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Boltori

A thrifty little chipmunk who lives on your PC

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Boltori is a hand-drawn chipmunk that lives on your Windows desktop. Click and it hops with both arms up, rub its belly, drag it around. Double-click and its cheeks fill up with acorns. Its eyes follow your mouse. It never reads what you type and never sends anything online.

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
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Windows
  • Productivity
  • Artificial Intelligence

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Could you build this?

Yes A desktop pet with click, drag and animation reactions is a small Windows app that can be vibe-coded in a framework like Electron or C#/WPF, with the hand-drawn art as the main effort.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 86 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #14 of 87 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 228 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Mikkuri · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Mangbori · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Pongdari · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Munguri · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • DeskPet · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Ottori · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • WUKO for Mac · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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