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CATCHIVE

Turn your pet photos into a tiny, living farm

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Turn photos of your pets into a tiny, living farm. CATCHIVE cuts out the subjects you capture, lets you name and collect them, and brings them together in a little world where they wander around. Mix pets with friends and favorite objects, make playful combinations, and decorate your farm. A photo playground for iPhone, built by a solo developer.

PH · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • iOS
  • Pets
  • Photo & Video

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Could you build this?

Yes It uses standard background removal models (like segment-anything or rembg) and places the extracted sprites into a lightweight 2D canvas/Phaser game world.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #248 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 184 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Snappit · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Petiction · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Cutie Parlor · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Spa Day Pets · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • GrowPet: Virtual Pet Game · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • PetPlus · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • PawPlusMe · Pet Companion · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Lovino · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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