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Minuum Keyboard
Company blog · minuum.com · on HN as wxsdesigndata
Minuum Keyboard is the company blog at minuum.com, writing about design and data. Since 2013, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Minuum - new mobile chorded keyboard concept”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Homepage of Minuum, a one-dimensional keyboard for small screens. HN comments mention the product, its discontinued iOS app, and a post on future wearable typing. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Minuum - new mobile chorded keyboard concept8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-03-18
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-14
- Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-23
What Hacker News says?
I loved Minuum's one-dimensional keyboard! The app disappeared from the iOS App Store, but looks like it still exists for Android in the Google Play Store (last updated in 2017). Did the developer go out of business? http://minuum.com/
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on “Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone”Submitted Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard as a story · 207 points
HN discussionCall quality is a matter of using decent hardware, and http://minuum.com/ solves the keyboard problem. I expect to see amazing developments in the next couple years!
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on “Moto 360”Submitted Taps and Swipes: Intuition vs. Machine Learning in UX Design as a story · 15 points
HN discussionMinuum co-founder here: Please check out our data collection policy at http://minuum.com/data/ . We actually wrote a fair amount of it ourselves to try and reduce the “legalese” aspect. Hopefully, as you suggest, we can work to increase transparence more in the future. As someone below mention the key reason we introduced network access was to enable language packs. We also collect some analytics, but it's limited t…
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on “Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard”Submitted Who Forgot the Smart TV? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionClicking on the profile link: "Co-founder and CTO at Whirlscape, makers of the Minuum keyboard http://minuum.com , xavier@whirlscape.com" I'm not sure that's really "posting anonymously"
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on “Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet”Submitted Minuum - new mobile chorded keyboard concept as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm not following. * Does this still expect you to hit every key but some of them need multiple taps? * Are they doing fancy autocorrect-like magic to decide which letter you meant , and if so why use this instead of taking it one more step and using http://minuum.com/ ? * Or is it something else?
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on “Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones”Submitted Minuum (YC W14) Launches Serendipitous Emoji Prediction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs a datapoint: we build the Minuum Keyboard ( http://minuum.com ), and our iOS version was written from the ground up in Swift. That is shipped in the App Store and has been since iOS 8 launched. To echo much of the sentiment here: the language is definitely usable in production now. The tooling is not ready yet. We have wasted untold hours dealing with XCode crashing. If you're contracting this out keep in mind th…
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on “Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?”Submitted QWERTY evolved: typing on a circle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSorry for sounding like a shill for this comment. as far as typing on silly surfaces, minnum has personally had my eye the most. tl;dr make the keyboard 1 dimension, and then use excessive prediction to correct the issues with that. combining that with a watch with a distance sensor (up along the arm), you then would have a keyboard and trackpad in the space of a watch. http://minuum.com/future-of-wearable-typing/ f…
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on “Thumbnail track pad”Submitted The Minuum Keyboard Project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSame for me. Especially because I could never find a competing keyboard that handles multiple languages so well. Only minuum ( http://minuum.com/ ) could be an alternative for me since it is great to have more screen space.
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on “Swiftkey Keyboard Android is now free”Submitted Minuum celebrates 100B pixels saved as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMinuum seems more interesting than this: http://minuum.com/model-your-users-algorithms-behind-the-min...
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on “The Analog Keyboard Project: Text Input for Small Devices”Submitted Typing on Android Wear as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI used minumm keyboard a long time ago and it was actually good, 1-2 cm of keyboard height, sadly I think it's been discontinued long ago, but you can see a couple of screenshots here http://minuum.com/
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on “Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones”Submitted New keyboard interface? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typing is evolving on Android Wear as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minuum Landing Page as a story · 1 points
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