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

Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by jacknews on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:41AM (#32507663)

I disagree, I've been using laptop, or tenkeyless, or currently a 65-key optical mechanical keyboard, for forever. I almost never use the numpad, or pgup/home etc keys (vim user), and rarely function keys, so they just get in the way.

Keyboards are quite a personal thing, I think there's room for many different designs.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by Festro on Thursday August 18, 2022 @06:49AM (#32507717)

That's my whole point?

Add another design, because it's personal, and just the vocal minority that show off their sleek minimalist tenkeyless keyboards.

I wouldn't suggest adding too many designs at launch though, that's obviously unsustainable. But eventually sure. I'd just start with a minimal and a 100%. To cover the core bases.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by jacknews on Thursday August 18, 2022 @08:09AM (#32508443)

I don't know, if you're going to start a new product company with a 'mission', it's not a bad debut to offer just a single product that embodies that mission.

This keyboard definitely has it's own style. I'm not sure I agree with it all, actually I don't, but it seems to know what it wants to be.

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