[bradhe]

It's honestly not even that expensive considering all the functionality you get and the tech included (which is something HN should understand)

[hyperhopper]

The functionality is a small screen with a timer and a few API calls to set the timer for you sometimes. $189 for a timer is not a lot of functionality for more than 1% of the annual salary of a minimum wage worker. You can get a full android phone for that much which has 10000x the functionality.