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ShotgunKeyboard turns every keystroke into a small acoustic incident

shotgunkeyboard.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 88.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A macOS menu-bar app that plays a shotgun blast whenever you press a key, system-wide.

Why it surfaced

For $1.99, ShotgunKeyboard offers volume control, modifier-key support, launch-at-login, overlapping blasts, and a one-switch Input Monitoring setup. Its deadpan copy insists that it records nothing and adds, with admirable precision, “The only thing it shoots is air.”

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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

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