Piano Keyboard#

Piano Keyboard is an Android keyboard app that I released on Google Play around 2011. It has since been removed from Google Play for maintenance reasons.

This app started as a direct follow-up to my experience with No Look Keyboard. No Look Keyboard was an interesting idea, but in practice it was simply too difficult to use. So this time I wanted to build a keyboard with a lower learning curve—something you could try and immediately feel was fun. That’s how I ended up designing and building a keyboard concept based on piano keys.

Archive#

This is where I collect projects I once launched via an app store (e.g., Google Play / the App Store) or on the web, but later took down or shut down, as well as projects I built with the intention of launching, but ultimately decided not to ship or put on hold. It’s not limited to Android apps for Google Play—this can also include iOS apps, web services, and other formats. Rather than keeping only “success stories” as a portfolio, I wanted a more honest place to preserve the trial-and-error and the decisions behind building.

No Look Keyboard#

No Look Keyboard is an Android keyboard app that I released on Google Play around 2011. It has since been removed from Google Play for maintenance reasons. For me, though, it’s not just “an old app”—it was my first experience building and actually shipping a side project, which is why I wanted to preserve it here in the archive.

The idea started from a very personal moment. One day, I felt motion sick while typing something on my phone on a bus, and I wondered: “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could type on a smartphone keyboard without looking at the screen?” With that, I began building a keyboard concept designed to let you keep your eyes forward (or on something far away) and rely more on finger sensation than visual feedback.