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tamimio ◴[] No.41840592[source]
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?!

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refulgentis ◴[] No.41840611[source]
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 :)
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ndndjdjdn ◴[] No.41841301[source]
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?

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1. ndndjdjdn ◴[] No.41845535[source]
People are conflating the problem space and this solution.

This doesn't let you do deep work! Probably the opposite, it is a gimmick that will attract a nerd mob to your desk to ooh over it.

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2. refulgentis ◴[] No.41850887[source]
You're trolling and that's not cool
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3. ndndjdjdn ◴[] No.41854733{3}[source]
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