Sticky Jelly
A soft jelly creature that lives on your Mac desktop
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A soft-body creature that lives on your Mac desktop. Fling it, stick it to the edges, hold it to talk. Take a bite of anything on screen and it tells you what matters. Works from your phone too. Free for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 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
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial The physics-based creature animation and a native Mac app are doable with AI assistance, but on-screen 'bite' understanding and phone sync add harder pieces that need native platform and vision expertise.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app in Swift/AppKit with a transparent always-on-top window, a soft-body physics renderer, and screen capture under macOS permissions. Content understanding would call a vision LLM on captured regions, and phone access needs a companion iOS app with a sync backend. Signing, notarization, and macOS-specific screen capture and privacy handling require native Apple platform experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 232 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #107 of 233 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 236 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pudding · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Munchy Mates · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Mushroom · ph · 2026-10-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Sticky Dock · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Mochi · ph · 2026-09-28 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PebbletsIO · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PixelClaw · ph · 2026-03-19 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Jelly Munch · ph · 2026-11-11 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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