🐈 You step away for ten seconds, come back, and "dffffgggghhhjkl;;;" is now live in #general.
So I built something to stop it. Idea to live on GitHub in a day with Claude (Opus 4.8).
It’s a tiny app to catch cat-typing and suppress it, while letting humans type normally. It reads the patterns a cat makes (paws hit several keys at once, roll across neighbors, no spaces, no structure) and clamps the input before it goes anywhere. The moment you start typing like a person again, it lets go.
There's also a live demo where you can try to type like a cat and watch it fight back. Bring your own cat. Or just mash the keys 😁
https://miladsafarzadeh1.github....
About PawPause on Product Hunt
“Lock your keyboard and prevent cats from causing chaos”
PawPause launched on Product Hunt on June 2nd, 2026 and earned 133 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. A tiny macOS menu bar app that detects when your cat is on the keyboard and pauses input system-wide. 100% on-device. Open source. Free.
On the analytics side, PawPause competes within Open Source, Pets, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 126.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PawPause performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PawPause?
PawPause was hunted by Milad Safarzadeh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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