[tgb]

I just bought a new keyboard. There is literally none on the market that has the keys I want in the right places. This makes some sense since there are too many possibilities, but damn is it annoying to have to make tradeoffs. Please someone make a customized keyboard business. I ended up giving up on have a small (in width) keyboard with F keys, separate media keys, and pg up/dwn.

Now good luck finding a laptop with the right keyboard.

[mamcx]

As I tell in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12679849 exist a whole sub-culture of build your own mechanical keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

https://geekhack.org/

https://www.massdrop.com/mechanical-keyboards

So yes, exist people that build customized keyboards or (maybe) better, give info in how build your own.

[falcolas]

> There is literally none on the market that has the keys I want in the right places.

If you're referring to laptop keyboard layouts, I agree. So much wasted space on your average macbook for the scrunched up keys they give you. If you're referring to keyboards in general, well, I disagree. There's a lot of custom options out there for almost every keyboard layout you could ever want.

[tgb]

I was referring to a standalone keyboard. You're right that there are some customizable keyboards out there (this one looks particularly good [1]), but unlike most people looking for a customizable keyboard, I'd like it to be both wireless and without mechanical keyswitches. I haven't seen those available. And for mechanical keyboards you tend not to have dedicated media keys (ideally, they'd feel differently so that you can hit them without looking or in the dark -- I'll never remember which order the volume keys, mute, and pause song buttons are in since it's non-standard).

[1] http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/