I understand the feedback about the price. When I created the original TinyPilot,[0] I wanted a low-priced alternative to the $600 KVM over IP options I was seeing, and now I sell my devices for $400-500/unit.
The thing that's tough about selling hardware is that it seems easy to produce a few units cheaply, but creating a sustainable business for it, the costs add up. You have to fulfill orders, provide support when there are delivery issues, provide support when the customer has trouble understanding how to connect to a device on their local network. And there's certification, stockpiling components so you don't run out of stock, managing inventory from many different vendors.
TinyPilot became profitable in 2023, but for the first 2.5 years, we were operating at a loss. [1]
Also, small correction: no KVM over IP vendor is really selling open hardware. The part that's open is the software. I haven't seen any vendors publish their hardware schematics. It's expensive to create PCBs, and it's not like open-source software where you can hope to get useful external contributions.
[0] https://tinypilotkvm.com/blog/build-a-kvm-over-ip-under-100
[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2023/10/#tinypilothttpstin...