MouseKeyShow
Sleek keystroke & mouse overlay for tutorials and streams
Details
- External ID
- 1249793
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MouseKeyShow
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Education, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
MouseKeyShow is an open-source Windows input visualizer built with Qt 6.8 & C++. Designed for streamers, educators, and creators: • Smart Dodge: Automatically teleports away when the cursor approaches to never block your UI. • Advanced Mouse Support: Dynamic popups for thumb wheels & side buttons (e.g., MX Master 3). • 360° Cursor Radar: 15° arc indicator showing click postures & wheel strobe. • Raw Input: Captures true hardware clicks even if remapped by AltSnap or AHK.
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input controllers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- keystroke and mouse overlay for streamers and tutorial creators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It requires desktop systems programming in C++/Qt with low-level OS event hooks (e.g., Win32 WH_KEYBOARD_LL and WH_MOUSE_LL), transparent hardware-accelerated overlays, and low-latency cursor dodge algorithms.
What it would actually take: Building MouseKeyShow requires a native C++ application using Qt 6 or direct Win32/DirectX APIs for non-intrusive, performant window overlays. The core challenges include installing low-level global Windows input hooks without triggering antivirus flags, managing multi-monitor DPI scaling smoothly, and polling/handling extended mouse inputs and hotkeys with negligible latency. This demands deep expertise in Windows internals, driver/input event pipelines, and desktop GUI architectures.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 60 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 61 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
- CursorArc · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- NavKey · ph · 2026-09-17 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- omalogi · github · 2026-09-29 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- show-keystrokes · github · 2026-09-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- MouseKit · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- CupertinoClicks · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Mechanical Keyboard Sounds App: KeyJoy · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Fantastic Mouse - Remote Wifi Mouse App · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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