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Anyone likes mechanical keyboard sounds?
3 points by anshrathodfr 717 days ago
Hello everyone!

I don't have different mechanical keyboards and these keyboard sounds are very addictive to hear. I love typing on my MacBook so one day I downloaded an app from GitHub that would make different sounds of the mechanical keyboards from your laptop's speaker when you type. well, I have low RAM (8 GB) on my Macbook and that app uses the Electron (the desktop framework which is popular for sucking up too much RAM) for the app it also had memory leak issues.

So one day my developer friend suggested me to join the app that he was building. his app shows the keys/shortcuts that the user presses with very good and cute-looking themes. he was building it for presentations, instructors, and YouTubers to enhance their tutoring experience. he also planned the cursor highlighter feature with different styles.

When I joined in I thought it would be great if we just tried to implement the mechanical keyboard sounds feature too! we did add it to the app. It works so well and our app is built using Flutter which doesn't take much RAM on desktop apps. so that problem was solved!

so now we have 10+ different keyboard sounds in the app with many cute/attractive themes for the showing keys/shortcuts and cursor highlighter too.

you can check out the app here it's available for the macOS and Windows: https://keystro.app

2 comments

For me, the more silent a keyboard is, the better.
No. I like my keys flat and silent.