What would sell better if people knew about it?

https://lemmy.ml/post/3146819

What would sell better if people knew about it? - Lemmy

It wouldn’t be everybody’s cup of tea, but purely from a “not enough of even their target audience knows about it,” I’d have to say the CharaChorder One.

CharaChorder makes chorded input keyboards to increase typing speeds (chorded input is when you press a couple of keys simultaneously, and it autofills a whole word mapped to that key combo - great for long-but-common words).

The CharaChorder One version (as opposed to CharaChorder Lite) actually has a completely different format, and almost resembles an arcade machine’s controls if every finger on each hand gets one or two joysticks to control. This obviously nets it a steep learning curve, which is probably a major reason it hasn’t picked up steam, but it’s great for normal issues like carpral tunnel, or accessibility issues where you have limited hand movement. It also has an ambidextrous mode where you can set all the normal keys to one side of the keyboard, which is, again, great for accessibility, but also if you want to have your free hand on a mouse or… something… else…

I honestly can’t see anyone but an insignificant fraction of the general population ever using this.

There are only a few people who would from taking the time to learn a how to use this contraption and even fewer who would bother.

Which is why I said it’s not everybody’s cup of tea. The only people who would want it are people with accessibility issues who can’t/don’t want to use text-to-speech, and techies really interested in increasing word output. The problem is, even among that demographic, it’s barely known.