Tama96
A virtual pet for your desktop, terminal, or AI agent
Details
- External ID
- 47593955
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tama96
- Website domain
- tama96.com
- Launched
- March 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Inspired by the 1996 original. Your care choices shape who your pet becomes.
Enrichment
- Theme
- pet tech and virtual companions
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- virtual pet for desktop, terminal, or ai agent
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A retro virtual pet desktop/terminal app is driven by basic state machines, timers, and sprite/ASCII rendering.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 23 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 24 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 26 days after the earliest competitor.
- terminal-pet · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Tamadoggo · ph · 2026-06-08 · 190 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Tamamon · ph · 2026-07-03 · 323 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- DogLM · hn · 2026-08-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Sensipets · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Pomo Pet · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- DeskSprite · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- PetPedia AI Pet Doctor · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.