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MagButton™ Fidget
A new class of button. Patent-pending magnetic fidget.
A new class of button. MagButton replaces the spring inside every button you've ever pressed with magnets. The result isn't just a click, it's a snap. Clean, sharp, and honestly one of the most satisfying tactile sensations I've ever felt. I machined the body from solid aluminum and anodized it. Out on Kickstarter + full Youtube video explaining the story behind the mechanism.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ricky, a hardware inventor based in Vancouver. I quit my job to rebuild the button from scratch.
That sounds dramatic, but here's the thing: every button you've ever pressed works the same way. A spring/dome compresses, stores energy, releases it. That's been the design for over a century. I kept thinking: what if you replaced the spring with magnets?
MagButton is what happened. Instead of spring compression, two opposing magnets create the actuation force. When you press through the snap point, the field flips and the button returns itself. The result is a sensation that's hard to describe until you feel it, not a click, a snap. Instantaneous. Sharp. Kind of addictive.
The Fidget is the first product built around this mechanism. CNC-machined aluminum, Type II anodize, no plastic. I designed it to be something you actually want to hold, dense, satisfying, built to last.
But the fidget is really a funding vehicle. The end goal is putting this mechanism inside real hardware, waterproof buttons for marine, medical, and industrial applications where springs corrode, fail, and get contaminated. No seals. Fewer parts. Same snap.
I've been building this solo for two years.
This Kickstarter is how it goes from prototype to real.
About MagButton™ Fidget on Product Hunt
“A new class of button. Patent-pending magnetic fidget.”
MagButton™ Fidget was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #84 on the daily leaderboard. A new class of button. MagButton replaces the spring inside every button you've ever pressed with magnets. The result isn't just a click, it's a snap. Clean, sharp, and honestly one of the most satisfying tactile sensations I've ever felt. I machined the body from solid aluminum and anodized it. Out on Kickstarter + full Youtube video explaining the story behind the mechanism.
On the analytics side, MagButton™ Fidget competes within Hardware, Crowdfunding, Product Hunt, YouTube and Design — topics that collectively have 128.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how MagButton™ Fidget performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted MagButton™ Fidget?
MagButton™ Fidget was hunted by Ricky Zhang. 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.
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