Most of the stuff seems way overpriced

https://teenage.engineering/products/field-desk

Looks like a $100 desk for $1,600

This is the cost of doing business when you have to pay for engineering (and tooling + certification) on niche products. Nothing they do is really designed for mass market.

Uhuh. You can get a desk reasonably close to this for $80 at IKEA. I love TE, a lot, but that desk is just shamelessly milking the audience.

More power to them, they created an audience who wants to pay that, but you're not paying for engineering here.

Desks, drum machines, synthesizers, mixers are not really niche products. They take fairly common items, and create a version that appeals to hipsters but is not as useful as cheaper options. Example $2k for this little synth https://teenage.engineering/store/op-1-field which wouldn't appeal to most synthesizer enthusiasts. Its more like office desk toy.

I definitely wouldn't pay $1600 but I like the idea of an ultra-modular and configurable desk. I wonder if you could build something similar with 80-20 extrusions (and/or similar knock-off) and an Ikea desktop. There's a huge ecosystem of ways to integrate/extend these and you could do some cool things with them.

Wow, they even exclude it from their free shipping offer.

it's not a desk man, it's a field desk, a whole new category of product

This is the 10,000th time someone has posted TE products to HN and said they're overpriced. They make high-end luxury products for rich people, if you think it's too expensive then you're not the target audience. This is like saying a Lamborghini is too expensive because you can by a Toyota that does 90% of the same stuff for a fifth of the cost. Every one knows, that's the point.

I mean I get it, I would never buy anything from TE either, just like I can't afford a Lamborghini. But I can still look at it and go "Wow, that's really pretty."

Funny because I bought a pocket operator because it was the cheapest drum machine I could find. Glad they made the jump from Kia to Lamborghini.

Probably resentment because the original OP-1 was not crazily priced for its novelty and feature set. Once it got popular it rose from $800 to $1400 and the new OP-1 Field is $2000.

And the KO-II series is actually reasonably priced by their standards!

how do i pinch to zoom with a mouse?

Control + mouse scroll wheel works for me

mousewheel to zoom, left click to drag works for me on firefox windows

What is this soot thing, it's as if tumblr and pinterest had an art school baby.

Did you arrange that in the shape of an among us on purpose?