The pedal business
Anyone who thinks there is a lot of easy money in the pedal industry hasn't had to run a business at any sort of scale.
Did literally anybody on this forum *ever* say this? Like, not even just in this thread, but *ever*?
We all know what raw parts costs are, we all can do enough math to know what we'd need to charge to make a living, and that's why most of us don't.
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But 29Pedals is NOT selling a $50 for $150. He's selling a $50 pedal, strapped to $50 worth of bullshit that do *not* actually improve the product in any meaningful way, for $300.
And then getting absolutely livid when people point out the $50 worth of bullshit is, in fact, bullshit.
Designers shouldn't put bullshit in their designs, and people shouldn't be buying bullshit.
(I say "shouldn't" because obviously both things are happening, a lot, but that doesn't mean those things should happen unchallenged.)
Original designs
Apart from a few scammers, designers are putting their heart into making things they believe are better. EUNA included.
Again, it doesn't matter if the snake oil salesman "believe"s his salve cures diseases, he's still the one selling snake oil and should absolutely be called out on it.
But let's be charitable - credit where credit is due, 29Pedals dude's "real" innovation is his "whatever" power supply (which in my estimation creates more problems than it solves, but-), not the analog circuits he hooks it up to.
Maybe if he wants so badly to be a power supply designer, he should go off and be a power supply designer (hell, sell your tech to Strymon or Eventide, high-draw DSP is an *actually* good use-case for a well-protected power supply).
Because going about it the other way - starting every design with "hmm, what can I hook up to my weird-ass power supply?" and working your way *back* to a modest analog circuit, is just producing laughable results.