About Us

Hey. I'm the person
behind WASDWORKS.

How This Started

I've been gaming on mechanical keyboards for over 8 years. Cherry MX Blues were my first love. Since then I've been through the tactile phase, the linear phase, the "I need to try every switch ever made" phase — you know how it goes.

Along the way, I probably spent more on keycaps than some people spend on their entire PC. And here's the thing that kept bugging me:

You either pay $100+ for a GMK set that takes 8 months to arrive — or you buy a $25 set from Amazon and the legends start fading in two months.

There was no middle ground. No option for people who wanted real PBT, actual dye-sublimation, solid build quality — without the group-buy-wait-forever circus.

So I stopped complaining and started making my own.

What WASDWORKS Actually Is

It's me (and a couple of friends I convinced to help) designing keycaps that I'd actually put on my own board. That means:

Real materials. No shortcuts.

PBT plastic. Dye-sublimation printing. Not ABS with a coating that wears off. Not "PBT-like" marketing copy. Actual PBT that doesn't shine after six months of daily use. The legends are dyed into the plastic — they don't rub off, they don't fade, they don't turn into ghost keys after one summer of sweaty ranked sessions.

Community-designed. Not boardroom-designed.

Most of our colorways started as Discord conversations. Someone says "what if we did a sunset orange set" and a week later there's a prototype. If real keyboard people don't hype it, it doesn't get made. Simple.

Honest pricing. No fake sales.

The price you see is what it actually costs. No "was $89, now $45" games. No "limited time offer" that's been running for six months. Just real prices for real keycaps.

Shipping that makes sense.

Free worldwide shipping. Duties and taxes paid by us at checkout — nothing extra at your door. We use IOSS for EU orders so your package clears customs fast, and you don't get hit with surprise fees.

What WASDWORKS Isn't

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A "premium luxury bespoke artisan keycap atelier" (please)

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A company that makes you wait 9 months for a group buy that might get cancelled

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A brand that hides behind "our valued customer service team" — it's just me reading your emails

Transparency Is Not a Marketing Tactic

No smoke. No mirrors.

Here's something most brands won't tell you: our keycaps are manufactured in Zhoushan, China. We work directly with the factory on quality control, material sourcing, and production standards. Nothing is dropshipped. Nothing is white-labeled. Every set is inspected before it ships.

We don't pretend to be a "heritage brand" with a hundred-year history of keycap craftsmanship. We're a small team of gamers who found good manufacturing partners and built real relationships with them.

If you want to know exactly what plastic goes into your keycaps, how the dye-sub process works, or which factory produced your set — ask. We'll tell you. That's the whole point.