US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese
Details
- External ID
- 47785120
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese
- Website domain
- simone.org
- Launched
- April 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38817480719794345
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input controllers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- switch to japanese keyboard for more keys
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a configuration file and write-up for Karabiner-Elements, an existing macOS keyboard remapping tool, which can easily be authored and formatted with LLM assistance.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.
- Keysake · ph · 2026-09-18 · 253 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones · hn · 2025-12-10 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard · hn · 2026-08-06 · 306 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tenuo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- steam-frame-full-keyboard · github · 2026-09-29 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- KeyFlip · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Effected Keyboard 2 · hn · 2026-04-28 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Split Keyboard for iPad · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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- No other launches for this product.
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