petex
Standalone macOS and Windows desktop pets with Codex pet imports.
Details
- External ID
- 1370258311
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- petex
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 39
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.776325903151422
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop virtual pets for macos and windows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Desktop companion pet applications are standard GUI programs using transparent desktop windows with sprite animations, well within standard vibe-coding capabilities in Electron, Tauri, or Flutter.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 880 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #224 of 881 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- terminal-pet · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Pet Reminder · hn · 2026-07-06 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Open-Pet-Office · github · 2026-09-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Muse-desktop-pet · github · 2026-09-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- A pet link saver OSS project that keeps growing · hn · 2026-01-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- pymacos · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Vanilla OS 3 Reunion · hn · 2026-08-24 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- milk · github · 2026-09-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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