HACKER Q&A
📣 napolux

What's the setup of your home office?


As per title. What is your home office setup in these times of forced "work from home"?

Any non obvious product you can suggest me to purchase and improve my home office?


  👤 flurdy Accepted Answer ✓
Good monitor mounts to maximise desk space. I use Ergotron LX HD which can handle heavier screens. Mine is the taller sit-stand version, with the additional handle that sits between the VESA mounts so that I don't pull on the actual screens.

Alternatively a good electric desk like a Jarvis or Uplift, or Ikea's Idåsen.

A good desk lamp that can project diffuse light onto your face for meetings. Combined with a good 1080p camera that sits high. E.g. Logitech C920S. Not a low-res up-your-nose laptop webcam.

Visit https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ https://reddit.com/r/averagebattlestations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/macsetups/ for more ideas or envy.


👤 bradknowles
If you’re doing video calls, you need good video lighting. Neewer makes some good products in this space.

Also, you’re going to want a good microphone. Blue (now owned by Logitech) and Røde make good USB-connected microphones you might want to look at.

Do some research on what it takes to put on a good YouTube or Twitch stream, and those products are likely to also work well for doing regular video calls for business.


👤 bradknowles
See also the page linked from the HN article “How we’ve upped our audio game, and improved our video calls” at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24021471