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Pixel Pet

A tiny pixel desk pet that keeps you on task

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Pixel Pet is a free, open source pixel pet for your Windows desktop. Type tasks in plain language ("standup weekdays 9:30"), run a Pomodoro focus timer with streaks, see live network speed and count the AI tokens you use in Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode. One 1.8 MB exe, about 18 MB of RAM, no account, no telemetry. Five pets, five themes.

PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Windows
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • GitHub

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More like this: all 184 launches in virtual desktop pets and widgets →

Could you build this?

Yes A small open-source Windows desktop pet with a task parser, Pomodoro timer, network-speed readout, and local log parsing for AI token counts is a native desktop app that AI-assisted coding can produce in days to weeks.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #34 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Bad Pixel · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • pixel-pet · github · 2026-10-02 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • lazymeow desktop pet 懒喵 桌面宠物 · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • CatCode · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Pixel Buddy · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • NotchiDex · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • DeskSprite · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Mellow · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54

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