> That's kind of the opposite of the Hacker ethos

HN revolves around YComb and finding ideas that make great products. Someone has come up with a brilliant solution and someone else is saying they want to buy it. HN isn’t about “hacker” purity, it’s about thinking through cool ideas and maybe finding a startup along the way.

I don't have a 3D printer and I unfortunately don't have the time.

Always good to know

Getting the job done is the hacker ethos. Sometimes that means buying a solution instead of spending a bunch of time (and money) building it.

Not sure about this, I would call this manager ethos and outsourcing

that's a weird notion of hacker purity. did you write your own kernel and compiler and web browser, on your own CPU that you built from transistors you made in your parents garage? and then connected to an Internet of your own creation? or did you "outsource" some part of that process to others?

Nah.

Building your own, idk, mechanical keyboard? Hackerish thing to do, sure. But buying someone else's cool design is not against "the ethos", that's a silly thing to say. Supporting artisans in their craft is Good, actually, I don't see anything about this design which make it different that way.