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Ask HN: Which desk do you use? Which desk Y Combinator use?
Just wonder which desks do people use? And which desk Y Combinator use?
- BlackNapoleon 14y agoHow do you make a "Ask HN" post?
- tnorthcutt 14y agoLike this: http://d.pr/i/rMy2 http://d.pr/i/rMy2
- niico 14y agoOnly HN Premium accounts can do it.
- briandear 14y agoI personally use a desk called 'Bivi' http://myturnstone.com/settings/private-office-2/ http://myturnstone.com/settings/private-office-2/ As far as YC, perhaps someone else will know.
- magnusgraviti 14y agoThanks! It looks interesting.
- Codhisattva 14y agoJust switched to a hacked walking desk made from a board put on a treadmill. I lucked out with the height being about right for typing.
- kellishaver 14y agoI don't think my exact model is made anymore, but it's extremely similar to this: http://www.amazon.com/White-Frosted-Glass-Steel-Fighter/dp/B003VOJOT0 http://www.amazon.com/White-Frosted-Glass-Steel-Fighter/dp/B... I've had it for about 5 years now. I like the size of it and it's surprisingly sturdy, but I'm not overly fond of the glass top, because it's so hard to keep clean.
- pg 14y agoYC doesn't have desks as such. We have long dinner tables custom designed by our architect Kate Courteau that some amount of work also gets done at (http://www.vinodnarayan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/y-combinator.jpg http://www.vinodnarayan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/y-com...), and a few conference tables that are all different.
- zio99 14y agoReminds me of salad king cafeteria tables here: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/406039_408177132567682_800622991_n.jpg http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/c0.0.403.403/p403x4... and here: http://www.nothincrazie.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/salad_king_seating.jpg http://www.nothincrazie.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/salad_...
- magnusgraviti 14y agoThanks for reply! I am big fan of YC so this was really interesting question for me :) I believe workspace design is very important for great results and looking at YC backed-startups I was wondering which desk (and not only desk) are you using. I'll definitely enter YC with some of my ideas at least ready as initial prototype (writing this using the moment). I hope I will like it so to make something similar in future to save this state of startup-spirit.
- rdl 14y agoI like the tables but not a big fan of the benches. Uncomfortable after a couple hours, and really inconvenient when it's full of people and someone new wants to sit down (you want to pull the bench back to sit, but if people are on it you can't, and you can't really easily step in with people on each side of the empty space, either). Chairs would probably turn into a fiasco, but are more comfortable, even the cheap white foldable kind.
- Toph 14y agoThis isn't a pic of my actual desk (pulled from Google Images) but its the exact same desk I have, minus the drawer (was too lazy to take a pic): http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/5221683438_8716ac1be8_z.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/5221683438_8716ac1be8_z.j... Been using it for the last 6 years. Works great.
- dangrossman 14y agoI don't use a desk. I work on the sofa, on a chaise lounge in the sunroom, on a folding chair on the patio, sometimes in bed. With a laptop, on my lap. If I'm tired of sitting, I have a freestanding shelving unit in the sunroom that's the right height to put the laptop on top of while standing.
- uslic001 14y agoThis is my favorite desk: http://www.hardwoodfurniture.com/sitting-standing-computer-desk.htm http://www.hardwoodfurniture.com/sitting-standing-computer-d...