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LokiDot Zoomies

Your pets, doing zoomies across your desktop

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A free, open-source desktop toy for Mac, with a Windows preview. Let Loki, Beagle, Whippet or Loki Vampire run and circle over your desktop. Copy the app’s setup prompt to a coding/image agent with a photo of your pet, then import the sprite pack it creates. PRs welcome.

PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

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
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Open Source
  • Pets
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes This is an open-source desktop pet overlay with sprite animation and an import pipeline, all doable with standard Mac and Windows windowing APIs and an image-generation prompt flow.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 212 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #40 of 213 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 212 days after the earliest competitor.

  • DeskPet: Desktop Companion · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • DeskyPaw · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • DeskSprite · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • PetPal Studio · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • DeskBub · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • DeskPet · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Vibe Eyes · ph · 2026-09-10 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.47

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