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What kind of geek are you? Nerd, Badass, or Hacker?
2 points by spifd on Jan 11, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Bazinga!

My geek lifestyle is Programmer and I love it. And you? ツ

I'm actually 43, enterprise architect... huh, really, geek you said???

Ok, on my spare time, probably like a lot of 40s, I've always wanted to do something fun, you know, like when I was a young intro maker on Amiga. I tried a few stuff, learning Swift and starting often too huge projects while having a life. But then I decided to focus on just getting real fun. That's why, last year, I started developing Geekey, a custom keyboard entirely made for "Geeks" (like me?). At start, it was just a leetspeak helper app... then I couldn't resist to do more and feel the pain with iOS keyboard (cr)API.

Last november, we launched. On ProductHunt mostly. I probably need to write a longer story post on Medium. We'll see. In the meantime, I'd love to get HackerNews community feedback on the app itself and listen to your crazy suggestions as we're already working on next release.

Geekey is a kind of "geek swiss knife". It brings pretty cool fonts in any of your apps like a ŋıƈɛ ɱɛʂʂąɠɛ, Crazy Text Effects like uʍop-ǝpısdn ƃuıʇıɹʍ, Kaomojis (‿), leetspeak, URL/HTML/BAse64 encoders, Photos as ASCII art, International/Dvorak layouts.....

Wanna try and give feedback? You can try it right now for free on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/geekey/id955821631

Or look to http://geekey.io to know more.

Feel free to ask anything (technical or personal). W00t!




Looks good. Any droid development planed?


Would love to but not planned, not yet. Focus first on iOS then we'll see... that said, Android keyboard API looks easier and there are probably even more geeks!




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