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ericzawo 6 hours ago [-]
This is cool but it just promotes the Kinfolkification of the home. And they all look the same / nothing like how me or my colleagues's home setups look. This looks very...... youtube and #aesthetic. Which is fine and there's clearly a market for, but it should include ALL workspaces not just Creatives one which is shorthand for like "Cool guy Creators / streamers / people with Instagrams"
nickt 3 hours ago [-]
The should give a one year window and pop round on some random afternoon. Bet they’d look a bit more like a space where work gets done then.
NetOpWibby 57 minutes ago [-]
Which is exactly how my desk looks. I keep wanting to tidy it up but meh.
burnto 2 hours ago [-]
Love this idea
VTimofeenko 57 minutes ago [-]
> Kinfolkification
Pardon my ignorance, but what is this referring to?
Not one creator's workspace is a messy hoard? This is an idealic, oh crap we better clean up before the photographer arrives, fantasy.
darth_avocado 47 minutes ago [-]
I would love to have space like this. Then I realized that every single one of them has house plants, which would mostly not survive if it was me.
nxc18 13 minutes ago [-]
They’re pretty easy to keep, set a reminder to water once a week and that’s basically all you need to do. Maybe if you want to go crazy, test if the soil is dry first.
Nice!
And also, sorry if my comment came off as mean about the site. I don't think so at all...I also don't understand why your first comment on the post went dead.
There is something very interesting about looking at workspaces. As other commenters mentioned? Does your site delve into non-computer workspaces?
ryangilbert 3 hours ago [-]
not at all! was great feedback and something for me to consider honestly...
there were a handful of artists early on but it really did morph into tech-focused creators (designers, developers, founders, etc) mostly because the early audience and guests pulled it in that direction
thih9 5 hours ago [-]
Victor’s desk[1] was the first that I saw that had some honesty, showing a laptop on a stack of books. Thank you Victor.
I have a 50 bucks IKEA table with scrathed surface, a screen from 2008 and a chair for 10 bucks I bought from the last companies shut down.
And no, this is not fancy :-D :-D but it does the job :)
MSKJ 5 hours ago [-]
The main thing it having an environment that facilitates you and your creativity. If that works for you, than that works for you
klez 4 hours ago [-]
Or simply: that's what fits my home and what I can afford.
I work in a tiny room and the only place a desk fits is in the corner, so I have a small corner desk that fits there, with a ultra wide monitor, but I have to keep the laptop closed because I don't have space on the desk. Also a trackball because it's too cramped for a mouse.
paulorlando 50 minutes ago [-]
From the results I can see that I am somehow living as a radically messy desk creator. Even my books are not color coordinated or nicely arranged. I will try to do better.
aetherspawn 55 minutes ago [-]
And I have a daily argument with corporate who tell me “nobody uses Macs except you”
a1o 8 hours ago [-]
I am curious why so many people use Apple Monitors but with a regular stand instead of the VESA mount version so they could use a better support, the stand is clearly not being able to deliver the best position as people seem to use different things to rise them a little more.
Having been using different supports throughout the years, using the regular stand that come with monitors always felt like a considerable downgrade and the cost of a proper support that you attach to the desk, drill on it or drill on the wall, depending on the necessity of the space, is usually negligible.
shen 8 hours ago [-]
Because it looks better in these photos.
blobdole 5 hours ago [-]
These remind me of the various YouTube channels I have seen pop up over the last few years focusing on 3d printing and organization, usually of clean workshops or sterile computer desks.
They are usually very pretty and well edited, with impressively done voice overs. They are also usually about aesthetically organizing and displaying an exacting set of objects that can't be changed without breaking out the fulfillment.
I guess aspirational and satisfying to look at, but pretty useless in terms of actual working space organization. Should probably play "A Little to the Left" and get your pattern matching fix that way.
anentropic 6 hours ago [-]
TBH I feel like this is cringe
ryangilbert 3 hours ago [-]
why's that?
metalliqaz 3 hours ago [-]
it's all fake
ryangilbert 2 hours ago [-]
these are all real setups from real people working in tech
markus_zhang 8 hours ago [-]
Would love to see computer engineers or electrical engineers.
Wow, these made me feel worse about my own workplace. Jokes aside, these workspaces are likely staged beforehand in my opinion. Very interesting though however!
ryangilbert 7 hours ago [-]
Most of the guests do indeed stage them or tidy up before they submit their interview.
I will try to add some "messy reality" ones as well going forward!
graypegg 6 hours ago [-]
Maybe not "messy reality", honestly my desk is a mess right now and it would be a totally apt description... but I wouldn't want to be in a category called "messy reality"!
"Brutalist" maybe... I could convince myself of that being a positive trait. The unguided wires and bare deskpad-less desktop is a desk that's honest [0] about the materials making it up.
This does not spark joy. Why would I create a nice work environment just to prompt Claude all day long?
Fuck this fake life, I'm out
fastasucan 3 hours ago [-]
I dont get why people here are so livid that people like to have a tidy desk and/or tidy up before photographing their desk.
Many people also like to tidy up their home a bit before they receive guests or groom themselves before going out for the night. No reason to judge them.
ryangilbert 44 minutes ago [-]
haha yeah wild reaction to someone tidying up a bit to submit photos of a version of their setup, even if it isn't necessarily the day to day reality.
graypegg 7 hours ago [-]
I love the idea! But echoing some comments on here, oh man if the desk-owner takes the desk-photo, you get a lot of branded mugs with the logo facing towards the camera, books neatly stacked in a pile right in the middle of the desk, or (my personal favourite) the iPhone place purposefully upside down centred on the un-scratched cutting mat just downwind from the perpendicularly oriented speed-square/stencil. [0] You never know when you might need an edgeless speed-square at a moment's notice!
NOT A DIG AT THESE PEOPLE! The spaces look great! And clearly, they own all the things listed/shown, so there's nothing disingenuous. It's just a bit of a stretch to say it's their workspace... this is the collapsed superposition of their workspace once you measure it with a photo. They took the photo, sat down, realized the pile of books is now where there arm should be and then entropy takes the wheel.
The few that don't have that manicured aesthetic, I love [1]. The books have been opened, the sticky notes are actually used, pens are in the broken mug, and fun knick-knacks are fully deployed to every flat surface EXCEPT the one you have to put your arms on. Tessa dedicated like 15 minutes to these photos then moved on with her day and got shit done. I get the same feeling from that video of Linus Torvald's "zombie shuffling desk". [2] If he spent, like 3 hours organizing and manicuring this, it could fit in on this site just fine, but he probably has other stuff to do.
This whole comment reads as a dig against these people. They like to have it tidy/or they like to tidy up before photographing their desk.
metalliqaz 3 hours ago [-]
May as well be Mtv Cribs. It's full of impressive looking spaces that are obviously not actually used as they are presented.
ryangilbert 3 hours ago [-]
Quote on the bottom of the homepage is a reader saying it's the new MTV Cribs ;)
BorisMelnik 7 hours ago [-]
love it! Id love it if you made it like a TinderCard feature
ryangilbert 7 hours ago [-]
Have kicked this idea around!
I should try to add this soon.
mmooss 8 hours ago [-]
Very interesting, thank you. For designers and similar creatives, I'm surprised that there isn't more artwork. Also, the workspaces - the desks and especially the monitor screen area - are much smaller than I expected.
ryangilbert 8 hours ago [-]
A lot of designers are definitely running similar setups right now!
mmooss 3 hours ago [-]
Yes, indeed! The similarity across place and profession is hard to believe. Is there some other explanation other than all these people - many professional designers - making the same design choices? Maybe something to do with how they were chosen or what questions were asked or who responded?
RIMR 8 hours ago [-]
Oh please, what is with all of these pristine "engineer" workspaces? Every high-powered engineer I know lives in a pile of wires, boards, and monitors that evolves like a living organism.
skippyfish 8 hours ago [-]
I find it nuts that "creators" is basically synonymous with "streamers". To add insult to injury, these workspaces appear to be overwhelmingly staged.
There's nothing interesting to me about a workplace with a clinically-tidy desk and a LED ring light. I want to see metalsmiths, woodworkers, electrical engineers, etc. Even software occupations often have interesting workspace setups dictated by the nature of the job - for example, many CAD and music / video production setups are eclectic - but these ain't it.
ryangilbert 8 hours ago [-]
The majority of these creators are actually designers in tech and not streamers at all.
I do agree that I should attempt to share more of the "messy reality" alongside the more staged photos, though.
Faaak 6 hours ago [-]
Yeah, id like to see their day-to-day workshops, not the cleans after versions.
Mine is a real mess (partly because of ADHD, but not only)
browningstreet 7 hours ago [-]
As a creator, you could make and stream that content.
j45 8 hours ago [-]
I totally see what you're saying.
Also noticing a lot more creators on youtube who are metalsmiths, woodworkers, electrical engineers.
Many seem to only have started the past few years, and the rest may have not been presented to me by the algorithm because the algorithm cared to keep me watching and not if I might have diverse interests.
One of the other realities is more and more people are distributed, and having communication be clearer (sound, light, video) is increasingly becoming more common in any field.
The thing that stands out to me about some of these designs is they look great, but not enough show the functionality that needed to be designed as well (organization, storage, etc).
ryangilbert 8 hours ago [-]
Hi HN!
I originally launched Workspaces on April 5, 2020 when world shifted to remote work.
The original idea was simple... interview one person a week, ask them about their setup, publish the photos and gear list.
It's now been 6+ years and 500+ interviews.
Each feature includes workspace photography, a short bio, a full gear list with links, and four interview questions. New issues go out every Saturday morning.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is this referring to?
https://theselby.com/
https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/
https://www.worldofinteriors.com/
https://www.instagram.com/apartamentomagazine
https://workspaces.xyz/p/70-alex-wilhelm https://workspaces.xyz/p/296-alex-nicolai https://workspaces.xyz/p/337-jason-levin
Why are these not on the homepage...
There is something very interesting about looking at workspaces. As other commenters mentioned? Does your site delve into non-computer workspaces?
there were a handful of artists early on but it really did morph into tech-focused creators (designers, developers, founders, etc) mostly because the early audience and guests pulled it in that direction
[1]: https://workspaces.xyz/p/526-viktor-vlahek-ekaeoq
I have a 50 bucks IKEA table with scrathed surface, a screen from 2008 and a chair for 10 bucks I bought from the last companies shut down.
And no, this is not fancy :-D :-D but it does the job :)
I work in a tiny room and the only place a desk fits is in the corner, so I have a small corner desk that fits there, with a ultra wide monitor, but I have to keep the laptop closed because I don't have space on the desk. Also a trackball because it's too cramped for a mouse.
Having been using different supports throughout the years, using the regular stand that come with monitors always felt like a considerable downgrade and the cost of a proper support that you attach to the desk, drill on it or drill on the wall, depending on the necessity of the space, is usually negligible.
They are usually very pretty and well edited, with impressively done voice overs. They are also usually about aesthetically organizing and displaying an exacting set of objects that can't be changed without breaking out the fulfillment.
I guess aspirational and satisfying to look at, but pretty useless in terms of actual working space organization. Should probably play "A Little to the Left" and get your pattern matching fix that way.
https://workspaces.xyz/collections/developer
https://workspaces.xyz/p/148-austen-allred
I will try to add some "messy reality" ones as well going forward!
"Brutalist" maybe... I could convince myself of that being a positive trait. The unguided wires and bare deskpad-less desktop is a desk that's honest [0] about the materials making it up.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#:~:text...
Fuck this fake life, I'm out
Many people also like to tidy up their home a bit before they receive guests or groom themselves before going out for the night. No reason to judge them.
NOT A DIG AT THESE PEOPLE! The spaces look great! And clearly, they own all the things listed/shown, so there's nothing disingenuous. It's just a bit of a stretch to say it's their workspace... this is the collapsed superposition of their workspace once you measure it with a photo. They took the photo, sat down, realized the pile of books is now where there arm should be and then entropy takes the wheel.
The few that don't have that manicured aesthetic, I love [1]. The books have been opened, the sticky notes are actually used, pens are in the broken mug, and fun knick-knacks are fully deployed to every flat surface EXCEPT the one you have to put your arms on. Tessa dedicated like 15 minutes to these photos then moved on with her day and got shit done. I get the same feeling from that video of Linus Torvald's "zombie shuffling desk". [2] If he spent, like 3 hours organizing and manicuring this, it could fit in on this site just fine, but he probably has other stuff to do.
[0] https://workspaces.xyz/p/507-lubos-volkov
[1] https://workspaces.xyz/p/218-tessa-brown
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYUZAF3ePFE
This whole comment reads as a dig against these people. They like to have it tidy/or they like to tidy up before photographing their desk.
I should try to add this soon.
There's nothing interesting to me about a workplace with a clinically-tidy desk and a LED ring light. I want to see metalsmiths, woodworkers, electrical engineers, etc. Even software occupations often have interesting workspace setups dictated by the nature of the job - for example, many CAD and music / video production setups are eclectic - but these ain't it.
I do agree that I should attempt to share more of the "messy reality" alongside the more staged photos, though.
Mine is a real mess (partly because of ADHD, but not only)
Also noticing a lot more creators on youtube who are metalsmiths, woodworkers, electrical engineers.
Many seem to only have started the past few years, and the rest may have not been presented to me by the algorithm because the algorithm cared to keep me watching and not if I might have diverse interests.
One of the other realities is more and more people are distributed, and having communication be clearer (sound, light, video) is increasingly becoming more common in any field.
The thing that stands out to me about some of these designs is they look great, but not enough show the functionality that needed to be designed as well (organization, storage, etc).
I originally launched Workspaces on April 5, 2020 when world shifted to remote work.
The original idea was simple... interview one person a week, ask them about their setup, publish the photos and gear list.
It's now been 6+ years and 500+ interviews.
Each feature includes workspace photography, a short bio, a full gear list with links, and four interview questions. New issues go out every Saturday morning.
Would love to hear what you think!