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staywith.pet

Your pet, in 3D, on your Mac

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Download the app, add a few photos of your cat or dog, and see them in 3D in under ten minutes. Then they live on your Mac: walking the Dock, napping on your windows.

PH · launched Sep 30, 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
  • Horizontal
  • Content generation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Dogs
  • Cats
  • Pets

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Could you build this?

No This requires photogrammetry/3D Gaussian splatting from arbitrary pet photos, automated 3D mesh rigging and pet animation, coupled with a native macOS application overlaying the desktop environment.

What it would actually take: The backend needs a photogrammetry/image-to-3D pipeline (such as InstantMesh or Tripo3D) capable of generating clean quad meshes and textures from uncalibrated pet photos, followed by automated quadruped rigging and skinning. The desktop client requires native Swift/Metal or Unity development interacting with macOS Accessibility and WindowServer APIs to render transparent, interactive dock/window-climbing animations.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 430 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #371 of 431 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.

  • DeskyPaw · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • DeskPet · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Nibbii · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • MyPawPlan.app · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Pawse · ph · 2026-10-10 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • My Dock Buddies · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • PetPal Studio · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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