The Twitch streamer behind Tfue's custom $3,500 mechanical keyboard:
When Tae Ha Kim began streaming himself constructing mechanical keyboards on Twitch roughly two years ago, he didn't think it would be a viable replacement for his San Francisco programming career. And he never imagined it would lead to designing custom accessories for some of the top video game players in the world. But the 24-year-old California native has found a unique niche on both Twitch and YouTube that combines bespoke product design with a growing interest in the broader gaming community for high-end, personalized peripherals like keyboards and mice.
Now, under the banner of Taeha Types, Kim designs and assembles high-priced keyboards on commission by sourcing rare and limited-run components from across the globe. "If you're a streamer or someone working in the video content creation space, nobody sees what car you drive or what house you live in," Kim tells The Verge. "But you are showing off the tech you use most of the time. So it makes sense when you think about it. These high profile streamers, gamers, and content creators want to have high-end gear they show off while they're streaming and doing their jobs."
Most recently, Kim put together a custom mechanical keyboard for Turner "Tfue" Tenney, one of the world's most popular Twitch streamers and among the most famous Fortnite competitors currently playing the game.
If you could rock a custom keyboard built to your specifications for a reasonable price, would you go for it?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @02:35PM (3 children)
And after a hard day of pounding the keys, our gentleman of taste downshifts by writing his day's thoughts in a leatherbound journal using a $1,000 fountain pen.
NOTE: People actually do this. Sell something for a crazy high price and it becomes "high quality" justified by the price alone. Well, to be more precise, it's high quality if almost nobody else has it or can have it.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:25PM (1 child)
Hey, apart from the $1,000 dollar bit, and the taste bit, and the gentleman bit, and the bit about leather, and the bit about thinking...I resemble that remark..
I'm back to using my 1920's Duofold, as some cnut cniked the Parker 25 that I'd had since the late 70's.., sure, I might scrawl with rollerballs and their ilk on a daily basis, but I write with a fountain pen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:55PM
Real gentlemen use quills from bald eagles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:54PM
Actually its worse than this and a well known theory in economics. You have an item at 500 nobody buys it. At 10000 however...