terminal-pet
A customisable animated pet that lives on top of your terminal window and reacts to your shell
Details
- External ID
- 1370161928
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- terminal-pet
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.05976172175249808
- Tags
- cli, desktop-pet, developer-tools, iterm2, macos, pet, pixel-art, swift, tamagotchi, terminal, zsh, zsh-plugin
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- animated pet companion for your terminal
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop terminal companion app can be built using Electron, Tauri, or native OS window overlays that listen to shell hooks (like zsh preexec/precmd) to animate sprites.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 424 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #414 of 425 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- petex · github · 2026-09-14 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- dripfetch · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- paw-link · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Otty · hn · 2026-06-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- animated-dock · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Pet Reminder · hn · 2026-07-06 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WebTerm · hn · 2026-01-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Desktui · hn · 2026-07-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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