Nibbii
Turn your MacBook notch into a tiny living companion
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Menu Bar Apps
- Games
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More like this: all 184 launches in virtual desktop pets and widgets →
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 : 388 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #184 of 389 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 267 days after the earliest competitor.
- NotchBuddy · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- NotchX · ph · 2026-11-08 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- NotchiDex · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Notch Motion: Ambient Experience · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NotchDude · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NotchIsland · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- OmniNotch · ph · 2026-09-25 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Notch Radio · ph · 2026-10-06 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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