The story of Lightkey began in 2012, as I moved from a software development position to a management position.
As a software engineer I had a great time being surrounded by great productivity tools that allowed me to quickly transform my ideas and thoughts into actual products. However, becoming a manager I quickly came to understand that instead of writing effective code, a shift is required towards effective communication. Documents, presentations and emails as means for conveying ideas, plans and decisions became an important part of my job. As a result, I found myself at the end of each day stuck at the office typing endlessly until both the keyboard and I decided to call it a day.
At some point I started wondering whether I’m missing something; Is it normal to spend so much time on typing? Am I missing out tools that can boost my typing and get me home earlier? I was very optimistic when I started the first Google search looking for the optimal typing assistance productivity tool. Unfortunately I haven’t found any relevant solutions…
So what do you do when you can’t find a proper solution? I decided create one…
A few years later, Lightkey turned from a small side project into a real mission; A mission to make the typing experience much more productive than what most of us have learned to accept. A mission which is a paradigm shift – from typing every character of every word manually (as we have been doing for the past 150 years) – to typing closer to the speed of our mind. A mission to make typing more friendly and fun as I feel right now typing these very words using Lightkey.
Happy Lightkeying,
Guy Katabi