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Hamdori

A tiny 3D hamster that lives on your desktop

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A 3D golden hamster who lives in a corner of your Mac or Windows desktop. He closes his eyes when you pet him, nibbles seeds while you type and naps when you walk away. Focus timer, toys and a file drawer too. No monitoring permissions, one-time purchase.

PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 72 upvotes (top 2%) · 1 view

Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Productivity

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Could you build this?

Yes A 3D animated desktop pet with a timer and simple file storage can be built with a 3D or WebGL engine in an Electron or native desktop wrapper, without monitoring permissions.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 136 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #6 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Pongdari · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • DeskyPaw · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • DeskPet · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Mushroom · ph · 2026-10-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • WUKO for Mac · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • staywith.pet · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Boltori · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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