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I’m Charles, and I made DummyPet, a cartoon dog that lives along the bottom of your Mac screen.
Most of the time it does its own thing. It wanders, sniffs around, naps when it’s tired, and now and then digs up a sock. When it wants something, a little speech bubble pops up.
You can feed it, walk it (your cursor holds the leash), give it a bath, and flick a tennis ball across your screen for fetch. The more you play with it, the more tricks it learns. There are eight. Save the backflip for last.
I really didn’t want it to get in the way, so clicks pass straight through to whatever’s behind it unless you’re touching the dog or one of its toys. It’s also small: native Swift, under 2 MB, and the dog and its barks are all drawn and synthesized in code. It never goes online either. No account, nothing tracked, the stats just live on your Mac.
One heads up: it isn’t notarized by Apple yet, so macOS will ask before the first launch. The download page walks you through it.
It’s free and open source. If you want to meet the dog before installing anything, there’s a playable one on the website.
What should it learn next? Taking trick requests 🐶
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About DummyPet on Product Hunt
“DummyPet: a very good dog for your Mac”
DummyPet was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #94 on the daily leaderboard. A playful dog that lives on your desktop. Free for macOS.
DummyPet was featured in Pets (4.7k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) and Games (99k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 35.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted DummyPet?
DummyPet was hunted by Charles Nii Adotey Allotey. 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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Charles Nii Adotey Allotey
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Charles, and I made DummyPet, a cartoon dog that lives along the bottom of your Mac screen.
Most of the time it does its own thing. It wanders, sniffs around, naps when it’s tired, and now and then digs up a sock. When it wants something, a little speech bubble pops up.
You can feed it, walk it (your cursor holds the leash), give it a bath, and flick a tennis ball across your screen for fetch. The more you play with it, the more tricks it learns. There are eight. Save the backflip for last.
I really didn’t want it to get in the way, so clicks pass straight through to whatever’s behind it unless you’re touching the dog or one of its toys. It’s also small: native Swift, under 2 MB, and the dog and its barks are all drawn and synthesized in code. It never goes online either. No account, nothing tracked, the stats just live on your Mac.
One heads up: it isn’t notarized by Apple yet, so macOS will ask before the first launch. The download page walks you through it.
It’s free and open source. If you want to meet the dog before installing anything, there’s a playable one on the website.
What should it learn next? Taking trick requests 🐶