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This is was a really unproductive thread to read. As an observer, gotta say I don’t agree with your point. Custom chimes and not having a wire are both extremel

This is was a really unproductive thread to read. As an observer, gotta say I don’t agree with your point. Custom chimes and not having a wire are both extremely reasonable requirements to follow. What if the default chime triggers some PTSD? (Probably doesn’t, but it could happen!) What if the landlord doesn’t want you to drill a hole through the side of your house and it doesn’t come with a doorbell? The solution isn’t “over engineered” it’s just “engineered” (not an off the shelf product)

whstl 1mo ago
> Custom chimes and not having a wire are both extremely reasonable requirements to follow. I never said otherwise? Perhaps it was unproductive because you’re assuming I’m making a point while I’m not? My point was entirely that other people can call this “over engineered” due to feature creep. The person who called it over engineered in the first place wasn’t me. I appreciate that you and other people seem to want to discuss doorbells, and someone else seems to want to discuss christmas lights, but I am not really interested in that. I am arguing a general point (“feature creep can lead to overengineering”), not this specific product.