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I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

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Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#601

Cool, congrats and thanks for sharing, we need more competition here 1. raised/indented keys will get dirty really fast, an option without would sell me 2. 2-device pairing is great, your competitors have 3 though 3. hot-swap keycaps would be a huge sell 4. nice typography, why isn't the logo in it? take off the logo 5. replace the empty area with home => end 6. 3 modifiers on the left, 3 right please! (not 4-left/2-…

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Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#603

Cool, congrats and thanks for sharing, we need more competition here 1. raised/indented keys will get dirty really fast, an option without would sell me 2. 2-device pairing is great, your competitors have 3 though 3. hot-swap keycaps would be a huge sell 4. nice typography, why isn't the logo in it? take off the logo 5. replace the empty area with home => end 6. 3 modifiers on the left, 3 right please! (not 4-left/2-…

> 14. add clit mouse

I've tried a lot of really nice mech keyboards but this is the one thing that makes me go back to my 'ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II'. It's super nice to never have to leave home row and I definitely feel the relief in terms of RSI.

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#605

Looks great. Would you consider making this Ortholinear? I used to use the TypeMatrix 2030 & loved it. The issues were it's durability, necessity of using skins, non-programmability, & it's usage scissor keys. I have since switched to the Ergodox EZ for home & Planck EZ for travel. The Planck is compact, durable, & programmable...however what's missing is an ortholinear programmable travel keyboard with a full assort…

You can DIY one with choc switches:

https://boardsource.xyz/store/5ecb822386879c9a0c22db84

https://www.littlekeyboards.com/products/naked60bmp-keyboard...

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#606

Cool, congrats and thanks for sharing, we need more competition here 1. raised/indented keys will get dirty really fast, an option without would sell me 2. 2-device pairing is great, your competitors have 3 though 3. hot-swap keycaps would be a huge sell 4. nice typography, why isn't the logo in it? take off the logo 5. replace the empty area with home => end 6. 3 modifiers on the left, 3 right please! (not 4-left/2-…

> 17. lmk when it's ergo (cries in carpal tunnel)

I haven't received it yet but a while ago I backed a split mechanical keyboard on kickstarter that I hope will be good for this. If you want to check it out its the keyboardio model 100.

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#608

Cool, congrats and thanks for sharing, we need more competition here 1. raised/indented keys will get dirty really fast, an option without would sell me 2. 2-device pairing is great, your competitors have 3 though 3. hot-swap keycaps would be a huge sell 4. nice typography, why isn't the logo in it? take off the logo 5. replace the empty area with home => end 6. 3 modifiers on the left, 3 right please! (not 4-left/2-…

4. the logo is great! 13. website is just fine! nice renders

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#609

I want to hear more about what you expect the rotary encoder to be used for. You clearly put a lot of thought into making it happen, so - why? I feel like there must be some interesting use cases, but I'm drawing a blank.

Volume, Zoom, Digital Audio Production knobs, Video/Photoshop timeline or level controls, Gaming, Productivity macro (context switching, app switching, Brightness Anything that benefits from fine tuned 'back and forth' adjustments that settle on a value in a range. It's often more satisfying to have 'one motion' control of these functions rather than repeated 'up down' clicks to achieve a desired range. With a rotary…

Yep, imagine replacing a guitar's whammy bar with a rotary jog dial; not the same

Re: I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

#610

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is already a prototype with these keycaps so I guess he did find somebody already. The price will be…. Interesting though

Is there or are those all renders?

The OP responds elsewhere that the prototypes are 3d printed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513522
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