Looks great! has a real teenage engineering aesthetic about it. Do you have any photographs of the real thing?
No prototype photographs yet... but soon!
I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
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#362Looks great. What tool did you use to get the stunning 3d renderings?
The 3d renderings are all created in Keyshot. The model was created in Fusion 360.
I am fairly new to both and found them both reasonably intuitive.
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#363I feel like I'm the target customer here. I use macOS and exclusively use minimalistic keyboards.
I like this a lot and would consider buying if the price point was right. The only change I would like to see is a smaller font size on the number keys.
Congrats and good luck!
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#364Why is number row font emphasized?
No space between F keys. It helps find the keys faster, for example, in debugging case.
I’m happy with Fnatic mini streak keyboard so far.
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#365Wireless mechanical keyboards feel rare - this is awesome!
I particularly love the ideals on the About page.
"Everything is black" "Well paid workers. Good working conditions"
This is a product where you can so clearly see the thought that went into it (partially because you tell us how much thought went into it) and it shows.
Beautiful work and congratulations.
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#366I absolutely love this, and this the first mechanical keyboard I actually want to get.
One option I hope you will provide--that I hope is easy enough that you would actually consider--is to provide a key cap set that is completely blank, or is very minimal. I don't need anything printed on my keyboard, and I would prefer to not see such a gorgeous keyboard with all that white printed on it, especially the number caps.
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#367There's a lot of criticism in the comments here, some of it feels very negative. I can imagine reading it as the OP is quite demoralising. Personally I think what the OP has achieved is very impressive. The design looks beautiful, and there's a very "Apple-esque" feel to the website. I love that sustainability has been made a requirement as part of the design. I think some of the other comments give good feedback abo…
This is becoming a trend on HN where top comment points calls out the criticism in a thread. I personally feel there is nothing negative about critique and one of the reasons people broadcast their work here is to receive more feedback on it. Not every showcase automatically deserves a compliment. I think we should respect people for their opinions and the danger of applying negative pressure to criticism is we creat…
(Fwiw, I think most of the feedback in this thread is thoughtful and encouraging - speaking more generally below.)
I think the gap is the difference between giving feedback to a person and broadcasting superiority. The former is what we do in-person. It takes constant active effort to not do the latter.
Giving feedback in-person, you want to make sure your feedback land. Encouraging where possible by pointing out what works, discussing the ways it can or needs to improve.
When people don't give feedback to the OP as a person, and rather treat it like a faceless corporate entity, or go full-Slashdot, that does get a bit mean-spirited.
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#368Oh I absolutely love the font choices and numbers as a designer - wish more boutique mechanical creators would get creative there more frequently. The knobs are quite handsome too. Immediately subscribed to the mailing list ... Thank you for sharing and I hope to see more eventually. :)
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#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
The font thing is bigger than people might think. As soon as I saw the number row, I had such an immediate and harsh reaction to it that it surprised me. I almost couldn't believe that was the cause, but when I waited for the device to turn around again, that was definitely it. I don't even have to look at my fingers often, but I wouldn't be able to stand walking by those numbers on a regular basis. I don't think I'v…
I've had a dual boiler espresso machine (La Spaziale S1) for 10 years that's a typography horror show. There are less than 10 words on the device and they managed to use 4 completely different fonts: their logo font (which I actually like), a squat serif thing for 'S1', an ugly script font, and worst of all for the 'BOILER' and 'ON/OFF' buttons: Comic Sans. It occasionally bothers me but most of the time I'm able to…
Sometimes things have their own personalities and I came to love that and stop obsessing over how I wish they were designed. At the end of the day we’re free to design and build things ourselves. What’s more irking to me is bad functional design that makes awkward to use things.
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#370Looks very nice! Does the keyboard act as a wired keyboard if hooked up by usb-c? Asking because I would be using it with a KVM-style switch.