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I'm boggled by this - assuming it's not a joke of some kind. Would anybody actually pay to have a clacky key sound if their keyboard doesn't do it already?

I do the bulk of my typing on ancient Microsoft Natural Pro keyboards from the pre-/early 2000s era. (Though I'm trialing the Cloud Nine ergo split keyboards with some success...) Noise is inevitable. Not sure I'd pay for it if it didn't happen, er, naturally though.

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I suspect it's a passion project, or a learning project.

I wrote something similar a few years ago so I could go through the process of making it into the app store. I didn't expect a lot (or any) sales.

(But I probably should have put it up on Hacker News so I could get all kinds of comments like yours.)

I work with headphones on and I really like the sound of my switches. I really want to hear them click while also hear music in my headphones.

No reason to use the app if you are not wearing headphones.

The difference is you cannot make it inaudible for people around you whereas you can with using software like this.

I get that, but I don’t consider the keyboard noise a feature - more of a side effect.

My wife might pay for an app that silences my keyboard, though.

It's been said before but I'll say it 1000 times again: the over-saturation of subscription saas is annoying and wholly unnecessary.

new models of business should replace it, or even larger economic policy.

Perhaps we should include tipping?

Higher tips enables new features.

Say you want keys that sound like lasers…well that’s a 25% tip!

I still firmly believe that a microtransaction economy would be great for exactly this kind of use-cases to transform currently broken/predatory business models into viable, affordable services. Using the Lightning Network for such transactions seems obvious to me, though I know the general hatred of HN for Bitcoin and crypto (the latter of which I agree with).

It's $4. How is that a subscription?

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