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TheKey.Company welcomes Mintlodica as COO

Susan Lin (Mintlodica) joins TheKey.Company as Chief Operating Officer.  "I am absolutely stoked to have Mint on board!" says Jason, CEO and President. "Mint has proven her mettle over the past year. We've worked together with just her spare time and TKC has grown from a solo venture to a team. In the past month, we've sold more products than all of 2019. I cannot wait to see where we can take TKC having her fulltime."   You likely know her as the designer behind DSA Magic Girl, the set blessed by 50 Cent. Susan comes from the technology industry with 12 years of experience where she directed teams, designed software products reaching millions of users, and gave public talks. As Mintlodica, she's created watercolor,...

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TKC and COVID-19

Hi guys, it’s been a crazy few months. First, the global pandemic continues to rage on. TKC is headquartered in the Detroit area, which is particularly impacted. Things started to snowball once we hosted the Group Buy for Tangerine Switches. It’s been surreal to say the least. We’ve witnessed first-hand on the multi-layered impact Coronavirus has had on TKC as a company:Importing goodsCoronavirus has impacted all of our product shipments. This includes both products manufactured in Europe and Asia. The pandemic has affected global labor forces and customs are also taking longer than normal. We understand it’s a massive inconvenience for the community. Most of this is out of our direct control. We want to give specifics but at the...

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Keyboard University

Keyboard University is our growing resource for mechanical keyboard knowledge. Our initial articles—courses, if you will—cover introductory topics for newcomers to the hobby. If you haven't seen it yet, take a look: 🎓 Keyboard University →   Why did we make this? Keyboards can be a rabbit hole that’s hard to explain. It’s a keyboard, and people have a lot of opinions about every single part of that keyboard. They spend more money on keyboards that have fewer keys than a typical office keyboard available for a fraction of the price. It’s harder to quantify what makes a keyboard good in the same way you might quantify computer part specs. What’s the big deal? We started Keyboard University because we...

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A message from the TKC team

We called an emergency meeting at TKC, and we heard you loud and clear.  We are excited about the products we create and your excitement motivates us to be better. Here are the facts: We don’t want you to pay scalper prices. We don’t want you to be waiting forever without a timeline. We don’t want people against the community taking advantage of you. So here’s what we’re doing: We have taken immediate action on suspicious orders. For transparency, we had 441 orders totaling 48k switches. The average was 108 switches per order. And roughly 25 orders had 200+ switches. Again, we already took action on any suspicious orders. We have now opened a Group Buy! We opened a Tangerine...

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Introducing: TKC X C³Equalz Fruit Switches

Community favorite Tangerine Switches are now a part of a family...  We are excited to introduce Fruit Switches which includes three all-new switches: Tangerine Switches: Linear, available in Light (62g) and Dark (67g) NEW! Kiwi Switches: Tactile in 67g featuring a T1 stem NEW! Dragonfruit Switches: Progressive Linear in 70g Tactile switch NEW! Blackberry Switches: Clicky in 72g (Aristotle clone) Kiwi and Dragonfruit of the Fruit Switches family will be coming this summer with Blackberry arriving at a later date, but fret not Tangerine Switches fans, we will be restocking an ample amount on the TKC website this month. Stay tuned on our Discord, Twitter, and Instagram for the date!   Updated December 11, 2020.

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