lilygo T-Display (which costs less than a 10th of the
| Busy Status Bar), but I intended to use it untethered and freely
| movable on the desk. Sadly the battery life is so bad that I
| basically have to leave it plugged in all the time.
| diggan wrote:
| > Where does it draw power from? Does it have to be permanently
| connected or does it have a battery?
|
| Since it's not mentioned in text, extrapolating from the photos
| (sometimes it's connected with a cable, sometimes not) I'd have
| to assume it has a battery.
| noitpmeder wrote:
| Standard these days is chargeable, have to imagine that is
| the case here.
| weinzierl wrote:
| The natural follow up would be: How often do I have to plug
| it in? If I have to charge it daily it is probably too much
| of a hassle and I'll have to have it plugged-in all the time.
| echoangle wrote:
| On the image which shows the back screen, you can also see a
| battery icon in the lower right, so that's a very safe bet.
| slightwinder wrote:
| This looks retro-sleek. Really cool design.
|
| Does this work without cloud-connection? Does it work with the
| Flipper Zero? Considering it's from the same company, I would
| think there is some synergy available. And it seems to lack a
| speaker. For some reason, I would love to play radio on it, not
| sure why..
|
| EDIT Ok, found the speaker. Nice.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| i thought someone had finally productized a clock i built for
| myself a long time ago, which, instead of showing you the time of
| day, counts down to your next meeting
|
| https://github.com/jareklupinski/count-down
|
| google and apple dont make it easy...
| jeanlucas wrote:
| Since 2014 I dream about a product very very similar to this!
| Happy to see it built!!
| imglorp wrote:
| All these sad people working in offices that need to defend their
| focus. I will never do that again.
| timcobb wrote:
| The price of interacting with people in person
| MOARDONGZPLZ wrote:
| I downvoted this because it is really pejorative to call people
| sad in this way for doing their jobs. Though I do agree that it
| stinks sometimes to be focused and have people walk by and
| cause context shifts.
|
| Regarding the original topic, I mostly work from home and even
| there like pomodoro timers because they help me focus. Set it
| for 25 minutes and focus until the time is up, take 5, then get
| back to it. Works great for me!
| tevon wrote:
| I'm planning to use this at home to defend my focus from
| myself! That idea definitely goes both ways.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| Some people actually like being in an office.
|
| I wouldn't mind working hybrid and going to an office 2-3
| days/week as long as the commute was under 20 minutes.
| jollyllama wrote:
| I struggle to imagine the office where this is respected.
| simple10 wrote:
| This is incredibly similar to a personal project I've been
| prototyping. I love that Flipper brought it to market and will
| buy one. A fully open source & open hardware timer like this
| would be awesome. Cheaper DIY kit with 3d printable case. Does
| anyone know if one exists?
| blutack wrote:
| The Ulanzi TC001 might fit the ticket, it's not open source but
| it's an ESP32 and a bunch of addressable LEDs you can flash
| through the USB port.
|
| There's an ecosystem of open source firmware for it already.
| schnable wrote:
| People be so busy they need to buy a hacker-friendly device and
| build bespoke integrations with it.
| nixosbestos wrote:
| Truly, it's so hard for me to not see this as just dressed-up
| techie-flavored consumerism. If you can't look at your phone to
| run a timer without getting distracted, I think there's a
| different problem to solve.
|
| (reminder that Android makes it trivial to not show
| notifications on the lock screen, or even in the top bar. I see
| notifications _only_ when I want to.)
| Antipode wrote:
| This is primarily to inform other people in the same building
| as you.
| drdaeman wrote:
| Feels like a problem in search for a solution to me. Although
| I haven't worked in an office for a while now, so it could be
| that I'm not understanding the importance in such setting (or
| whatever is this device's target use environment) that can't
| be replaced with a sticky note.
| kajecounterhack wrote:
| Geez the creator obviously doesn't think this is a
| necessity. It's just introducing a little whimsy and fun.
| Nobody cares if you don't want to buy or use it.
| cle wrote:
| I don't work in an office anymore either, but when I did
| (years ago), I would get constantly interrupted by people
| walking up to my desk and talking to me. I like talking to
| people but I also need uninterrupted focus time.
|
| I made something similar with a blink USB light:
| https://blink1.thingm.com/ . I had a little sign that said
| "when it's red, I'm busy". And a keyboard shortcut to
| toggle it from red to green (it just ran a little bash
| script that invoked the blink CLI). It was duct-taped to my
| monitor so you could see it from far away.
|
| It worked very well to prevent interruptions from other
| people walking up to my desk and chatting with me.
| allenu wrote:
| I had the same issue when I was in an office and we were
| getting close to a deadline, so everyone was constantly
| chatting about this and that to unblock themselves. It's
| understandable when the rhythm of the office gets to that
| point that people want answers now, but it would get to
| ridiculous levels where you couldn't focus for 10 minutes
| before somebody else came by with a question.
|
| I never got to the point of having a USB light as a
| semaphore or anything like that, but I really wanted to
| find and hack a toy traffic light that would indicate if
| it was a good time to interrupt me or not. So yeah, it
| was a very real problem.
| nicbou wrote:
| > techie-flavored consumerism
|
| I didn't dare comment because it would be against the HN
| guidelines, but I fully agree. Once the novelty wears off it
| will turn into electronic waste.
| QuinnyPig wrote:
| Finally I can put my colleague on Verbal Probation.
| thenoblesunfish wrote:
| Messing with this thing sure seems like a great way to stay
| focused.
| secondcoming wrote:
| Where has the practice of putting the $ behind the value come
| from? I see it happening to PS too. I'm irrationally annoyed by
| this.
| drchaos wrote:
| It's standard for Euro amounts and before that for many (most?)
| European currencies.
| swores wrote:
| The majority of Eurozone countries do put the numbers before
| the EUR, but it's not standard across the continent, each
| country has their own standard and some of them do have the
| euro sign first.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Writte.
| ..
|
| (To save a click: Netherlands plus Dutch-speaking half of
| Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, and
| Turkey are the Eurozone countries which write EUR1 - which is
| also the official way to write it in English. Edit: oops,
| Turkey should be with England in that it's not a Eurozone
| country, they have their own Turkish lira, but in their
| language Euro amounts should be written EUR10, even though
| lira amounts are written 10TL.)
| blutack wrote:
| If you're looking for something with an addressable LED matrix in
| a clock style form factor, the Ulanzi TC001 [0] for ~$50 is worth
| having a look at.
|
| Doesn't quite have the same aesthetic but inside it's just an
| ESP32 (flashed via the USB-C port) and there's various mature
| open source firmware replacements. I use awtrix[1] on mine and
| it's very easy to tie in HomeAssistant for doorbell notifications
| and that sort of thing. I did also knock up a Pomodoro app for
| it.
|
| 0: https://www.ulanzi.com/products/ulanzi-pixel-smart-
| clock-288...
|
| 1: https://github.com/Blueforcer/awtrix3
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| I was going to say that $200 seemed awfully expensive for a
| programmable kitchen timer.
|
| I've had a project idea for a while that would require a bit
| more juice. In short, I want to make a music practice timer for
| ADHD kids that avoid actually playing music during practice
| time. I want it to be beefy enough to run some simple ML for
| detecting instruments being played, and I only want the timer
| to count down while the instruments are playing. I picture it
| looking a lot like the clock above, but with something like a
| Raspberry Pi jammed inside so it's got enough power to reliably
| detect "violin."
|
| Any ideas on hardware for that?
| r2_pilot wrote:
| "Identifying Different Musical Instrument Sounds Using
| Fourier Analysis in LabVIEW" Rather than "ML" du jour, I
| would say that a fast Fourier transform would get you
| sufficient data to determine if practicing or talking or
| silence.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| Definitely valid callout. I was also looking for an excuse
| to play with audio ML, but you're totally right that just
| examining a Fourier series could very likely do a great job
| of determining whether a given type of instrument is being
| played.
| bobnamob wrote:
| The adversarial child would be playing recordings into the
| timer within minutes no?
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| I'm assuming the child is question is not so much
| adversarial so much as ADHD. They'll be actively looking to
| divert their attention to more stimulating activities than
| playing an instrument but not attempting to cheat the
| system. And I'm assuming a parent is present but not
| necessarily in full control of the child. Or it could work
| equally well for an adult in a similar situation.
| blutack wrote:
| The ESP32S(1?) that's inside is fairly powerful as embedded
| mcus go but that said...
|
| If you need grunt and you don't specifically want the
| aesthetic of an led matrix panel you'd probably be better off
| with an old phone or tablet based thing.
|
| The TC001 afaik doesn't have any mics inside anyway.
| purpleidea wrote:
| Neat! Can't tell if it has a speaker at the back or not. Would
| like to play sounds or alarms...
|
| I'd love to attach this to a PoE to USB-C ethernet adapter to
| talk to it over API via hardwired. Still looking for something
| like that. The flipper busy bar seems to at least have some
| connectivity over USB.
| wildekek wrote:
| It has a small piezo buzzer, and you can use it to play RTTTL
| sounds. https://blueforcer.github.io/awtrix3/#/sounds
|
| I have to warn that it sounds like hot garbage though. The
| neat thing with ESP32 devices is that you can make it sound
| okay using its built in 8-bit DACs, or great using I2S.
|
| Speaking of hardware hacking; you can also get POE/LAN
| adaptors for the ESP32, if you have free hardware pins left
| for it.
| blutack wrote:
| +1 for the hot garbage piezo, but as OP says the ESP32 has
| a lot of fun hacking potential and there's plenty of space
| in the case especially if you remove the battery.
| dr_kiszonka wrote:
| Neat! This is very close to what I want. I am looking for a
| very affordable device like this to affix to my home office
| doors. I would like it to be programmable allowing me to set
| the status to Don't Enter when I am having a Zoom call, etc.
| blutack wrote:
| Very simple if you flash it with awtrix, it has a neat JSON
| API.
| password4321 wrote:
| This 16x32 RGB LED panel (6.75"x2.75", USB powered, Bluetooth
| programmable) was $15 for a while, now $26:
| https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP5P7RY7
|
| Programming it with your own code is still a mess, see "Panel
| Communication": https://github.com/auc0le/JT-Edit
| nine_k wrote:
| Could be even cheaper as a string of addressable LEDs + some
| arduino board.
|
| But quite some people are happy to pay the extra $174 for not
| needing to hack together software, a housing, physical
| controls, etc.
| astrostl wrote:
| Yes, exactly, thank you! I have a Tidbyt that I enjoy but it's
| pricy and has a subscription local API. I thought the thing in
| the OP might be a discount smart home alternative and was
| hoping to find exactly this kind of alternative recommendation
| in the comments.
| rkachowski wrote:
| ahh that's incredible. I've attempted similar projects with
| various devices over time. this looks cool!
| m4r71n wrote:
| This looks great! I've considered building a simple device with
| an LED matrix that looks similar to this, but could never
| figure out what gives the LEDs the muted look. All of the
| devices mentioned here (Tidbyt Gen2, Lamarca, Ulanzi, even the
| busy.bar) have it. Is the back-pannel just an LED matrix with a
| custom acrylic in front of it? How do they ensure the light
| from individual LEDs doesn't bleed into its neighbor?
| egeozcan wrote:
| > custom acrylic
|
| While I'm not an expert, my own experimentation suggests this
| is correct
| blutack wrote:
| I wouldn't swear to it but from mine it looks like there's a
| grid of light guides between the led PCB and the front screen
| to prevent any cross bleed. The front screen is translucent
| but not transparent (think heavy tinted window) acrylic which
| gives it the muted look.
|
| It's pretty good hardware wise, it would be hard to knock up
| DIY for $50 even just in BOM.
|
| Edit: teardown in German https://youtu.be/-Dn3A5V8ZPo @ 04:30
| jdoss wrote:
| This looks exactly what I have been looking for to put outside
| of my home office to keep my family from interrupting me during
| work meetings. Thanks for sharing it!
| import wrote:
| I have 2 of them and love them, blueforcer firmware supports
| home assistant and I can mix it with automations
| blutack wrote:
| As I'm too late to edit - if you use it in a setting where it's
| always powered, you might want to consider removing the battery
| as a safety measure. It's a fairly simple hardware hack,
| various YouTube videos and blogs on the subject.
| VoxPelli wrote:
| Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is
| actually their device?
|
| It's not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/, neither on
| https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram?
|
| They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their
| name before
| kretaceous wrote:
| Check the footer.
| jstanley wrote:
| That doesn't prove anything.
| blensor wrote:
| And interestingly none of the socials I could find are
| mentioning it.
|
| I am not saying it is a scam it's just very strange that
| all connections between busy.bar and flipper devices are
| one way. One would expect some two way mentions
| marliechiller wrote:
| It literally says: "Flipper Devices Designed by Flipper
| Devices Inc. (c) 2024. All rights reserved."
| ThrowawayTestr wrote:
| Anyone can put that there
| swores wrote:
| Every scam website ever made that pretends to be part of
| a known business copies that business's footer text, it's
| not remotely relevant in trying to judge whether a
| website is telling the truth or not about who owns it.
|
| (And in case anyone reads my comment without seeing that
| the founder of Flipper already commented confirming this
| is theirs, not a scam: that's the case.)
| mikestew wrote:
| Yeah, and those "PayPal" emails telling me to enter my
| creds _must_ be legit because they say "PayPal (c) 2024"
| at the bottom, with a link to paypal.com.
| floam wrote:
| Actually fake ones will inevitably show "(c)" because
| they couldn't get authorization for the copyright key. If
| you zoom in you can see the gaps in the circle betraying
| the deception.
|
| To be extra cautious, select it to make sure it's real
| text and not a screenshot of a real copyright notice -
| this is a common workaround. There is also one known
| proof of concept exploit using false glyphs in web fonts
| - this is why many security researchers disable the
| loading of fonts.
|
| Subscribe to my Practical Cybersecurity newsletter
| assusdan wrote:
| It is mentioned at their "We're hiring" page
| https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2
|
| "We are looking for a professional multidisciplinary designer
| to join our Busy Status Bar team and help bring the product to
| Kickstarter, generating excitement among future users."
| emilkaiumov wrote:
| It is (but in russian)
|
| Pavel Zhovner (a lead of flipper devices) wrote about Busy
| status bar 3 months ago in his Telegram channel
| (https://t.me/zhovner_hub/2073).
|
| At https://flipperzero.one/ you can find habr.com blog link.
| The first post in Flipper blog was made by Zhovner
| https://habr.com/ru/users/zhovner/ (who has a link to telegram
| channel zhovner_hub).
| dullcrisp wrote:
| > Glavnaia ideia v tom, chtoby skazat' liudiam "ot'ebites' na
| 15 minut" eshche do togo kak vas otvlekli.
|
| This explanation is much more forthright.
| gk1 wrote:
| For the lazy:
|
| "The main idea is to tell people to 'F---- off for 15
| minutes' before they get to interrupt you."
| zhovner wrote:
| Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our
| product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it
| secret.
|
| Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home
| protocol and will slightly change the product concept.
| Y_Y wrote:
| Hi Pavel Zhovner. I'm afraid you're not doing a very good job
| of keeping it secret.
|
| What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and
| some assembly required?
| diggan wrote:
| > What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag
| and some assembly required?
|
| Or even better, a version that ships with everything
| besides "the brain" and allows us to use our Flipper Zero
| as the brain :) Looking at the old blog articles about the
| project, it seems it got started with using Flipper Zero as
| the brain, so maybe it's not that far-fetched.
| dr_kiszonka wrote:
| It looks gorgeous, especially the hardware. I think the
| typeface on the hardware and the retro busy text could be
| further refined, but it is very very cool overall.
| dr_kiszonka wrote:
| (Looking at the renders, there are at least four different
| fonts on the device. It would probably look better if you
| used fewer.)
| poincaredisk wrote:
| Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting
| a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I
| confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who
| you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have
| cases looks this every other week in my dayjob.
|
| In this case I believe the post is legit.
| creatonez wrote:
| It might ring better for the cypherpunks here that zhovner
| has verified their HN account ownership with their keybase
| GPG key, which can only be done by editing an account's
| profile description to include a specific signature (or by
| defacing HN / breaching the account). And the same key is
| also used to prove ownership of their Github account and
| website.
| IshKebab wrote:
| More important note to people reading this: use your brain.
| Is it likely that a scammer will create an _extremely_
| professional website and product, and then their scam is
| that ride the coat tails of another brand _and try to keep
| that scam up with Hacker News comments_?
|
| (I think lots of HN people have issues with reality so just
| in case the answer is: absolutely not.)
| fzeroracer wrote:
| Yes, actually. Well, everything except the last point. If
| you're unfamiliar with UFO 50, it's a recent collection
| of games inspired by 80s-esque computer game design. The
| reason why I bring this up is because there's a website
| (ufo50.net) which is actually fake and completely
| unrelated to the actual ufo50 site (50games.fun) which is
| designed to be SEO-bait so that it can absorb traffic
| from search engines.
| dgacmu wrote:
| Or he's been playing the long game and fake-submitted the
| Show HN post for flipper zero four years ago just to be
| ready for this day. ;-)
|
| (or the account was compromised, of course)
| parhamn wrote:
| Put a CO2 + temp/humidity sensor in there and it's a no-
| brainer. The sensors could be nice to hack on too.
| wingworks wrote:
| Also add PM (Particulate Matter) and VOC.
| mightysashiman wrote:
| hell yes!
| mxfh wrote:
| with matter support that could just well integrate with the
| rest of home automation. There is a lack of devices with
| big nice dials for that.
|
| +1 CO2/PM2.5
| dylan604 wrote:
| so now we're talking a $500 device? they're already asking
| ~$200 for a feature stop watch
| jll29 wrote:
| It's a beautiful site and product.
|
| However, the original inventor of the Pomodoro technique
| explicitly advocates a "low tech" approach - a mechanical
| kitchen timer, because he argued that the tactile and
| auditory elements (i.e., the turning moves and ticking
| sounds) get associated with the elements of the techniques
| in the human brain.
|
| It would be interesting to evaluate both variants of the
| approach in a scientific experiment.
|
| https://www.amazon.com/-/en/38-1005/dp/B00335P518 - about
| EUR7 or $13, depending on your geography
| vineyardmike wrote:
| This product (1) is not just for Pomodoro and (2) has
| nice tactile hardware.
|
| I think hardware that can "passively" be more useful with
| sensors and similar are easy wins. No reason it has to
| disrupt a timer, it just hides sensors you'd want within
| a device that would already be sitting out in your
| home/office.
| wongarsu wrote:
| And double the price?
|
| Temp/humidity is simple enough, but reasonably priced CO2
| sensors with any accuracy are an issue
| adtac wrote:
| Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this
| is actually their CEO? :)
| diggan wrote:
| No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to
| their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The
| future is here! :)
| roland35 wrote:
| And... How do we know the key base profile is correct?
| diggan wrote:
| Here is how Keybase works:
| https://book.keybase.io/docs/server
|
| Then take a look at the HN profile, which leads you to
| the Keybase profile.
| bloopernova wrote:
| I really wish keybase had taken off. I should have
| realized it was going to fail once they started adding
| the cryptocurrency wallet.
| diggan wrote:
| Keyoxide seems OK as an alternative: https://keyoxide.org
| /aspe:keyoxide.org:Q6B7ZBQITV7IE2RG4EMVK...
|
| Doesn't have any of the social "features".
| m463 wrote:
| unrelated: how come you can't buy your device on amazon?
| therein wrote:
| Looks nice. We should have known from the way it looks that
| it is either you guys or Teenage Engineering.
| bloopernova wrote:
| I wonder how many people bought this item without checking that
| it's legitimate?
| barrenko wrote:
| Caveat empor my dude.
| nmstoker wrote:
| emptor :)
| edm0nd wrote:
| Caveat emperor
| diggan wrote:
| I'm 97% sure 0 people bought this thing, seeing as it isn't
| available to buy yet.
| tjohns wrote:
| Zero, because there's no checkout page yet. Just a mailing
| list for status updates.
| bloopernova wrote:
| That _would_ put a crimp in any purchase plans, to be sure.
| gorgoiler wrote:
| Flipper Zero's UK jobs page is currently advertising for a
| designer to work on the Busy Bar:
|
| https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2
|
| ...linked at the bottom of https://flipperzero.one/
| danjl wrote:
| Back when I worked in an office and had to do deep thinking
| without interruptions, I'd string up a bit of yellow police-like
| tape that I stole from the SGI offices that were closed during
| Shoreline concerts that said "SILICON GRAPHICS". Worked
| perfectly.
| asoneth wrote:
| I wouldn't have thought this kind of thing would be useful, but
| after trying a few pomodoro timers I ended up with one (TimeTimer
| Plus) that is so large that it had the unanticipated benefit of
| notifying others how long I'll be busy.
|
| However, I will say it depends a great deal on your
| coworkers/family as to whether they _care_ that you 're busy when
| they want to ask you something.
| jayd16 wrote:
| Hmm shouldn't the button labels be reversed if you're supposed to
| face it away from you?
| INTPenis wrote:
| They need to make a miniature version that I can attach to my
| headphones because that is my busy indicator.
|
| If I'm at work and need to focus, noise cancelling headphones are
| a must. If they're off then I'm not busy.
| tbeseda wrote:
| Rad device! Not here to gripe about the actual price - and I
| realize it's counter-intuitive since we say "one hundred dollars"
| out loud - but in the US, the dollar sign goes before the amount:
| $189 not 189$
| jeffbee wrote:
| Finally, the productivity technique named after a $1 clockwork
| timer gets the fiddly software-and-cloud-based solution it
| deserves.
| anfractuosity wrote:
| Out of interest is there anything similar to the Ulanzi TC001 but
| with a slightly higher resolution.
| karolist wrote:
| Looks like lametric alternative?
| sgwizdak wrote:
| The mode where it sits on a monitor and displays a status ("on
| call") is very interesting. I think that could be simplified into
| a product unto itself -- but it would need to priced at "office
| toy" level -- so around $20-$40 USD.
| 404mm wrote:
| I was gonna seriously consider it for $89. But then I noticed
| it's $189. Hard pass. It's a shame because it's a neat idea.
| I'd be ok even with just some core functionality
| riiii wrote:
| Interesting toy, but in my world none of my friends are going to
| pay $189 for that. Even when the the dollar sign is on the wrong
| side.
| tivert wrote:
| It looks _very_ neat, and I love all the physical controls, but
| it seems like kind of a device from another time where everyone
| worked in-person all the time. I work a hybrid schedule, with a
| mostly distributed team, and hotdesk /hotel when I'm in the
| office, so I don't have the luxury of a physical device to
| indicate my status, nor much use for one.
|
| That said, I _really_ want something designed like this that I
| can use.
| rufugee wrote:
| Nice!
|
| For a home-rolled solution, I use a GE CYNC ST19 Edison Style
| bulb in a socket right outside my office door. I have it
| configured through Home Assistant (https://www.home-
| assistant.io/), and then use Hammerspoon
| (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) on my macbook to make an API call
| to Home Assistant when the camera state changes.
|
| If my camera turns on/off, so does the light bulb. Works really
| well for letting my family know I'm busy in meetings.
| tamimio wrote:
| A bit dystopian turning people into a taxi-like system where you
| need an indicator to tell if they are vacant or not.
|
| Regardless, I'm struggling to know the audience here. Is it an
| employee in the office? If that's the case, it won't solve any
| problem because most of the disturbances happen from your boss
| either calling about something or asking you to join another
| useless meeting. Your boss won't care about your status simply
| because they won't be collocated in the same office as you most
| of the time (not that they care about your online status anyway).
| For colleagues, after the first month or so, everyone will pretty
| much find the best way to approach others. If you still need a
| device for that, then there's a problem in communication that you
| need a persistent device all the time. At home, you won't need
| such a thing. So I don't know who will find it useful; it looks
| gimmicky. What's next, a hat that will turn a green light telling
| people you are approachable or in the chatting mode, and red when
| you are not?!
| refulgentis wrote:
| After reading the page, it seems clear it is akin to a
| recording studio busy signal, well-trodden territory predating
| computers, and marketed for video conferencing. Neither without
| target audience, nor a sigil of the fall of interhuman
| cooperation and communication :)
| ndndjdjdn wrote:
| You have not said what the market is. Recording studios have
| a solution. And probably don't use pomedero. And the reason
| for the indicator I assume is to stop people barging in and
| stop people saying silly stuff thinking their off air so it
| needs to be inside and outside the room.
|
| So who is this device for again?
| refulgentis wrote:
| > You have not said what the market is.
|
| Hmm, you sure? I checked OP, it says "marketed for video
| conferencing"
|
| > Recording studios have a solution.
|
| Okay.
|
| > And probably don't use pomedero.
|
| *pomodoro
|
| > And the reason for the indicator I assume is to stop
| people barging in and stop people saying silly stuff
| thinking their off air so it needs to be inside and outside
| the room.
|
| Okay.
|
| > So who is this device for again?
|
| Video conferencing, ex. the above scenario you laid out
|
| > I'm curious, I'm not just rushing through an attempt to
| correct something that doesn't need correction. How do they
| envision it in use?
|
| Here's a link to the site, it has marketing material re:
| this. https://busy.bar/
| ndndjdjdn wrote:
| For context, we are replying to a comment putting that
| marketing into question. Therefore the "RTFA" card is not
| in your deck to play. (I say with a tongue in cheek tone:
| no flamewar intended!)
|
| In particular GP said:
|
| > For colleagues, after the first month or so, everyone
| will pretty much find the best way to approach others. If
| you still need a device for that, then there's a problem
| in communication that you need a persistent device all
| the time.
|
| I think I agree. Back in 2003 my boss said "when my
| headset is on I am busy". He had to remind everyone a few
| times. But that worked.
| refulgentis wrote:
| Reductio ad absurdum: If its for recording studios, fine.
| If not, get off my lawn, its just reinventing having a
| conversation.
|
| It's telling that both obstinate refusals to not
| understand what its for end up on unrelated stories about
| bosses. Let's call it PHB derangement syndrome.
|
| It never seemed likely it was _that_ confusing, it 's
| pretty hard to have been alive from 2020-2024 and claim
| that there's never any reason for anyone to know anyone
| else is on a video call. I guess I'm lucky I can take out
| my Monday scaries via pointing out the obvious, it'd suck
| to be on the other side and have to pretend I'm stupid.
| supermatt wrote:
| I quite like the large format for a timer. I have some much lower
| tech alternative that works wonders for helping keep me focused
| on tasks: https://www.timetimer.com/
| wildekek wrote:
| Lots of features mentioned there, I wonder how many of those will
| be ready on launch day and what will be delivered later.
| graypegg wrote:
| I'm a sucker for metal things with greebling. The price seems
| pretty fair for how niche this is; I totally expected Teenage
| Engineering prices. (Also in the field of greebled single use
| devices with knobs and the mass of a blunt-force-weapon) Will
| totally pick one up for the hardware's skookumosity and
| hackability poetential alone!
| echoangle wrote:
| Do you mean metal as in the material? Where do you see that?
| graypegg wrote:
| It definitely looks to be made of a metal. To be fair, I'm
| just basing that off the texture and specular highlights in
| the photos. It's pretty similar looking to the iMac's case in
| one of their photos.
| echoangle wrote:
| I would actually bet it's plastic, having a hollow tube-
| like structure made from metal would be very wasteful
| because you would have to mill out the entire core (unless
| it's cast metal?). Also, the texture looks much coarser
| than the iMac, there are large ,,bumps" on the surface. If
| it's really a milled aluminum case, I would at least
| understand the price, but I would be very surprised. My bet
| would be a simple injection moulded ABS case.
| yapyap wrote:
| Cool but not $189 cool.
| danielohrlund wrote:
| take my money
| thih9 wrote:
| It's very pretty; but it's also a little sad - that there could
| be demand for a big red flashing IRL "busy" indicator.
|
| If I'm busy and if it happens so often that I can reliably buy a
| device like this, I would instead prefer to adjust my work
| environment to not be distracting, and to inform people that they
| should contact me at some other time.
|
| I guess this may not always be an option.
| blitzar wrote:
| > sad - that there could be demand for a big red flashing IRL
| "busy"
|
| Busy is the virture most people want to signal most of the
| time. Next time someone ask how things are tell people you are
| not busy, its elicits a similar response to telling people your
| distant uncle died.
| ndndjdjdn wrote:
| Running under capacity is considered a sin for humans.
| However it is fine for a server (good for burst
| performance!).
| blitzar wrote:
| Lying is also a sin and 90+% of the time when people say
| they are "busy" they are not.
| tofof wrote:
| The display is a resolution of 72x16, or 1152 px. I counted;
| there's a couple of frames as the first "busy" mention displays
| that the splashing animation lights the entire panel.
|
| For comparison, the Ulanzi TC001 mentioned throughout this thread
| is 32x8, for 256 pixels.
|
| I think if one was wanting to build something like this for
| themselves that just using a 7" ips display intended for rpi
| would work as well. With 1024x600 resolution you could draw the
| chunky pixels if you wanted that aesthetic, and those can be had
| for like $28.
| m4r71n wrote:
| Is the busy bar's 72x16 LED matrix for sale anywhere with the
| muted look that one could build something comparable?
| blitzar wrote:
| Don't make me tap the sign.
| ndndjdjdn wrote:
| In the monitor screenshot it occured to me that you need to
| choose back or front. But in most open offices you will probably
| need a 360 dispaly. A circle design that scrolls might work.
|
| Also pomedero breaks are also busy. Having a break is something.
| Being interupted during that break is no better than being
| interuppted during the work part.
| killjoywashere wrote:
| OMG, I love this. The one missing feature: a high quality camera.
| As soon as I saw the screen mount, I immediately thought of
| Continuity Camera, which is a great solution for people who want
| decent video without a full streamer rig.
| neilv wrote:
| With all the controls and lights to fiddle with, this _Busy Bar_
| hanging off a techbro monitor... is kinda like the _Busy Box_
| that was hanging off their crib.
|
| https://www.etsy.com/listing/1760749770/fisher-price-busy-bo...
| JaggerJo wrote:
| Really nice design!
|
| Would love to have one but.. can't find a use-case for it
| mxuribe wrote:
| Separate of the product itself...I have to compliment whoever
| designed the landing page! I'm not a UX/UI/page design expert,
| but here is what i experience:
|
| * the page loads quick - without overlays, distractions, etc. the
| page gets to the point, and fast
|
| * immediately i see a description of what the product is...this
| might sound funny, but tons of product sites lack this most basic
| thing!
|
| * In addition, the very brief video at the top shows a human hand
| operating the product...so i know even more about its functions,
| or at least how to interact with product
|
| * a call-to-action of "BUY" is present and impossible to miss,
| positioned right after/below the product intro/description
|
| * as i scroll down, the experience is NOT janky...its a smooth
| scroll down the page
|
| * scrolling down informs me more about the product, including its
| features, different angles of the physical product (to help
| denote the features), they even squeeze in that there are
| developer options - so i'm tipped off that its not only a
| consumer device, but that it can be integrated with other
| systems, expanded by devs, etc.!
|
| * they include more product photos in order to show how the
| product may appear and/or be used in real life
|
| * they even include photo and description of certain features -
| which serve almost as a very brief user guide, but again, i'm
| sure the intent is to show off the product's feature set
|
| There probably are other great things about this page that i have
| not noted here...But, again, kudos to the person/team who
| designed this! I see many teams that are really intelligent, and
| might have great products/service, but they don;'t include half
| the elements present here. Because while i don't have interest in
| this product, damn, this an extremely compelling experience for
| their product! Cheers and kudos to all involved!!!!!!!
| RowanH wrote:
| Echoing this, loved the product feature callout diagram.
| Immediately 'view source' to figure out how it was done.
| kristofferR wrote:
| This site is extremely broken by default, completely
| unreadable:
|
| https://imgur.com/a/9g1dGxp (default 100% zoom level)
|
| It is totally defective in 100% zoom, I need to manually zoom
| to 90% to make it be usable/as designed.
|
| It seems to activate cell phone mode for laptop screens.
|
| Edit: I don't get why people are downvoting this (-4 and
| counting). I enter the site and it is broken, until I change to
| a non-default zoom level. Valuable feedback IMO
| iamjackg wrote:
| The downvotes are probably because your comment was
| unnecessarily abrasive, saying things like "unreadable" and
| "abhorrent."
|
| The feedback is valuable, but the way it's expressed leaves
| something to be desired.
| kristofferR wrote:
| Fixed it, replaced abhorrent with another descriptor.
| inhumantsar wrote:
| the site worked fine on my android phone in vertical mode
| using Firefox
| runetech wrote:
| Agree completely - so much I just had to echo your observations
| ;-)
|
| I love the aesthetics and simplicity at display here. Very
| functional and just the right amount of information. Kudos to
| the Busy Status Bar team from here as well!!
| stevage wrote:
| One thing missing though is the why. It took me a while to
| realise this is intended for people in open plan offices to
| communicate when they are disturbable.
|
| Still it's interesting to me as a WFH person to potentially
| better delineate for myself focus mode.
| capex wrote:
| Agree, except the product price could be right on the buy
| button. Now the analytics won't tell you whether I clicked on
| the buy button with an intent to buy, or did I just want to
| know how much it is.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| This would take my $200 and just be another distraction of me
| trying to get $200 worth of value out of it.
|
| I have a "Back in..." analog clock sign on my door. It was a
| dollar.
| deivid wrote:
| Nice product, I built a similar (but less flexible) system for an
| "ON AIR" sign that I have in my home office, as both my wife and
| I WFH, it is nice to have a visual indicator when one of us joins
| a call.
|
| Software for Linux and Mac is here [0]. There's also an ESP32 for
| the sign, but that part is trivial (MQTT -> LED)
|
| [0]: https://github.com/davidventura/on-air
| kachapopopow wrote:
| Waiting room for someone playing doom on it.
| entrep wrote:
| > Use of the terms "Pomodoro(r)" must be explicitly authorized by
| us. [1]
|
| 1: https://www.pomodorotechnique.com/pomodoro-trademark-
| guideli...
| pedrogpimenta wrote:
| That battle has been lost. I've header about pomodoros for
| years and not once about a shitty copyright holder. It's
| generic now, thank you.
| entrep wrote:
| Interesting. Time to create that Pomodoro app I've always
| wanted to do.
| henry2023 wrote:
| https://media1.tenor.com/m/t2vQvNA_GlYAAAAC/fille-choque-sho...
| jll29 wrote:
| Interestingly, this "official" Pomodoro site doesn't offer a
| physical timing device on their shop page.
|
| It looks like the inventor of the technique is now based out of
| Dubai (allergic to taxes? The governments that you lean on to
| enforce your reigstered trademarks need to be funded somehow).
| tristor wrote:
| Clicking on this page tries to XSS to a domain hosted in Russia
| (looks like an object storage backend) which is blocked by
| NoScript.
| cheema33 wrote:
| I suffer from ADHD and the pomodoro timer part interests me.
| However, I am not sure if a pomodoro timer would help me. And
| $200 is an expensive gamble.
| treve wrote:
| Get a free timer and find out!
| dmitrygr wrote:
| An old android phone with no cell service can do the job and
| costs roughly $0 (plenty of people will happily give one or
| three away)
| risenshinetech wrote:
| Good call on being cautious here. Unfortunately, there isn't
| anything between this product and the most basic, basic, basic
| timer for you to test out if the pomodoro method would work for
| you.
| btbuildem wrote:
| This design has very strong "2020's TV series based in the Star
| Wars universe" aesthetic vibes... or is it just me?
|
| Super well done website, and the product itself looks very
| thoroughly polished.
| egeozcan wrote:
| I got a giant usb-controlled traffic light at my first job in
| Germany for a customer project. They just let me keep it after
| the project finished, which made me repurpose it as a busy light
| and it worked wonders except that one person who didn't get the
| hint.
|
| Not exactly this but close: https://www.cleware-
| shop.de/USB_Tischampel_360
| holyknight wrote:
| How can people just spam links of their projects and not get
| flamed and/or get their posts deleted?
| lofaszvanitt wrote:
| Looks good, but... but... well, it feels a bit like a
| prostitute's indicator made for the waiting males.
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