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$500!? Plus shipping!? You can make a standing desk with $100 worth of Ikea parts then buy a tall stool/chair for $75 on Amazon. Bam, just beat your "most affordable" sit/stand desk by $325+. Oh, and you can have it next week instead of next year (or later).

I guess I'll start my Kickstarter campaign tonight.

P.S. 45" is not enough height for many of us tall folk, especially in dress shoes with a thick heel.

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This is motorized, so you can also sit at a regular chair if you want as well. Some people don't like stools, they simply don't offer the same level of comfort and ergonomics that a regular chair would.

So spend $200 and get a drafting chair. You'd still be saving a couple hundred bucks.

Drafting chairs aren't as comfortable or as good for your back as a nice standard chair. If part of why you're doing this for your back and are going to sit very much at all, you'll want a better chair.

I like this one - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499144433/the-cardboard...

Only one height? And they claim it fits anyone from 5'2" to 6'2" tall?

I'm 6'3" and my girlfriend is 5'5". Watching her try to use my standing desk is comical. I think those guys are being extremely optimistic, if not outright deceitful.

That seems pretty cool actually, but I wonder if there would be any wobble, or if it would feel a bit off writing on it.

But then you can't use your $750 fancy office chair with it ;).

I think a good cheapo solution would be some sort of platform that you can place on top of an existing desk and will go up and down with hydraulic legs or similar. That way you don't have to remove your desk at your office, get a new chair or similar to try it out.

But is it automatic?

As automatic as it needs to be!

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