Nomlings
a virtual pet that eats your Claude Code session's tokens
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HN · launched Jul 5, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a novelty virtual pet CLI or desktop companion that reads token usage statistics from Claude Code logs or API sessions and animates a pet accordingly.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3345 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2395 of 3346 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 248 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wallfacer · hn · 2026-08-06 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- deobf · github · 2026-11-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Clawk · hn · 2026-07-13 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Agent-pd · hn · 2026-06-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- token-arcade · github · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Selvum · hn · 2026-08-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ContextSaver · github · 2026-09-16 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- deep_dog_2 · github · 2026-09-12 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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