Nibbii
Turn your MacBook notch into a tiny living companion
Details
- External ID
- 1260972
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Nibbii
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Menu Bar Apps, Games
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
A pixel pet lives in your MacBook notch. Feed it, play, watch it grow up. It notices which app you're in and chimes in, without reading your screen. Free to keep. Pro ($9.99 once) unlocks all 11 pets, 22 worlds, desktop roaming and AI chat that remembers you.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- virtual pet for macbook notch
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A simple pet overlay or chat interface is easy, but creating an interactive notch overlay that tracks frontmost application state on macOS requires native Swift and macOS Accessibility/WindowServer APIs.
What it would actually take: Built using native Swift and AppKit/SwiftUI, interfacing with `NSWorkspace` to observe active applications and managing transparent non-activating windows pinned exactly to the notch area via `NSScreen` notch geometry APIs. While not massive, handling macOS permissions (Accessibility, Screen Recording policies) and native rendering around notch hardware quirks goes beyond generic web vibe-coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 126 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 127 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 267 days after the earliest competitor.
- Notch Motion: Ambient Experience · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- NotchIsland · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- OmniNotch · ph · 2026-09-25 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Notch Arcade · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- NotchPop · ph · 2026-09-24 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Notch Buddy · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Vibe Eyes · ph · 2026-09-10 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- staywith.pet · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.