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A UK vendor node rendered as a small coral-outlined hub in the upper canvas, with roughly a dozen thin threads fanning outward and downward to a loose scatter of small rounded rectangles — some labeled as regional keycap-run nodes, one or two distinguished with a heavier coral outline to mark the vendor's own house-kit projects — over a warm-grey map-like backdrop suggesting UK/EU distribution.

Prototypist and the multi-project vendor model

Prototypist rarely carries just one thing at a time. The UK vendor's tracker signal has spent 2026 rising and falling with how many group buys it's running at once — and in July 2026 it's climbing again on the strength of its own pipeline rather than someone else's.

thockJul 18, 20266 min read

Centered vendor hub — a plum-filled keyboard-shaped node with an inner diamond mark — in the upper-mid canvas, with five arrows fanning out beneath it to a low arc of five product-variant board silhouettes (each a small rounded-rect keyboard outline with faint key-dot rows and tiny config-tag lines beneath); a single plum sparkline rises left-to-right along the bottom of the canvas, peaking at the right edge with a focal dot.

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When customs became vendor-first

From 2018 through 2022 the typical custom shipped through one host vendor and a fan of regional proxies; by 2026 the baseline custom is a configurator on a vendor's own storefront. Boards moved. Keycap group buys mostly didn't.

thockMay 4, 20266 min read

Editorial illustration of a 65% keyboard silhouette in translucent polycarbonate, evoking the Ikki68 Aurora's case material.

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Wuque Studio's summer update, and the Ikki68 Aurora holdover

A July 26 product-update post from Wuque Studio sent buyers back to the Ikki68 Aurora's listing page. Mammoth V2 and Promise V2 remain forum speculation, and no group buy has opened.

thockAug 10, 20267 min read

A small macro-pad silhouette — a compact 2-by-3 key cluster with a single accent key picked out in coral — rendered as a simple layout glyph against a warm dusty-rose and ochre field, in the site's vendor-piece hero-art style.

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OpenAI's first hardware is a Work Louder macro pad

Codex Micro, OpenAI's first piece of branded hardware, is a macro pad built by boutique vendor Work Louder on the bones of its $199 Creator Micro 2. It launched July 15, 2026 at $230, sold out within 24 hours, and now resells for $700-800+.

thockJul 14, 20267 min read

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