Co-hunting something so physically beautiful with @conduit_design.
He called it “the wildest keyboard I have ever seen”🤯
At 4.75mm, Altar II barely looks like a mechanical keyboard. It sits almost as flat as a Magic Keyboard, without the usual height that comes with mechanical switches.
The whole product is built around fitting a real mechanical typing experience into that almost impossibly thin frame. The switches still have 1.8mm of travel, and the engineering gets obsessive enough that even the USB-C housing had to be custom-made because normal ones were thicker than the keyboard.
It’s rare to see a hardware project nail the industrial design and acoustics this well!
About Altar II on Product Hunt
“The mechanical keyboard Apple never made”
Altar II launched on Product Hunt on August 25th, 2026 and earned 122 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Shockingly thin, fully mechanical. Altar II combines a superlative typing experience with an unbelievable design.
On the analytics side, Altar II competes within Custom Keyboards and Hardware — topics that collectively have 13.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Altar II performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Altar II?
Altar II was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Zac Zuo
Hi everyone!
Co-hunting something so physically beautiful with @conduit_design.
He called it “the wildest keyboard I have ever seen”🤯
At 4.75mm, Altar II barely looks like a mechanical keyboard. It sits almost as flat as a Magic Keyboard, without the usual height that comes with mechanical switches.
The whole product is built around fitting a real mechanical typing experience into that almost impossibly thin frame. The switches still have 1.8mm of travel, and the engineering gets obsessive enough that even the USB-C housing had to be custom-made because normal ones were thicker than the keyboard.
It’s rare to see a hardware project nail the industrial design and acoustics this well!