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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.





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


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.

You can also have this update your status on Slack or whatever other relevant platforms support such updates.

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.

can't things just be fun

Not for $189

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.

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.

You can set your clipart to an end time rather than a count down. "Busy until 16:00"

Clever! Thanks you just saved me 200 bucks :)

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.

Good point. I finally know what to do with the old iPads my kids don't use anymore.

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.



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