Eyes-follow cursor widget for playful UI feedback
Details
- External ID
- 45875425
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Eyes-follow cursor widget for playful UI feedback
- Website domain
- rlu.ai
- Launched
- Nov. 10, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.37882096069869
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Just shipped a tiny “eyes follow your cursor” widget with a live playground so you can noodle around. The hosted embed has a paid tier for production apps, but the demo is open—looking for ideas on fun interactions or motion tweaks.
Enrichment
- Theme
- teleprompters and voice recording tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cursor-following widget for ui feedback
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight client-side JavaScript/SVG widget calculating mouse coordinates and rotating SVG eye elements with basic trigonometry.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Slow load times, unclear if using compression, Subscription model for widget seems excessive, Paid tier pricing model questionable
Feature requests: Motion tweaks and adjustments, Additional framework support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 37 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 38 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- Cursor Glass · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Cursor for iOS · ph · 2026-06-30 · 614 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MouseKit · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Cursor Flux · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Vibe Eyes · ph · 2026-09-10 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CursorArc · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Glance Switch · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Now - Your Desktop Pixel Companion · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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