<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>&amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; is not as good as &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know, but it won&amp;#x27;t be less than the material cost, which is currently X&amp;quot; would go a long way towards taking the people you want to get excited about this product seriously. We understand how &amp;quot;things cost money&amp;quot; works, but going &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know, figure it out yourself&amp;quot; is not a nice thing to tell people who are actually interested in what you&amp;#x27;re making =)&lt;p&gt;Even updating it to say &amp;quot;it will likely be in the $100-$200 range due to material cost and production fees&amp;quot; is fine: that&amp;#x27;s a _huge_ range, and still better than &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know, figure it out yourself&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>penkia</author><text>hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn&amp;#x27;t ordered any parts.&lt;p&gt;For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>I like this project.  However, I wish that under the FAQ for &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the target price?&amp;quot; they had a better answer than &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll know better in DVT stage, meanwhile please find the bill of materials in design files for detail.&amp;quot; Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn&amp;#x27;t list price info)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet</title><url>https://cutiepi.io/index.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yitchelle</author><text>I find it refreshing and frightening that target price is not known when attempting to build a commercial grade electronics.&lt;p&gt;Is component selection conducted without any price consideration?</text><parent_chain><item><author>penkia</author><text>hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn&amp;#x27;t ordered any parts.&lt;p&gt;For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>I like this project.  However, I wish that under the FAQ for &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the target price?&amp;quot; they had a better answer than &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll know better in DVT stage, meanwhile please find the bill of materials in design files for detail.&amp;quot; Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn&amp;#x27;t list price info)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet</title><url>https://cutiepi.io/index.html</url></story>