strickey
All the clack. None of the keyboard.
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Details
- External ID
- 1276892
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- strickey
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Mac, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
A native Swift macOS menu bar app that adds mechanical-style sound to everyday typing. Features - Four regular-key variations per switch, plus dedicated space, return, and backspace recordings. An independent 0–100% keyboard volume slider that follows your Mac's default output and system volume. Pause/resume, sound preview, and optional Command/Control shortcut filtering. Compact, rounded Liquid Glass controls with neutral colors and support for Reduce Transparency.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mechanical keyboard sound simulator for typists
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard macOS menu bar utility written in Swift that listens for global keydown events via CGEventTap and triggers random local audio samples.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 457 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #149 of 458 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- Clackwell · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Keybit · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Mechanical Keyboard App－FunKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- BalanceBar · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- mactooloud · ph · 2026-09-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Sonos Keys · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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