Show HN: Hotkey Cheatsheet – keyboard shortcuts for 134 apps (hotkeycheatsheet.com)
I kept losing time looking up keyboard shortcuts. Not dramatically — just the slow accumulation of opening a tab, landing on the wrong page, finding a forum post from 2018, and locating the right shortcut four minutes later. Annoying enough to build something.
hotkeycheatsheet.com is a searchable reference: 134 apps, 24,126 shortcuts, organized by category. Filter by OS (Windows, macOS, Linux) and search by app name, action, or partial key combo — "ctrl k" works, so does "cmd shift".
I tried to keep it fast and single-purpose. Whether that actually worked is what I'm most curious about — happy to hear what feels off or missing.
Stack: Next.js, PostgreSQL, Vercel.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadI keep running into the same issue — I know a shortcut exists, but end up breaking my flow to search for it, usually ending up on some outdated forum thread.
One thing I’m curious about: have you thought about making this accessible outside the browser?
Something like a small background tool (similar to Keypirinha / Ditto) that you can trigger with a shortcut and instantly search shortcuts for the app you're currently using.
I feel like that would make it much more “in the flow”, since you wouldn’t have to context-switch to a website.