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.
YC 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-com...), and a few conference tables that are all different.
Thanks 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.
I 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.
I 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.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 42.4 ms ] threadI'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.
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.
Chairs would probably turn into a fiasco, but are more comfortable, even the cheap white foldable kind.
Been using it for the last 6 years. Works great.
http://www.hardwoodfurniture.com/sitting-standing-computer-d...