Keyboard Graveyard
DesignerViktus Design
Designer of various keyboards like the Viktus Styrka, M0lly, and SP-111.
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Peac Design
Design Studio based in Melbourne, Australia which released the PLX keyboard
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Vala
Just another vendor getting caught buying too many keyset extras and not paying designers and invoices.
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Mykeyboard.eu
Ran a bunch of group buys but never paid GMK for them, leaving their customers out to dry. Went bankrupt. Was really shitty at communicating as well.
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Zap Cables
Once of the few good vendors on this list. Was a great place for custom keyboard cables. Had one initial shutdown but then came back for bit.
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MKUltra
Started off doing keyboard foam cutting, then got into Choc stuff. Got overextended due to group buys for keycaps and shutdown due to that and health issues.
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LotusPro/Rose Cables/Summitcables
Just your typical scummy cable maker. Ran GB for osu! gamepad and failed to deliver on that. Also has a jizz blanket, as mentioned in ex-girlfriend's lengthy exposé about him.
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Charue Design
Had totally shit quality control for Sunsetter, which sunsetted the business.
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Keyclack
One of the OG vendors in the keyboard community, did good stuff like making BKE Topre domes and Cherry MX deskmats available. Originally started off doing cables, but successfully progressed from there.
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SwitchTop
Mainly sold the basic range of Gateron switches, switch parts, initial run of Let's Split PCBs.
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Noxary/Xondat
Ran a bunch of group buys for keyboard cases, went off and bought fancy watches and car.
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Mechs & Co
Got super greedy and ran a shitton of keyset GBs during pandemic and bought a ton of extras in a pyramid-like scheme. Fucked over a ton of people so gigachads CannonKeys and NovelKeys had to come to the rescue.
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Aeternus
Ran GBs for the 40% keyboard degenerates, but had life issues and went silent.
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Mechs on Deck
Was a weekly show hosted by Chewwy and Osiris.
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Panc Co
Ran GB for Panc40 and GMK Thai Tea and ghosted everyone.
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g Heavy Industries
Store for various Choc boards with emphasis on steno, Jane went MIA.
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Project Keyboard/onefiftynine
Stopped communicating about some GMK GBs.
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Luxe Cables
Yet another scummy cable maker. Ran cable GBs to match up with keysets while not fulfilling past cable orders. Dug himself into shitty NFT stuff.
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CFTKB
One of the ones who kicked off the trend of exposed through-hole components, but then ghosted customers and stopped fulfilling orders.
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RiftKeys
Owner harassed a Twitch streamer, so other vendors cut ties with him. Accused someone else of slandering him, leading to video of him threatening someone and punching air vigorously.
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PolarType/KumaTech
Ran GB for Geekarch BOW R2 and ghosted. Did a shitty job with previous GBs as well.
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The Thocc
Yet another podcast with some interesting guests, hosted by VogonPT and TherminGoat.
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Caps Unlocked
Ran a number of group buys for his own keyboard designs. Went bankrupt. Infamously beaten up by Xondat at UK keyboard meetup.
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Clueboard
One of the original members in creating QMK firmware, Skully had to step away from Clueboard due to life stuff.
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Top Clack
Was a weekly show on Twitch with build streams interspersed during the week.
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This Week in Keyboards
Offshoot of Top Clack by former co-host Manofinterests, covered news/group buys.
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Jaxxstatic/Mint Autumn
Ran group buy for Rukia. Went off and bought ice cream machine.
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SpaceCat Design
Disappeared of the face of the Earth, leaving his devoted followers in his Discord server disappointed and wondering where he went off to after a move during the pandemic.
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Keebcast
Podcast hosted by Alexotos, Spacecables, and Chasedotgg.
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Juju Cables
Australian cable maker. Tried to come up with his own keyboard marketplace.
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Kingly Keys/The_Royal
Ran GB for The Ave and Romac. Ran into some personal issues and decided to ghost everyone like 90% of the other people on this list.
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HID Technologies
Had partnered up with BastardKB to do Dactyl Manuform builds, but never fulfilled the orders and went off to buy new Macbook, PC, and boat.
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Hipyo Tech
Don't kid yourself, Hipyo has always been fucking cringe and just shills shitty keyboards by praising them as the greatest keyboard ever like how Trump praises everything he has as the best thing ever. So to have him here as a keyboard 'Content Creator' is kind of a stretch, as he was really dead from the beginning.
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Tesletron/Greenwald Designs
Ran group buy for LuminaKB, a corian keyboard. Threw bunch of blame on manufacturer and ran out of money.
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The International Kit
A podcast hosted by Egla and KwerDenker, who brought a more European perspective on keyboards, including their love for ISO (yuck). Also ran a GB for an ISO Enter with the show's logo on it.
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Mechkeys.ca
Had some interesting boards run like the Mechmini 2. Espectro GB went all crazy, as the manufacturer went MIA, and there was weird shit about having to track down the factory owner. Kinda like Michael Jordan, Dave/evolize retired and untired from the keyboard community a few times, and in his final departure from keyboards, he went off to do storm chasing.
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Woodkeys
Ran a number of group buys for keyboard cases like APX, Scarlet Bandana, Aluminum Let's Split cases, and then exit scammed.
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Cartel
Ran GB for the Contra (formerly know as the Danck), leading to one of the worst soldering jobs most people have ever seen. Composed of Hiney, End, and K1.
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Board Culture
Podcast hosted by Walletburner after the demise of KeebTown.
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KeebTown
Was a weekly show on Discord hosted by TennisShoeNinja, Garrett, and Walletburner.
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Board Makers
One of the first mechanical keyboard podcasts out there, hosted by Jack of OLKB and wildpanic