Shimeji Whiskbyte
An animated browser cat that plays, reacts, and naps
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Bring a playful companion to your Chrome pages. Shimeji Whiskbyte walks, runs, follows your cursor, plays with a ball, and curls up to sleep. Pet, feed, drag, and care for your animated cat with built-in controls. Settings and care state stay on your device, and you can hide it anytime.
PH · launched Nov 14, 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
- Hobby / open-source project
- Cats
- Pets
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More like this: all 184 launches in virtual desktop pets and widgets →
Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that animates a sprite over web pages, with local storage for care state, is a small and standard extension project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #78 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shimeji & GIF Interactive Browser Pets · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DeskPet: Desktop Companion · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- moji.pet · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Pawse · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- NapDog · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Pixel Cat · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cat Paws: Cute Paw Surprise · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DeskPet · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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