Vibe Eyes
Put your pets in your macOS menu bar
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I miss my dog when I am at my desk all day. So now he lives in my menu bar. Drop in a photo and Vibe Eyes turns your own pet into a tiny animated avatar up there. It follows your cursor, blinks at you, winks when you click and looks up when you have been away. Small stuff, but you catch yourself glancing up and smiling. Eleven pets built in, free. Making your own is a $14.99 one-time unlock plus your own AI key. No subscription, no backend, your photo never touches my server.
PH · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 86 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Pets
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 184 launches in virtual desktop pets and widgets →
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight macOS menu bar utility built in SwiftUI that tracks global mouse cursor position, updates sprite eye rotation mathematics, and makes basic LLM image API calls for character generation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 384 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 385 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- DeskBub · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Mocha Casa Desktop Pets · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Nibbii · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Paw-Paw · ph · 2026-10-08 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MeowOut · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- DeskSprite · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PetPal Studio · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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