What does HackerNews think of thumb-key?

A privacy-conscious Android keyboard made for your thumbs

Language: Kotlin

#41 in Android
Wholeheartedly agree with the author but don't think he's radical enough about solutions.

Thumb-key takes a radical approach, and I've watched someone who has become comptetent at it (which i haven't) type elegantly on it.

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

But I always wonder why noone has tried building a hardware chord keyboard for a phone. It seems perfectly suited.

Oh phone, I would suggest a change to a different input method entirely. I used Messagease for years, and I've switched to Thumb-Key now, https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key (same concept, just Open Source and maintained).

My thinking is that if you throw a full keyboard on a tiny screen, and remove actual physical keys, layout is besides the point. You've already gone wrong in a way that layout cannot fix.