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Purrminal

A focus timer for Windows where your work feeds tiny pets

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Focus timers count your minutes but give you no reason to come back tomorrow. Purrminal turns your workday into a small game. Start a focus round and your pet naps on your Windows taskbar. Finished focus earns coins for food, toys and 16 pets to collect, all free to earn. See who focused most this week in a private group with friends. Using Claude Code, OpenCode or Pi? Each session becomes a pet that asks before acting, so you stop juggling terminals. Free for Windows.

PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views

Niche: focus and countdown timer apps · 195 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Windows
  • Productivity
  • Developer Tools

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Could you build this?

Yes A Windows focus timer with a pet on the taskbar is a small desktop app with a gamified reward loop, all standard UI and local state that AI-assisted coding can handle.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 231 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #18 of 232 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 345 days after the earliest competitor.

  • pawl · ph · 2026-10-25 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Doggy Focus · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Tamamon Focus · ph · 2026-11-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Cozy Paws · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Fluffy Friend · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Furmily.ai · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Free Tamagotchi Online for Browser · ph · 2026-10-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • DeskyPaw · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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